6 Undeniable Reasons to Stop Buying Bottled Water
Do you consider drinking bottled water to be the best option?
Yes, of course, it is safe to buy a sealed bottle of water on your way somewhere. However, depending on bottled water for daily use is not such a wise decision.
Experts say you should stop buying bottled water for your regular day-to-day life. There can be several undeniable reasons for this.
Let’s see.
1. Wastage of Money
Do you know that the market for bottled water has expanded to an extreme extent? The market has become so big that an association International Bottled Water Association, has emerged to maintain proper quality control.
Today, you will find bottled water options from different brands coming up. Many aerated drink brands like Coke and Pepsi have also jumped into the market of bottled water. Many more are coming up, noticing the expansion in the market.
From roadside shops, and dhabas to superstores in big malls, all have their shelves stacked up with different packaged drinking water brands. It shows the huge demand and high profitability of packaged drinking water businesses.
The bottled water business might be a good deal for all the companies involved. But can you say the same for yourself?
One liter of packaged bottled water costs around 20 rupees, and the bigger 20 liters can cost around 75-80 rupees. Even if we consider the price of the 20-liters can, every liter of bottled water costs around 4 rupees.
If you are a family of 5 with an average daily requirement of 20 liters of drinking water, your monthly spending on bottled drinking water would be 2,400 rupees.
On the other hand, if you have an RO purifier, the average cost of a liter of purified water is around 50 paise to 1 rupee.
That means, installing a water purifier can save you up to 75 – 90%.
You can save a good amount of money if you use a good Reverse Osmosis system at home to drink pure and safe water.
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2. Is Your Bottled Water as Pure as You Believe?
Are you sure that the bottled water you are drinking is purified and safe for drinking?
Many not-so-popular brands filter municipal water and fill them up in bottles. They do not even care to treat it properly to remove the impurities and hardness of the water.
There are many instances when such brands/people do not even purify the tap water and pack the water into the bottles directly from a tap or borewell. As per an old news report, there were as many as 10,000 illegal bottled water units in Delhi-NCR.
Unfortunately, the situation is the same or even worse in most parts of India.
In such a case, don’t you think it is much safer to install a water purifier at your home and drink clean and safe water?
3. Concerns Related to Contamination
There is a general perception among common people that bottled water is 100% safe.
What do you think?
For bottled water to be 100% safe, brands are required to follow stringent norms. Unfortunately, not all bottled brands care to follow any of these. Forget about following all.
A major study, conducted across nine countries and published on March 14, 2018, indicates that most bottled water brands contain microplastics.
Researchers tested 250 bottles of 11 global bottled water brands in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States. The researchers found plastic in 93% of the samples tested. And the worrying part is, that the water bottles tested were all from leading brands like Aquafina, Evian, Dasani, Bisleri, Nestle Pure Life, etc.
Most of the plastic found in water bottles resulted from the industrial process of bottling the water.
The extent of the health risk posed by such contamination is not yet clear. Some researchers believe “There are connections to increases in certain kinds of cancer to lower sperm count to increases in conditions like ADHD and autism.”
That’s quite shocking.
And that’s the world’s leading brand of bottled water. Can you imagine what all could be there in those seemingly clean water bottles of local brands?
4. Harmful to the Environment
You might find on the bottle labels about recycling bottle plastic. But this is only possible when you take the initiative to dispose of the plastic bottles in the right place responsibly. Not everyone does the same, and many plastic bottles pile up in different places as garbage and lead to damage to the environment.
Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are bought every minute.
Data from Euromonitor International shows that around 480 billion plastic bottles were sold in the year 2018.
“It’s more urgent now than ever before to make plastic water bottles a thing of the past.”
If you collected all the plastic bottles sold in 2018 at a place, the pile would be higher than the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Most of these single-use plastic bottles end up in landfills, water bodies, and oceans. Plastic pollution is one of the biggest threats to humans and animals.
Be responsible. Stop buying bottled water.
5. Harmful to Your Health
Ancient Asian experts have always preached the benefits of drinking water in metals such as silver and Copper due to their antibacterial properties. On the contrary, plastic bottles have chemicals such as BPA and phthalates that can be harmful when mixed with water. These chemicals can cause several health conditions related to prostate glands, the brain, the fetus, and others.
Of course, consuming water from packaged bottles once in a while during emergency times is completely perfect. However regular usage of this plastic bottled water can cause severe health issues over time.
It becomes even more severe in the case of cheap and non-branded packaged water.
Most of these more affordable alternatives play with your health as they employ inferior standards of purification and packaging. The quality and safety of both the packaged water and the plastic bottles are highly questionable. Most of these cheap brands use non-food-grade plastic bottles, which can be very harmful to your health in the long run.
That’s why we recommend using a home water purifier for clean and safe drinking water. If possible, you should also replace all those fancy plastic fridge bottles with glass or stainless-steel bottles.
6. The Tasteless Taste
Do you feel the bottled water you bought is tasteless?
You are not alone.
Bottled water feels tasteless because it is devoid of the minerals naturally found in drinking water.
In some cases, bottled water does not taste good. Lesser-known and local brands sometimes treat the water with chlorine or other bleach options, leaving a peculiar smell and taste.
Also, though most commonly bottled water is known as mineral water, it is not always that the water will have minerals.
A sound Reverse Osmosis system with a TDS Controller or mineral cartridge can quickly solve this problem. You get clean, purified water that tastes good. Some RO purifiers add back the essential minerals lost during purification, some make the water more alkaline, and a few can add Copper to the purified water.
Conclusion
Water is an integral part of your health. It is essential to drink clean and safe water to stay healthy and free from diseases. But drinking bottled water is not the only solution. There can be several reasons not to rely upon bottled water.
A much more intelligent solution is to install a water purifier at your home or office. A water purifier solves most of the problems discussed above.
