"Every second of every day, a thousand Americans buy and drink a plastic bottle of commercially produced water, adding up to 85 million bottles a day. And for each one consumed in the US, four more are consumed around the world. The book Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water by Peter Gleick starts out with these statistics.
"I believe that bottled water is a symptom of a larger set of issues: the long-term decay of our public water systems, inequitable access to safe water around the world, our susceptibility to advertising and marketing, and a society trained from birth the buy, consume, and throw away," writes Gleick".
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