Thanks. The CAI report is here http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/sites/default/files/Getting-States-Off-the-Bottle-2nd-ed.pdf and says:
The production of bottled water is much more energy-intensive than the production of public drinking water. On a national level, it is estimated that producing and transporting bottles for the U.S. bottled water market requires the energy equivalent of as much as 54 million barrels of oil each year. This is enough oil to fuel roughly three million U.S. cars for a year and is as much as 2000 times the energy it takes to produce and distribute tap water.
This references the detailed report at http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/4/1/014009/erl91014009.pdf
Tim, I suggest you contact Corporate Accountability International, who did the study, for more detailed information on their data and other information they referenced/ I worked off of their press release, which did not provide the details you seek.
Anne Landman
I corrected the error in the piece.
Anne Landman
Are you people out of your friggin minds? Amazing. Truly sad actually.
Anne,
Thanks. The CAI report is here http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/sites/default/files/Getting-States-Off-the-Bottle-2nd-ed.pdf and says:
The production of bottled water is much more energy-intensive than the production of public drinking water. On a national level, it is estimated that producing and transporting bottles for the U.S. bottled water market requires the energy equivalent of as much as 54 million barrels of oil each year. This is enough oil to fuel roughly three million U.S. cars for a year and is as much as 2000 times the energy it takes to produce and distribute tap water.
This references the detailed report at http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/4/1/014009/erl91014009.pdf
Tim, I suggest you contact Corporate Accountability International, who did the study, for more detailed information on their data and other information they referenced/ I worked off of their press release, which did not provide the details you seek.
Anne Landman
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