Day 5: Hydration

Fun fact:

There are almost 800 different brands of bottled water for sale in the United States.

WOW!

That makes me wonder how many bottles of water are sold in a year, and at what cost?

Oh wait, it's a fun fact day - I can answer those questions. According to the NY state department of Environmental Conservation:

•Single-serve bottled water is the fastest growing beverage of choice in the United States.
• Americans purchased nearly 31 billion bottles of water in 2006 and spend $11 billion on bottled water every year.
• Nearly 2.5 billion bottles of water a year are sold in New York alone—stacked up end to end, they’d reach the moon.

Now, I'll grant you, there are places in this country that you do not want to drink the water. But seriously, I think this is crazy. What a waste of resources, both in terms of garbage produced and money wasted.

In honor of Earth day this week, I am going to make a pledge to buy as little bottled water as I can. I will carry my Nalgene bottle with me at all times, and in the event I do buy bottled water, I will be certain to recycle the bottle.

**report for yesterday.

Well, I guess yesterday has to be marked as my first failure. It's not that I didn't get nine glasses of water in, it's that I don't know if I got nine glasses in. It's actually going to be harder to keep track of my glasses of water than it is going to be to actually drink them. I need a strategy...I will have to think of one. Any suggestions?