Save Money with Water Filtration – Non Green Bottled Water
Posted by easy eco blog
Noticed a couple water delivery trucks on the street and wondered why people would waste money on Water Delivery services. This is definitely a big business and generates lots of revenue for companies. We have covered how unnecessary bottled water is in the past.
Water.com even touts how green they are: “And, with reusable recyclable bottles and hybrid vehicles in our delivery fleet, we make it easier for you to be environmentally-friendly.”
They even offer a Water Filtration system. – “If bottled water coolers do not fit your needs, we offer a variety of quality drinking water systems.”
Water delivery trucks use lots of fuel and generate pollution. Plastic Gallon Water Cooler bottles require lots of resources to make and recycle.
Buying bottled water and schlepping it home is just as wasteful and costly. Paying $1 for a 20 oz bottle adds up fast.
Water in most locales is safe to drink. Check the EPA’s site to verify. If your water has impurities that need to be removed for taste or chemicals like arsenic, lead, perchlorate, or atrazine, install a good water filter. We have an Everpure water filter system that cost a couple hundred dollars and works well. Just change its filter every so many months.
Amazon sells low cost water filters from $15. Choose from pitcher style ones from Pur or Brita or faucet mounted models. Save hundreds of dollars over bottled water each year. There is no guarantee that the bottled water is better than filtered water you can generate. Environmental Working Group has a page on helping you choose water filters.
Save money by just saying NO to Water Delivery and Bottled water.
If you use a Brita water filter system, make sure you recycle the filter.
Related posts:
- Bottled Water Toxicity and Money Waste
- Ways to Save Money and be green
- Save Money, Be Green, Bring Your Own Lunch
- Save water in your Toilet
- BPA from Water Bottles
- BPA Free Water Bottle
- Solar Pool Heaters – Save Energy, Swim More Often
- Ways to Save Energy, Money on your Energy Bill
Filed under: Conservation, Easy, Eco Friendly, Effort, Environment, Green, Health, Home, Reduce, Water | Tags: Bottled Water Delivery Service, Water Bottle Delivery, Water Filter
If you enjoyed this post, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed.
2 Responses to “Save Money with Water Filtration – Non Green Bottled Water”
Leave a Reply
Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or initials and not your business name.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:10 am
i’m sorry, but i just do not agree entirely. home delivery is wasteful, but there are alternatives!!! have you ever heard of bottle exchange programsm?? i have been a customer of a water delivery company for two years now, and i just upgraded a new model of their new water cooler/heater! i do not do their home delivery, i only use their exchangee system at my local LOWES. i am on a rampage to tell everyone to get OFF the 20 ounce bottles of water and convert to the 3/5 gallon bottles. it has changed our family’s life, and it has saved us so much money this passed year!!!! when the recession hit we had to shed our single serve bottle habit. we eventually switched to the 3/5 gall delivery and have lost weight, saved money, and now we have money to do other things we might not have before. and we look good doing it too, cause we lost all of that weight from sugary drinks!
check out Primo Water!!!! they are the best! you can order a cooler online or at most local chain retailers, but not sure about the delivery areas as we do not use it. you will have to call them to get more information. it is worth your time i think. i agree that too many people buy into the convenients hype! besides what harm does it really add when i am already out shopping for groceries for my family and i pick up two new bottles on the way home (but my husband has to come b/c they are really heavy for me!!)
June 25th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Companies selling bottled water have done a great job marketing it as healthy water, while selling it for approximately 5 cents an ounce versus tap water which costs less than 1 cent per gallon! Marketers of bottled water have convinced us that as compared to tap water, bottled water is pure, superior in taste and far more available.
So how do help change people’s perception of tap water, while also providing them with the security the masses have come to associate with bottled water?
Installing a whole house water filter or commercial water treatment system will help optimize water quality, help to minimize our reliance on natural resources, including oil used in the manufacturing and transportation of plastic water bottles, and offset our impact on the environment, reducing the generation and disposal of plastic bottles.
Diane K.