As we continue to further pollute our world, clean drinking water is quickly becoming our most precious resource. More and more people are turning to bottled water to keep themselves hydrated. Carectomy patients, who get more exercise than the car-laden masses, need more water in their daily lives. Pure Water 2 Go’s lineup of filtering bottles is an economical way to get quality drinking water when out-and-about, away from home. Plus, they represent a way to decrease your waste stream.
According to Pure Water 2 Go’s math, bottled water costs $28.71 per week, while filtering with Pure Water 2 Go would average $.86 per week.
Pure Water 2 Go offers an excellent solution to carectomy patients on the go. Their bottles feature built-in filters to turn water from a variety of sources into safe, tasty drinking water. The simplest design is a 16oz standard drinking bottle with a Level 1 filter – suitable for 40 gallons of tap water filtration. My favorites are the 16oz and 27oz sport bottle designs with Level 2 filters. These can fit into a bicycle water bottle cage, are made from a more durable plastic, and filter up to 80 gallons of water before the filters need to be replaced. For the hardcore, or those who prefer to eschew plastic all together, there’s the 30oz canteen with Level 4 filter – good enough for 200 gallons of water and a 99% reduction in contaminants.
Despite the perception that bottled water comes from “pure mountain springs,” it’s often plain old tap water which may or may not be run through a filter. Because bottled water is not regulated by the FDA in the same way that tap water is, there’s really no telling what’s in that delectable disposable bottle.
Other knocks against bottled water are the environmental damage due to shipping and the insane amount of plastic waste generated.
Only between 2 to 5% of all plastics are recycled – a large portion of the rest ends up in our oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, about 1,000 miles off the coast of San Francisco, may be the most well known plastic deposit. It’s a floating, amorphous plastic "landfill" weighing 3 million tons and covering an area twice the size of Texas.
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I posted a brief followup here: 600 lights were passed out in total over three days. Thanks for that link and have a great weekend!