The Facts About Bottled Water

This is just a quickie, I have something far more SCUBA marketing related in the works for later, but it’s a topic that is important to me.

I grew up in a house where we switched to bottled water when our part of town was moved to a different water supply source. I drank bottled water for years. Then, a few years back, I started learning about how bad bottled water is for the environment and made the switch.

My local water tastes like it’s about 1/4 chlorine and 1/4 bleach, so I still use a filter, but no more plastic bottles for me. Check out this graphic that describes the problem:

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