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Water bottle facts

90% of the cost of a water bottle is in the bottle, lid, and label.

Disposable bottled water companies are being sued in 5 US states for inappropriate over-pumping of water from natural resources.

Bottling companies may pump up to 500 gallons per minute, or even more, out of each well they tap, and many wells run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

8 out of 10 water bottles become landfill waste. It takes 700-1,000 years before a plastic bottle begins to decompose in a landfill.

Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That's about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle. - National Geographic

Water access facts

The average distance walked by women in Africa in search of water is 6 kilometers a day - UNFPA (2002), Water: A critical resource.

Water quality facts

The water crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through weapons.

We and the surface of our planet are 3/4 water.

2008 is the UN International Year of Sanitation

4,900 children perish each day from diarrhea. Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease.

Most illnesses in the world are caused by fecal matter in water.

Half of the world's hospital beds at any given time are occupied by patients suffering from a water-borne disease.