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Bottled Water: wholesale price/gallon in 2011: $1.21 (http://www.bottledwater.org/economics/real-cost-of-bottled-water )
Poland Springs home delivery: $1.93/gallon (http://www.polandspring.com/#/home ).
Crystal Springs home delivery: $1.20/gallon (http://www.water.com/shopping/budget-plan-select-quantity.jsf ).
"I decided to do a little math to see exactly how much the cost of bottled water purchased on the street compares to what comes out of the tap in New York City. By my calculations, filling a 16.9-ounce bottle with genuine NYC tap water costs about 1.3 tenths of a cent, compared to $1 to buy bottled water (95 cents if you return the bottle for the deposit, which, based on the number of bottles I see in the city's trash bins, not many people do.) If you were to refill a 16.9-ounce bottle with city tap water every day for a year, you'd pay 48 cents. Let me repeat that: That's 48 cents for the entire year! (Okay, it might be a little higher if you run the water until it gets cold.) In comparison, buy a $1 bottle of water every day, and you'd pay $346, sans the deposit. That's more than 700 times the cost of tap...."
--Anthony Giorgianni, July 12, 2011, http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/07/a-dollar-for-a-bottle-of-water-what-would-martians-think.html
Photos by Anthony F. Chiffolo
3 comments:
I paid $87 for 6732 gallons. This comes out to $.007 a gallon. In Kansas City
Great post, thank you.
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I appreciate the focus of your blog post on the real cost of bottled water. While it may seem convenient to grab a bottle of water on the go, we often overlook the hidden costs associated with this seemingly harmless choice.
First and foremost, there is the environmental impact. The production, transportation, and disposal of plastic water bottles contribute to pollution and the growing issue of plastic waste in our oceans and landfills. It takes hundreds of years for these bottles to decompose, causing immense harm to our ecosystems and wildlife.
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