- Eastern Massachusetts Tap Water/Quabbin
- Comes from the Quabbin reservoir and is tested daily
- If water is not up to standards, customers must be notified
- The Quabbin can hold a 5 year supply of water
- One of the reservoirs with the highest quality water in the world
- MWRA won best tasting water in New England twice in the last decade
- Quezalguaque Water
- Quezalguaque is Brookline’s sister city
- 4 in 12 wells contain microbial contamination
- Pesticides have been found in some wells.
- Water in Nicaragua unsafe due to mining/agricultural chemical contamination
- Bottled Water and Companies
- Over 40% of bottled water is originally from a tap source, not a natural spring.
- Bottled water is less safe than tap water
- Bottled Water is 300 times more expensive than tap
- Took 32-54 million gallons of crude oil to make all plastic bottles last year (Independent)
- Plastic Pollution/Recycling
- Globally, 500 Billion water bottles bought annually. (65 bottles per capita) (Forbes)
- 315 bottles bought annually per capita in the US (Forbes)
- 8% of all waste in the oceans is plastic bottles.
- Even recycled plastic often ends up in landfills.
- Only 7% of plastic bottles are recycled in the world
- Other Water Facts
- 663 million people in the world live without clean water (1 in 10 people)
- 480 Billion plastic bottles bought in 2016 (110 billion from coca cola)
- Nearly all bottled water has plastic particles in the water
Citations:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5HD12yRPRiGmjm_iq32RTtCynWhjmbP23g7cjEXS7U/edit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B44PzUMPF6JKG-_XNqJhsP_SSVpRi9ex/view
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/safe-drinking-water-in-massachusettshttp://www.mwra.state.ma.us/annual/waterreport/2010results/metro/brookline.pdf
http://www.mwra.com/annual/waterreport/2018results/metro/brookline.pdfhttps://borgenproject.org/water-quality-in-nicaragua/#:~:targetText=According%20to%20WaterAid%2C%20an%20organization,access%20to%20improved%20water%20sources.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/about/live-healthy/tap-water-vs-bottled-water
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624156334/nestl-offered-permit-to-continue-taking-water-from-california-stream
https://www.commondreams.org/dasani-nothing-but-tap-water
https://www.dailyinfographic.com/10-reasons-to-use-a-reusable-water-bottle
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/million-plastic-bottles-minute-91-not-recycled/#6db6a61292cc
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html
https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5HD12yRPRiGmjm_iq32RTtCynWhjmbP23g7cjEXS7U/edit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B44PzUMPF6JKG-_XNqJhsP_SSVpRi9ex/view
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/safe-drinking-water-in-massachusettshttp://www.mwra.state.ma.us/annual/waterreport/2010results/metro/brookline.pdf
http://www.mwra.com/annual/waterreport/2018results/metro/brookline.pdfhttps://borgenproject.org/water-quality-in-nicaragua/#:~:targetText=According%20to%20WaterAid%2C%20an%20organization,access%20to%20improved%20water%20sources.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/about/live-healthy/tap-water-vs-bottled-water
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624156334/nestl-offered-permit-to-continue-taking-water-from-california-stream
https://www.commondreams.org/dasani-nothing-but-tap-water
https://www.dailyinfographic.com/10-reasons-to-use-a-reusable-water-bottle
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/million-plastic-bottles-minute-91-not-recycled/#6db6a61292cc
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html
https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html