The True Cost of Bottled Water

February 26, 2007 @ 07:11 AM Filed in: Big Ideas
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Sustainability Engineer and MBA Pablo Päster, over at TriplePundit.com, has calculated that

a single 1kg bottle of Fiji water consumes 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emits 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds) during its manufacture and transport.


Check out the original article here.

Check out Treehugger.com's report on the article here.

Yikes!