Tuesday, September 11, 2007

our water

326 million trillion gallons of water is constantly recycling on our planet at all times.

  • This water evaporates from the ocean, travels through the air, rains down on the land and then flows back to the ocean.
  • We can’t drink ninety-eight percent of the worlds 326 million trillion gallons of water, due to the simple fact that is fully saturated with salt!

But have you ever wondered what is it that separates us humans from the remaining two percent of potable water?

The answer, you may find surprising.

The answer is plastic.

The typical Americans thirst is quenched each day by local tap water that has been filtered and branded with a fancy logo, such as coca cola’s dansi or pepsi’s aquafina.

What would we do with out these suppliers?

Perish the thought of using a ceramic mug or paper cup.

We need these bottles of water.

We need them so we can quench our communal thirst,

We need them fresh off the shelf.

And we need to throw them out when we done.

We need to continue the cycle, refining crude oil from the ground, and forming plastics.

And we need to throw these single use bottles on the ground.

So new bottles will grow.

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