According to Beverage Marketing Corporation, every man, woman and child in the United States ingests 192 gallons of liquid a year. That translates to about 3.7 gallons per week or two liters a day. Of that amount, approximated 14 percent are alcoholic beverages. Of the rest, carbonated sodas, at 28 percent, have the lead but are dropping slightly in popularity.  They are giving way, in part, to water, which now represents 11 percent of U.S. liquid consumption, about the same amount as milk consumption, and about the same amount as coffee and tea combined.

The marketing appeals for bottled water – purer, safer, healthier – are fundamentally inaccurate. The reality is that public tap water is remarkably safe

25 percent of bottled water comes right from the tap.

it cost $6.82 a gallon, more than 3,000 times the cost of regular water

one-third did not meet state or bottled water industry standards for bacteria or contaminants

we spend

$10 billion per year in the United States on bottled water