Would you be interested if I told you that by making a small change in your habits you could help save the planet? Would you also be interested in I told you that the same small change could save you $1,400.00 per year? According to an article in the New York Times, it is so. 
“Those eight daily glasses of water you're supposed to drink for good health? They will cost you $0.00135 -- about 49 cents a year -- if you take it from a New York City tap.”
“Those eight daily glasses of water you're supposed to drink for good health? They will cost you $0.00135 -- about 49 cents a year -- if you take it from a New York City tap.”
Or "you could spend 2,900 times as much, roughly $1,400 yearly, by drinking bottled water. For the extra money, they say, you get the added responsibility for piling on to the nation's waste heap and encouraging more of the industrial emissions that are heating up the planet.” NY Times
So once you have saved the $$, think of the other ways you are helping to support a cleaner environment and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
And how about this, “1.5 million barrels of oil are used every year to manufacture disposable plastic water bottles for the U.S. market. That's enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year…” The Daily Green
To calculate how much money you can save by using tap or filtered water, go to NewDream.org and use their nifty bottled water cost calculator. Then sit back and enjoy thinking of that extra cash and the good you are doing for the planet.
Photo courstey of NYTimes.com, AP Photo/Larry Crowe
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