About the One Bottle Project
One Bottle Project is a grass roots movement against the 'corporatization' of water in Montreal as well as the entire Quebec region. Acording to Statistics Canada, 28% of Quebec residents use bottled water as their primary source of drinking water (this is close to the national average of 30%). This number is extremely disturbing since Canada is one of the most water-rich countries in the world (it contains 9% of the world's renewable water supply), and there is no reason for any Canadian citizen to be drinking bottled water during normal daily practice. It is simply a waste to be drinking bottled water.
The consumption of bottled water encourages the privatization of water. Bottled water is a rapidly growing market and the major beverage companies are all heavily vested in it. It only makes sense. Why sell soda or juice products when you can simply bottle the filtered water from the factory! Pepsi (Aquafina) and Coca-Cola (Dasani) have admitted to doing just this. Their water is simply repackaged public drinking water, filtered and sold back to you. At prices sometimes approaching 2.50$ a litre or more, bottled water can be more expensive than gasoline!
Bottled water also causes unneeded strain on the planet's resources. The production of the bottles requires oil. The transportation causes a further need for oil. The production of the plastic requires more water than the bottle itself contains (it takes 4 litres of water to produce a 1 litre bottle)... all this to repackage a resource we have in enormous quantities! It just doesn't make sense to drink bottled water in Canada.
Tell your friends. Tell your family.
You can save money. You can save the planet. You can help protect one of our most important natural resources from being privatized.
For more information and to see what you can do, visit 1bottleproject.org.