If you’re in Suffolk County, you need to be thinking about your water quality. News 12 has already done a week’s worth of installments on the serious issue of contaminants in the Long Island water supply: the issue is a very real health hazard, and Smithtown homeowners need to find ways to protect themselves. Many people might assume that, if the tap water isn’t clean, bottled water would be a the healthier solution. But the fact is that assumption just isn’t true.
Why Bottled Water is NOT The Solution
The main thing that people don’t realize about bottled water is that it is essentially the same thing as filtered tap: Aquifina and Dasani water doesn’t come from the mountain springs on their bottles, it comes from a residential reservoir that is essentially the same as your actual tap, just marked up to almost 2,000 times the price you’d pay for water from your kitchen sink — yes, we’re serious about that number. That alone should be reason enough for the smart homeowners of Smithtown to avoid buying bottled water, but the disincentives don’t even stop there.
Secondly, the plastic element of bottled water ought to make you reconsider the purchase. In one week, the U.S. goes through half a billion bottles of water a week! That enough non-biodegradable waste to circle the earth 5 times. Even if you recycle, the reality is that our consumption of bottled water currently far exceeds the rate of reuse, so most recycled water bottles are being down-cycled (turned into lower quality products that are thrown away) and shipped to foreign landfills anyway. Furthermore, drinking water out of plastic is unhealthy on its own: Bisphenol A (BPA) leaching from plastic bottles into drinking water have been linked to a whole host of negative health effects, including birth complications, diabetes, and even cancer.
If you choose to have a whole home filtration system installed, you will:
- Save Money– One of our filtration systems will filter 125,000 gallons of water for you in a year. The cost of that in average bottled water (approximately $1.22 a gallon, assuming you buy gallons instead of bottles!) would be about $152,500.00. We do the installation for less than $1000 for both filtration units.
- Save the Environment– Stop contributing to landfills across the world, and help conserve energy by not supporting bottle water manufacturers.
- Have Better-Tasting, Healthy Water– Protect the health of your family with cleaner, more convenient water supply.
So don’t turn to bottled water in the face of this water quality problem Bottled water isn’t a solution; in fact, the outrageous energy expenditure of water battle manufacturing is part of the global problem! Instead of being a part of the problem with them, call the Outstanding Plumber and start being healthier, smarter, and more efficient today.