Bottled water is great. It tastes good, it’s convenient, and it’s healthy, but it comes at great cost to the environment that we live in. American consumption of bottled water has been booming ever since it became a popular item on the market. According to sales figures from Beverage Marketing Corporation, Americans drink 29.2 Gallons of bottled water a year. That’s 222 plastic bottles a year per person with only about 12 percent being recycled. Producing bottled water requires about 2,000 times more energy compared to tap water. It uses up to 554 million barrels of oil every year. That is a huge carbon footprint being left on this earth for something we can get for almost free from the tap. Bottled water is creating pollution in the air, on land, and in the water to a point that if we do not do something about it, the consequences could be threatening. Bottled started becoming popular in the market in the mid 1980’s. It was seen as a cool fad for people who thought it was cleaner than tap water and wanted to drink water because of the health benefits. The environmental impact was immediate, yet, unseen and only getting worse as sales continue to grow. The energy in producing water in bottles is astronomical because of all the factors involved. Water has to be shipped, bottles need to be made, water needs to be filtered, and then the bottles need to be distributed to stores. According to sustainabletable.org, the amount of oil it takes to make the plastic alone uses 17.6 million barrels of oil, not including the oil it takes to transport the goods to the consumers. That is enough to fuel one million cars on U.S. roads each year. The amount of plastic produced for bottles is about 2.7 million tons each year. According to studies, only 12 percent is being recycled which means that there are over 2.3 million tons of water bottles being put in U.S. landfills each year. That takes up precious space in a time where there is little r