Bottled water's role in pollution

NorthJersey.com has an informative article that talks about how bottled water is a huge pollutant.

While we don't agree writer's conclusion that drinking tap water is the only option that consumers who want to green their lifestyle have, the article makes some great points about how environmentally irresponsible bottled water consumption is:

• An estimated 17 million barrels of oil were used to make plastic water bottles in 2006, producing 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
• Energy is also consumed to fill, transport, refrigerate, and dispose of all these bottles.
• Worldwide bottling of water uses about 2.7 million tons of plastic each year.