EU delegates coming to Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the union won’t have to spend time thinking about whether to choose still or sparkling water, since everyone will be served tap water at conferences and dinners. The aim is to show that the water quality is actually very good, and to save CO2 emissions. To give it a bit of glamour anyway, the water is served in designer bottles.
In 2007 Swedes drank about 248 millions of liters of bottled water, which was a doubling compared to ten years earlier. According to a study made by a consumer organization transports and production of bottled water amounted to 34 000 tons of carbon dioxide. But since then the sales of bottled water has started to decrease, and around Sweden several cities have decided that no bottled water will be served to the civil servants and during official activities.
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As i mentioned earlier and i don`t know how is it in Sweden, the problem is also in infrastructure, so i would certainly double check that water. Personaly, i started to drink bottled water some 10 years ago, when one day huge amounts of purple particles exited the pipes and accumulated in boilers (probably after some urban repairs). Some older houses (100 years or so) have also problems with slow, unobservable releasing of lead particles, from which the pipes are made of. …
Health risks can of course be the case when pipes have not been maintained properly, and changing old pipes is of course costly. But to care for a good water infrastructure providing everyone with clean drinking water must be a good priority, don’t you think?
Absolutely. But the problem is in control, because no one can guarantee what is in the pipes. It would be very, very helpull if every house would have an integrated system with central display / interface from which you could automaticly know how much you spend and the quality of it (water, electricity, gas, internal and external quality of air, etc.). But such sensors for complete and continuous analyisis of water (for affordable price at least) very probably still do not exist.