What's the Most Environment Friendly Option for Clean Drinking Water?

The most environmentally friendly way to achieve clean filtered water as you travel is through safe, economical AquaSafeCorp filtration product. There is no need to cart purchased bottled water with you – you can conveniently fill up at municipal taps and drink through the filtration products as you go – saving your money, your health, and the environment.

Environmental Impact of Bottled Water

Figures quoted in Beverage Digest indicated more than 2.6 billion cases of bottled water were sold in the U.S.A. in 2006 (that's around US$15 billion in sales that year), while figures in the UK indicate over 13 billion bottles of drinking water sold in 2007.

Most startling is that only 3 billion of the 13 billion were recycled. This is of major concern as water bottles are made of a non-biodegradable product which create serious landfill issues, and leach water poisons into the air if incinerated.

But the environmental impact starts long before purchase as the manufacture and global transport of plastic bottles for water results in substantial CO2 emissions contributing to the industries ever expanding carbon footprint. Estimates indicate 4 liters of water and 90 grams of oil are used in the manufacture of each one liter plastic bottle.

Multiply that by the 45 billion plastic bottles manufactured globally, equally around 33 million tones of water bottle plastic each year, and the environmental impact becomes frightening.

With the often declining drinking water standards and water pollution in many Western countries, the unsafe water supplies in many emerging nations and particularly due to aggressive advertising, drinking bottled water has come close to being the accepted norm. But this may not be the source of healthy drinking water we believe, with many now asserting commercial water bottles are a potentially hazardous health and eco cocktail*.

Antimony trioxide, a potentially toxic trace element, is used in the manufacture of water bottles. Researchers in Germany (as reported in the Environmental Science and Technology Online) who tested 132 brands of bottled water from 28 countries, found when the bottles were left for six months at room temperature the level of antimony increased by up to 90% in some instances.

AquaSafeCorp Products Are Clean, Green - Reduce Carbon Footprint

Our AquaSafeCorp products are environmentally friendly, chemical-free water filters that can be carried conveniently in your pocket/backpack and are a re-usable and an inexpensive alternative to bottled water. Paying many times over over when replacing the purchase of bottled water.

The AquaSafeStraw (filtering up to 500 liters) drinking water filter removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria and contaminants, including Giardia, Cryptosporidium, the AquaSafeBottle+ (filtering up to 1000 liters) and AquSafeStraw+ (filtering up to 1000 liters) removes bacteria and viruses from municipal supplies without any harsh substances, and without the unpleasant taste experienced when using chlorine and iodine based products. AquaSafeCorp products provide environmentally friendly drinking water and, being so compact, it can be carried conveniently anywhere in the world – leaving no carbon footprint as it goes.