不应该再买瓶装水的3个原因

3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy Bottled Water Anymore

I recently wrote an article about why you shouldn’t re-use water bottles. Since it was so popular, I figured I’d take it a step further. Thus, this article focusing on why you shouldn’t buy bottled water at all.

我最近写了一篇为什么你应该重复利用水瓶的文章。自从其变得如此受欢迎以来，我就想着要将这一概念再推进一步。因此，这篇文章的重点就在于你不应该再买瓶装水的原因。 Though you might be somewhat familiar with this topic, I bet you’ll be interested in reading about the latest reasons and research stating why you should skip buying bottled water when you go to the supermarket.

尽管你可能会有点熟悉这个主题，但我敢打赌我打赌你会有兴趣阅读最新的原因，在去超市买瓶装水的时候研究为何应该跳过的研究说明。

1.Bottled water costs you more in the long run. 长期看来，瓶装水的成本更高

We all know why we buy bottled water. It’s more convenient to grab one and go, than it is to clean and maintain a re-usable bottle.

我们都知道买瓶装水的原因。比起清洗，保养一个可以重复利用的瓶子更方便拿走。 While using bottled water will save you time in the short run, it will also drain your hard-earned cash in the long run. Indeed, recent studies have shown that bottled water costs around $7.50 per gallon, which is about two thousand times as costly as the water that comes from your faucet.

在短时间内看来用瓶装水会节约时间，长期看来也会花光你辛苦赚来的钱。事实上,最近的研究表明,瓶装水的成本约7.50美元每加仑,这种花费大约是水龙头流出的水的二千倍。 Despite that fact, we continue allowing ourselves to be bamboozled by beverage companies. From 2011 to 2012, we’ve increased our combined spending on bottled water by 6.5%, making it quite a profitable industry indeed.

尽管有这样一个事实,我们还是继续允许自己被饮料公司愚弄。从2011到2012，我们在瓶装水上的消费总和已经达到 6.5%，使之成为一个相当有利可图的行业。 2. Bottled water pollutes the environment. 瓶装水污染环境

According to National Geographic, folks purchase around half a billionbottles of water per week – in the United States alone. 据国家地理杂志表示，仅在美国民众每周就购买5亿瓶水。

Despite the fact that we have a much more developed municipal water

infrastructure, Americans consume three times as much bottled water as Italy. 尽管我们有一个更发达市政水利基础设施,美国人的瓶装水消费是意大利瓶装水消费的3倍。 Unfortunately, few of those bottles are recycled, with most ending up piled high in landfills, floating around in stagnant rivers, or lodging themselves in various underwater environments.

但是这些瓶子只有少部分会被回收，大部分会被高高地堆起来填埋，漂浮在不流动的河中或者淹没在各种水下环境。

3. Bottled water isn’t any cleaner than tap water. 瓶装水并不比自来水干净

A 1999 study brings this difference to light. They tested over 1,000 bottles of water, sourced from 103 completely different brands. While the water was safe to drink for the most part, they found that at least some samples they tested

contained contaminants that exceeded state standards. These contaminants ranged from those of the bacterial variety, to carcinogens and various kinds of toxic chemicals — all of which would normally not be permitted under normal EPA standards.

If you’re thinking, “Well, that study was done in 1999 so it’s probably out of date,” you’d unfortunately be incorrect. Since that time, the regulations that guide the bottled water industry have not changed.

1999年的一项研究带来一些不同。他们测试了130种品牌完全不相同的1000多瓶水，他们发现,至少有一些测试的样品中的污染物超过国家标准。这些污染物的范围从细菌种类,致癌物质到各种有毒化学物质---这些正常情况下在达不到EPA正常标准的时候都是不允许的。如果你觉得“这些都是在1999年做研究，所以可能已经过时了，”但是你错了。从那时候起，知道瓶装水行业的规范就没有变过。

Your tap water is more than likely just as pure than any of the bottled water you can purchase in the market.

也许自来水里面的水就和你在市场上买到的瓶装水一样纯净。

So let’s be thankful for our taps! Instead of spending our money on the bottled stuff, let’s send it to those who really need it.

所以还是感激自来水吧!与其将钱花在瓶装的东西上,还不如将其寄给真正需要它的人。