My county has a recycle program for alluminum, plastic and steel cans which I take advantage of but I do not drink bottled water. I have one of those reverse osmosis machines in my garage that filters the water. :)

we try not to drink our water straight out of the tap we finally got a reverse osmosis filter, and now i know that water is safe. we needed osmosis anyway for laceys amoxicillen because i get a few months supply and mix it my salf and also we have salt water fish who need reverse osmosis water. also reusing water bottles more then a few times isnt good the plastic breaks down.

Okay I am glad to hear that those who drink bottle water do recycle. But I guess my title of the thread was a little bit misleading. My main focus of posting this thread was to inform people that you we have major corporations feeding us the lie about bottle water, going into our backyards and siphoning the water only to turn around and sell it to the very people they took it from. These corporations are moving people off their land in third world countries where they have lived and prospered for generations to areas of dust bowls. These people can't grow their food like they have always done because they lack the power to say no to the corporations. Its just downright maddening and beyond wrong that they go in and change the whole landscape of a community for their own personal gain. The very least they could do would give back to the communities they harbor the water from but they don't.

They pump water or hoard it (which they didn't pay for) and then sell it for profit making billions of dollars every year. All the while the communities are suffering. This is a moment in our lifetime that we have to look beyond ourselves, maybe the pumping is not in "our" backyard but it still affects us.
Drying up lakes, streams, ponds, etc disrupts our WHOLE ecosystem. So what happens in India affects us....what happens in Africa affects us....what happens in Michigan affect us. Our world no longer consists of who we "let in" our world is EVERYONE.

Also I have a question for those who say they drink bottle water because their city told them not to drink it: if you don't drink it, what about showering? Do you use the water for showering? Do you know whatever is in the water you are told not to drink you can actually absorb them during a shower, your exposure may not be as much as actually drinking the water but you are exposed.

I know this is bad but I rarely drink any water but I give my babies bottled!:p

I don't have anything to add except that I commend you on your approach. Rather than calling for legislation or crying for Big Brother to fix it you are appealing to the nobler principle and asking for personal accountability. Excellent! Our morality, ethic stance, and honor as seen by the world comes from the people...not the government. If we are better people we will have better government.

:bravo: