Abstract
The consumption of “bottled water”—fresh water sold in individual, consumer-sized containers—is growing rapidly. More than 200 billion liters of bottled water were sold in 2008 (the last year for which reliable, public data are available), mostly in North America and Europe, but with rapidly expanding sales in many developing countries as well.1
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This Water Brief is modified and updated from Gleick and Cooley (2009).
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Not all the energy used to make these bottles is oil, or even fossil fuels; thus, we use the common comparison of "energy equivalent."
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Gleick, P.H., Cooley, H. (2012). Bottled Water and Energy. In: Gleick, P.H. (eds) The World’s Water. The World’s Water. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-59726-228-6_8
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