Bottled water is everywhere. Supermarkets, gas stations, bookstores and coffee shops, outdoor events, even vending machines at The Nation office offer it, but there are countless reasons to kick the bottle habit.

If you don’t find the graphic below utterly compelling, then read Eco-Salon‘s nine good reasons to ditch bottled water. Need more arguments? Watch a recent short film created by the estimable The Story of Stuff Project which concentrates on the ways that corporations have successfully manufactured demand to convince Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already freely from their taps.flows

No matter who you are, no matter what your politics, it makes environmental, capitalist and ethical sense to stop drinking bottled water.

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