The truth about bottled water

Greeks spent every year huge amounts of money on bottled water even when daily new research, studies and news headlines warn of their use and danger.

The truth

• 25%-40% of bottled water is processed tap water
• Multipure systems do not contain conservatives
• The plastic used in the production of plastic bottles is extremely dangerous to public health especially after exposure to sun beams
• Bottled water costs up to 20 times more than Multipure
• 90% of a plastic bottle cost lies in the production and label

Environmental Research

• One Multipure replacement filter prevents 12,000 plastic bottles to end up in land fills
• 80% of all plastic bottles end up on land fills polluting the environment
• 300ml of petrol is needed to produce 1 liter of bottled water
• Only 5% of all bottled water is recycled

Cost

• The cost of a Multipure replacement filter is 95 euro/year
• Your water will cost you 7 euro/month
• 1 liter of Multipure water costs only 0,03 euro

Bottled water in the Greek news

• Ta Nea “SOS for plastic bottles”
• Ethnos “Dangerous microorganisms in bottled water”
• To Vima “Exposive cocteil bottled water”
• To Vima “We still drink carcinogen water”
• Kathimerini “Bottled water and oft drinks in suspicious bottles”
• Eleutherotypia “Bad water-rotten authorities”