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Bottled water is hugely popular in Spain as it is in most places, but it really doesn’t make sense to buy bottled water to use at home.
Even with prices as low as 35 cents for a one and a half litre bottle, the cost for the same amount of water from your tap here in Nerja is less than 1 cent.
So on price alone it just doesn’t make sense to buy bottled water!
The impact on the environment that billions of empty plastic bottles has is staggering.
Of all the bottles purchased less than 30% actually reach the recycling bin, the rest end up in landfills or incinerators and worse, in our countryside and riverbeds and the sea.
Plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting.
The manufacturing process of the bottles uses huge amount of oil, 24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles.
It takes more than 2000 times the energy to produce bottled water than to produce tap water.
It also takes more water to produce a disposable plastic bottle than it holds!
In 2009, the small Australian town of Bundanoon voted to become the first town in the world to outlaw bottled water. Bundanoon’s six stores removed bottled water from their stock. The town now offers public drinking fountains and filtered water dispensers where people can fill up reusable water bottles and canteens. The reusable empty bottles are sold in place of full bottles in the local stores. Bundanoon’s bold stand against bottled water’s damaging effects on the environment and on communities has thrust it into a global spotlight.
Consumerism has led us to believe that bottled water is healthy or better for us but this is simply not provable.
If you are unsure about the quality of tap water you can always buy a water jug filter which will remove chlorine, sediment and dissolved minerals such as magnesium and calcium.
Brita is a popular make of water jug filter and is available in Nerja for 28 euros, saving you from carrying heavy bottled water home and saving you money, but more importantly saving the environment 
