But vast tracts of tropical forest are destroyed to create grazing for cattle, Usually owned by rich ranchers who already have too much land. Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydroelectric plants to smelt bauxite - used in aluminum cans. And the burning of wood contributes to the greenhouse effect. Besides the cost of fuel for transport there is the expense of packaging. And there is no way of checking that bottled water is any cleaner than tap water.
Rain is often too polluted to drink.
Boiling tap water does nothing to remove harmful pesticide traces. It is increasingly difficult to find sufficient land to bury them. The unbleached disposable diapers which have recently become available should not be called ozone-friendly as bleached nappies do not damage the ozone layer either. The prospect of dealing with endless buckets of towelling nappies can be very daunting. A growing trend in North America is for parents to pay a laundry service to pick up a bucket each day.