Article: Bottled water controversy doesn't hold water.

Byline: RYAN RADIA

By RYAN RADIA and ANGELA LOGOMASINI

THANKS TO environmental activists and busybody lawmakers, bottled water may soon be more expensive and less accessible. They say bottled water is wasteful and environmentally irresponsible, and they are pushing a host of silly laws to tax, ban or otherwise hinder access to the product.

Among the anti-bottled water complaints is the claim that making and transporting bottled water uses too much oil and that switching to tap water could significantly reduce U.S. oil consumption.

Yet even if everyone stopped drinking bottled water, U.S. oil consumption would decrease just 0.02 ...

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