An alarming new report is out that the drinking water inside of your child’s school could be potentially very harmful to their health. In this new report, it points out that there are thousands of public schools whose drinking water across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
The problem itself is a great concern but what officials currently are suggesting to do replaces one problem with another. To simple replace a child’s drinking water with plastic bottled water carrier is own inherent risks. These risks include leaching BPA and other possible toxins into the water. Then on the environmental front, Approximately 1,500 water bottles end up as garbage every second! Lastly if you assume the average cost of 1 bottle of water is $1, multiply that by the average school days in a year and that comes to a cost of $180 a year per child. Contrast that with the cost of a stainless steel water bottle such as a Klean Kanteen at $15 and the cost savings, health benefits, and environmental impact is huge! For more information about this subject please visit the following resource links.
