How Much Does It Cost to Transport Water around the World?

When calculating the cost of transporting tap water from the source to your home or business, there is a long list of outgoings to take into consideration. This includes — but is not limited to — pipe installation and maintenance, building treatment plants, staffing plants and caring for the water source (e.g. reservoirs, lakes and rivers).

Bottled water costs even more to transport. Before your bottle of Evian or Aqua Pura arrives at the office, it has to be packaged, loaded and transported — often between countries. This incurs fuel, staffing and production costs.

Monetary costs aside, transporting billions of single-use water bottles annually carries a significant cost to the health of our planet and the societies we live in. According to Peter Gleick — author of “Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with bottled water” and president of the US-based Pacific Institute — “The problems of waste, inequity, high economic costs and impacts on local water resources are intrinsic to the entire industry.”

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