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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 101
Sign: Scorpio

City: New York
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/4/2007
Sunday, November 04, 2007 
*Up to 40 percent of bottled water comes from the same source as tap water, but is sold back to consumers at hundreds of times the cost.

*American consumers currently spend $15 billion a year on bottled water. At the same time, there is a $22 billion funding gap between what cities need to spend on water infrastructure and the money available to them.

*17 million barrels of oil were used last year to produce the plastic water bottles. That is enough fuel for more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year, and it generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.

*In 2006, at least four billion pounds of plastic bottles ended up in city waste streams. It can cost cities more than $70 million in dumping and incineration fees alone.

*The United Nations warns that by 2025, two-thirds of the world's population more than five billion people will lack access to water.
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