[The Mayor]

Think before you drink – water!

Bottled water costs more than 10 000 times as much to produce as tap water and in many countries (including South Africa) the tap water is just as pure.

In short, bottled water owes much of its popularity to advertising and fashion, not to health needs or necessity.

Bottled water does have a place – for example when travelling to countries or towns with unsafe water. But its general use by an individual will cost her thousands of Rands a year. The cost to the planet when millions use it unnecessarily is incalculable – but we do know that it exacerbates climate change.