Revelator: Dangerous Drinking: Is Bottled Water Really Safer Than Tap Water?

A whopping 88% of Americans say they consume bottled water, according to an industry survey released in 2024. In fact that year we drank an estimated 16.4 billion gallons of it — 47.1 gallons and a shocking average of about 340 individual bottles per person. (Beyond the billions of $s spent) there’s another cost to this practice: serious effects on our health. Recent RESEARCH from Concordia University in Canada shows that people who drink bottled water ingest up to 90,000 more microparticles of plastic a year than those who drink tap water. Microplastic particles range in size from 1 micron (a thousandth of a millimeter) to 5 millimeters. For perspective, a credit card is about 1 millimeter thick. Learn MORE.