A recent article in the New York Times discuses some of the reasons bottled water is bad for the environment. Among them, "It takes 1.5 million barrels a year just to make the plastic water bottles Americans use, according to the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, plus countless barrels to transport it from as far as Fiji and refrigerate it." Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/fashion/12water.html?_r=1&oref=slogin