17. …Aquifers and other water bodies
Even this is affecting
our aquifers and other water bodies,
due to which,
our ground water levels are
getting decreased
(*Aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rocks from which groundwater extracted, easily.)
18. …in the year 2006, the Global consumption of Bottled Water was…
20. …and this simply means that it would have consumed...
164,000,000,000
nearly…
168,000,000,000
(One Hundred & Sixty Eight Billion)
plastic bottles in a year
21. …from which…
90%
of plastic bottles, end up as garbage…
22. …according to environmental
think tank
Earth Policy Institute (EPI)…
1500
plastic bottles, end up as garbage
every second
32. …according to another study done by Earth Policy Institute (EPI)…
nearly
$100,000,000,000
(One Billion Dollars)
are spent every year by the consumers
WORLDWIDE, to purchase the
Bottled Water
33. …which is enough amount to revive any of the…
SINKING
ECONOMIC
SYSTEMS