Good Faith Business Practices: WeDrink Bottles for America's Economic Health

In 2005, Americans spent $9.8 billion on bottled water, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation analysis.

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That's right, I'm gonna go ahead and use the CNN/NBC/FOX tactic to let the weight of big numbers really fall by reiterating that this is 9,800 Million dollars we are wasting on a product that isn't even any better than tap water.

Yeah I said it, Tap Water! It costs $0.002 per gallon (up to 10,000 times less than bottled water), and has stricter safety and health standards than bottled water!

If there's anything that's gonna pull America out of the economic rut we've found ourselves in, it's by thinking of ourselves as one big family unit, with money coming in and out amongst other countries. And the more we can trim from our family budget, the better off we'll all be.

This is one of the main reasons that Dan and I founded WeDrink. We didn't want to start a business that would ultimately just move money around between folks, creating little net value.

I'll spare you all the rant full of econ jargon by keeping it short and sweet: We wanted to build a business that would also have an immense positive net impact on the economic health of a great many Americans.

By choosing to boycott the waste of plastic bottled water, and instead drinking tap water and taking it to go in a reusable stainless steel water bottle, you could be saving $1,000 to $2,000 per year on bottled water costs for a family of four.

And that's just the beginning. We have yet to discuss the environmental impact of choosing stainless steel bottles over plastic (see: The Great Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch), or let alone the immense charitable benefits of WeDrink (the sole characteristic that lets us stand out from all the other stainless steel bottle companies).

But those are all stories for another day. For now, let's just think about all the money we could be saving.

Best,
-Andrew