A wine bottle (750 mL) carries 1.6 pounds’ worth of water, plus a bit of weight from the bottle itself. A two-liter soda bottle weighs 4.4 pounds. A gallon jug weighs 8.3 pounds. A five-gallon ...

Whether it be the latest prized Stanley cup or that 10-year-old plastic spout bottle you don ... obsessed with drinking water. … We’re talking about 10, 15 liters that overwhelm their ...

Combining all the energy input totals, Gleick and Cooley found that producing bottled water requires between 5.6 and 10.2 million joules of energy per liter, depending on transportation factors (a ...