Hungary bottled water consumption to double

Hungarians drunk 103 liter pro person in 2007, the United Arab Emirates glugged through 260 litres per person last year, it has the first place on the rank.

The bottled-water consumption has
continued to soar. In some countries, of course, tap water is less.
The United Arab Emirates glugged through 260 litres per person in
2007, double that of 2002 and more than any other country.

In Europe Italian drunk the most
bottled water, almost 200 liter pro person, the Belgian are on the
second place with theire 200 liter pro person, French and German
drink yearly 130-140 liter bottled water. However, future growth
looks less certain, particularly in rich countries where
environmental and ethical concerns have led to the promotion of
humble tap water once again.

Goldman Sachs, an investment bank,
estimates that global water consumption is doubling every 20 years,
which it calls an “unsustainable” rate of growth. Water is an
essential ingredient in many of the products that line supermarket
shelves. JPMorgan, a bank, reckons that five big food and beverage
giants—Nestlé, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch and
Danone—consume almost 575 billion litres of water a year, enough to
satisfy the daily water needs of every person on the planet.