Asia-Pacific is the largest bottled water market
Based on analysis and data from 109 countries, the United Nations reports estimated total global revenue in bottled water at US$1.2 trillion.
The Asia-Pacific region makes up about half of the global bottled water market in revenue, He said report, published just a few days ago before the United Nations Conference on Water in New York from March 22-24.
Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam) ranked high in the top 25 bottled water lists total sales in dollars and consumption in liters.
Meanwhile, J.Only three countries: the United States, China and Indonesia. – make upd half of the global bottled water marketaccording to the report.
United Statesbbottled water the market is My dear around US$64 billion in sales, either nearly a quarter of total revenue globally, followed by China ($50 billion, or 18%) and Indonesia ($22 billion, either 8%).
in annual spent per capita and volume of bottled water sold per capita, Singapore emerged ahead of others, with each Singaporean spending US$1,348 dollars buy 1,129 liters of bottled water annually.
The report also noted that there were disagreements about why people were consuming bottled water, with the Global North the citizens we often perceiveing that I eat healthier and tastier – and therefore a luxury – product, while for the global south he is first of all a need.
“Marketing campaigns by the bottled water industry to promote the ‘purity’ concept of bottled water and to discredit tap water as poor quality also played a role,” the report says.
However, based on some 60 case studies from more than 40 countries, There was numerous cases of inorganic, organic and microbiological contamination found in local and global brands.
“This review provides strong evidence against the misleading perception that bottled water is an unquestionably safe source of drinking water,” lead author Zeineb Bouhlel saying.
even thenbottled water generally faces fewer water quality regulations and less scrutiny that public services, co-author Vladimir Smakhtin saying.
All over the world, aUp to 4 billion people experience water scarcity for at least one month of the year.according to the UN
At the same time, 25% of the population lives in countries facing extremely high of water stress, he World Resources Institute said friday.