Bottled Water

<A name="[문서의 처음]"></A> ABC-Bottled Water [WORDS]   ♧ quench : 갈증 따위를 풀다, 끄다, 소멸시키다   ♧ a jugful of : 한 주전자 분량의   ♧ tap water : n. 수도 꼭지에서 나오는 맹물   ♧ scam : n. 사기   ♧ disastrous : a. 재난적인, 비참한   ♧ (fire) hydrant : n. 소화전    ♧ hydrate : v. 수화시키다   ♧ ban : v. 막다, 금지하다   ♧ landfill : n. 보통 쓰리기 매립지   ♧ end up : ~에서 끝나다, ~로 끝나다   ♧ break down : v. 부서지다, 부패하다   ♧ single out : v. 골라내다, 선별하다, 발탁하다   ♧ pristine : v. 원시의, 원래의   ♧ glacier : n. 빙하 Tonight, rethinking something as close to you as your kitchen, your desk or maybe your car cupholder. Maybe, there is one in your hand right now. I'm talking about a bottle of water. Americans drink more bottled water then they do milk, coffee or beer and there is a problem. It's not with the water itself, but those plastic bottles in which it comes. What do you do with 50 billion bottles and what do they do to the environment? ABC's Ryan Owens has our closer look.   It was 96 degrees at the International Jazz Festival in Salt Lake City this weekend, but you couldn't buy a bottle of water. The crowds had to quench their thirst with jugsful of ice tap water served in recyclable cups. Salt Lake City's mayor will not allow bottled water to be served at the event. He calls it the greatest marketing scam in history and will not use city funds to buy it.   "We just need to get away from these wasteful, environmentally disastrous consumer habits that have been developed and get back to drinking water out of the tab."   The rule even applies to the city's firefighters who now have a special valve they can plug into a fire hydrant to hydrate themselves.   In San Francisco, several fancy restaurants have banned the bottle.   "It seems kind of foolish to be serving water in glass or plastic bottles when we have great tab water here."   Foolish or not, last year, Americans drank 50 billion bottles of water, throwing away an average of 167 per person.   "There are billions and billions of billions of these that end up in landfills every year."   "(I) didn't know that. I didn't know that. But I do recycle."   But most people don't. Only one in five of these bottles ends up at a recycling center like this. The vast majority, some 38 billion last year alone, end up at landfills, where scientists can only guess could take 1,000 years for them to break down.   There's an environmental cost long before that. Experts estimate it requires 462 million gallons of oil to ship and truck all those bottles to a store near you.   "Bottled water is something that you wouldn't suspect would have a significant environmental impact."   The bottled water industry says it's being singled out.   "Any effort to reduce the environmental impact of packaging has to focus on all consumer goods and not just target bottled water."   The next time you pick up a bottle, its label covered with pristine mountain water and glaciers, keep in mind you may be doing more than quenching your thirst.   Ryan Owens, ABC News, Los Angeles.