The bottled water industry isn’t something that I have a long history of hatred toward, but The Chronicle of Higher Education’s article “The Dangerous Delusions of ‘Inverted Quarantine’” by Andrew Szasz really tuned me in to this issue. The fact that, at the time Szasz’s article was written in January 2008, each American drank 26 gallons of bottled water per year is disgusting. I knew that bottled water had an environmental footprint, but I didn’t realize just how substantial it was.