Starbucks Wasting Six-Million Gallons of Water Every DAY

[Really Lost One]

You want your barista’s latte spoon clean, sure, but recent news reports accuse Starbucks of wasting as many as six million gallons of water each day. All that water runs down the tap because of a company policy that requires stores to keep water running in the sink constantly, so germs don’t build up.

As Eat.Drink.Better. discussed, all that water would be enough to provide water for two million people in Namibia. In fact, “a single Starbucks tap left running for just over three minutes wastes the amount of water one African needs to survive for a day in drought conditions.”

And, as Eat.Drink.Better. points out, this isn’t just about wasting water, but about corporate responsibility—Starbucks owns Ethos Water that donates money to help water programs around the world and Starbucks itself touts environmentalism as a company policy.

If you want to avoid Starbucks next time you need a cup of coffee, try CoffeeShopFind.com or IndieCoffeeShops.com to find and add your own.

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Um, yeah, maybe it's me but that's a shit load of water, which can be used to help people around the world. What the hell is wrong with you Mamba, tell your people to shut down the tap when they're not using it. What a waste...

 

[GMJ]

So? It's not like the water is "lost." I never really understood the concept of wasting water, the only real strain I see is in the utility bill.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

The water supply is recycled, so it isn't really wasting. The only way to waste water is sprinklers seeing as that just seeps into the ground.

 

[bbwMax]

WOW!

Just thinking abput it my Nan had a swimming pool in her back garden. It was 11,000 Gallons (Sounds Huge but it was about 10Mx7M) Picturing that times However much is astonishing,

but as GMJ and ME said it all gets recycled anyway.

 

[umair]

Waste? Water gets recycled. We get rain. We got more than enough water in the world.

 

[Denny Crane]

I'm sure there's some cost in recycling the water and it may actually be significant. But still, I bet their water "waste" pales in comparison to HS kids taking showers for an extra 2 minutes each in the morning.

 

[umair]

Why are we arguing over water? There is more than enough in the world. Look at all the damn oceans.

 

[BasX]

 

[Mamba]

So what? It's called the water cycle for a reason.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I'm sure there's some cost in recycling the water and it may actually be significant. But still, I bet their water "waste" pales in comparison to HS kids taking showers for an extra 2 minutes each in the morning.

You have to get every nook and cranny.

 

[Claud]

Why are we arguing over water? There is more than enough in the world. Look at all the damn oceans.

We drink fresh water, not salt water. We would die if we drank ocean water, unless it is processed, purified and the salt gets taken out. If we were to do that process, the actual amount of water that we would get from the ocean is very minimal...plus its an expenisve process.

Also, it is called a cycle for a reason. We need water to produce moisture/evaporation that becomes gas and it gets sucked up into the atmosphere...after so much moisture is contained in the atmosphere; it rains.

Without water (fresh and salt---being consumed) there would not be moisture...without moisture/evaporation there is no rain...no rain=no water...

I guess that is why they call it a waste. What we drink does not go back out there unless we start recycling waste water, which can be and in some places is done.

 

[bodyman5001]

I wonder how much water gets stuck in plastic bottles in landfills?