783 million people do not have access to clean and safe water and 37 percent of those people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. What’s worse, data shows this number will increase dramatically over the next 10 years. As Peter Gleick - a leading critic of the bottled water industry - states, "We’re not going to solve the drought by not bottling water.”

This article provides for a very interesting read, written by the CEO of a US bottled water firm providing a two sided perspective of bottled water's sustainability.