Bottled water: carbon footprint

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💧Carbon footprintBottled water

0.32kg CO₂e / kg

1 litre (≈ 1 kg)

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Bottled water comes in at about 0.32 kg CO₂e / kg (1 litre (≈ 1 kg)).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, Bottled water sits at #1 from the lightest — one of the lightest.

Water has a footprint, and it's the bottle: plastic and trucking. Tap water is ~1000× lighter.

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Figures from ADEME AGRIBALYSE 3.2 (2025), via impactco2.fr; Licence Ouverte 2.0, licensed Licence Ouverte 2.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.