Simone Kemeni EN 102 Final essay 1 04/07/14 Throw Bottle Water Away and Drink Tap Water. Water is an essential part to human life. We as humans need around eight to twelve cups per day to make up for the fact that throughout normal functions such as breathing and sweating we lose an average of ten cups per day. To make sure that we are healthy and everything runs properly, we must make sure we drink the right amount of water. The one question when thinking about water is what type of water will you drink?
Why People Should Stop Using a Plastic Water Bottle There are hundreds of people who use plastic water bottles—not only on the University of Illinois campus, but worldwide as well—and there have been huge sustainability issues as the plastic water bottle industry continues to grow tremendously. Using plastic water bottles are growing to be a part of people’s lifestyle, so people don’t really think about the consequences of using them. Although there are some people that actually care and think of ways to protect our environment, the problem is that most people are ignorant about the negative impacts they bring to our environment and our bodies. The most logical reason why people should stop buying plastic water bottles is that plastic bottled water isn’t a good value. In fact, bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water.
POSITIVES FOR BOTTLED WATER The positives for bottled water are that bottled water is easily accessible as if you are out somewhere you can go into a shop and buy a bottle of water. Some people also think that bottled water is more pure and better/healthier for you. SOLUTIONS I think that the bottled water industry should find a way to make less pollution for the environment. I also think that they should reduce the packaging and that the water should not be shipped from other countries to stop pollution. I also think that they should reduce the prices of bottled water.
There are many people that are always ill because of not getting purified water like us especially in Africa recent studies show that only forty six percent of African people get clean water. By not drinking clean water people can get many problems that lead to death like diarrhea, animals are also a being victim to contaminated water with our fault. Water purifying means that removing any unsafe substance from the specific type of water. Water contamination is caused by many ways but the most important cause is us, most of the contamination is caused by poor sewage system that may lead to chemical contamination and this may contaminate streams and rivers that people drink. To purify polluted water we may use different type of methods according to the pollutants entered in the water.
While water bottles are able to be recycled it has been found that the majority are disposed of by trash or being left behind somewhere. Water bottles are polluting our environment. There are many health concerns related to plastic water bottles, since bottled
An animal could also be forced to relocate from its current home because of an excess of trash that restrain the daily activities needed to survive. The planet is the one body that cannot be replaced when it comes to being impacted by this issue. The bags that are thrown out and end up in landfills and sit for many hundred years since they are not easily broken down by our environment. A report done by the Moore Recycling Associates showed that an estimated 812,010,000 pounds of used plastics (plastic bags also) were recovered during 2006 and 2005. (Ian 1).
Whether you are a young individual that drinks a lot of water, little, or none at all, you will learn numerous reasons of why you need to consume it every day. The normal amount of water that should be consumed every day is 8-eight ounce glasses. "Water is involved in all body processes. You need the proper amount for all those processes to work correctly” (Guralnik). The most important reason that young individuals need to drink a lot of water is to stay hydrated.
The extent of ecological damage means that it takes decades for an ecosystem affected by the industry to heal. This water is then packaged in bottles made of various plastics. Since plastics do not biodegrade easily, these bottles, unless disposed of properly, find their way to land fills, or oceanic garbage patches. Scientific estimates suggest that some of the bottles will remain in these landfills and oceanic patches for close to a thousand years. As the plastics gradually degrade, chemicals leach into the soil and wind up in the water table.
These vehicle fumes coupled with other air pollution sources are responsible for many residents suffering from severe respiratory health problems. To reduce the air pollution, the Mexican government should redevelop the public transport to a more reliable, effective, and reasonable mean of transport. This way, the number of people using vehicles which cause air pollution will decrease thus making the city more ecologically sustainable. However, there are also major problems regarding the disposal of waste in the megacity. The amounts of waste recycled as a percentage of the total waste per year is extremely low.
Clean drinking water is an essential concern in our life, however about 1 billion people are currently suffering from lack of access to safe drinking water and according to World Health Organization (WHO), more than 2.5 million people die each year due to the water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Filtration technology has been recently used as an advanced method for making a healthier and cleaner environment by increasing the water quality of the water resources such as seawater, rainwater, wastewater effluent and etc. This technology can be a potential solution for the problem of clean water shortage and removal of existing contaminants by a filtration process to increase the water quality. The necessity of benefiting a breakthrough in filtration technology has led to increasing attention in advanced functional nanosized materials such as nanofibers for filtering devices as a solution for providing clean and drinkable water at lower energy costs. Electrospinning is a fiber spinning method that relies on electrostatic forces to fabricate fibers in nano to micrometer