In Elizabeth Royte's For Now, What Should We Be Drinking?

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1. Elizabeth Royte’s question “For now, what should we be drinking?” is answered throughout the excerpt by saying that tap water is no better than bottled water. Although bottled water labels say their water comes from the best of the best types of filter, its often a lie and comes from the same type of water that comes through your tap water, according to Royte. She supports her conclusion throughout the whole excerpt with specific example and evidence. Although she has a water filter in her tap water, she believes it is almost the same without one. Royte would rather not drink bottled water due to the misleading advertisement and the high cost of it; she will drink bottled water if necessary. 2. The graph on page 723 represents the liquid consumed by Americans. It is easy to see that bottled water is one of the only things growing besides sports drinks, which is mostly bottled…show more content…
Royte’s excerpt makes many views of the effects of tap water and the different types of problems associated with drinking it. In many areas, they say it is okay to drink the tap water but there are a few instances where the water needs to be filtered. She explains the different types of bacteria’s in tap water around the United States but she does tell how the bottled water companies do not answer to the public and how they are being untruthful about their purification of water. Although she believes they are untruthful, she provides little evidence of that. She is being quite vague about her conclusion that water bottles are not the best source of water. She states “Certainly, nearly everything humans do has an environmental impact- biking to work, recycling newspapers, and drinking tap water included.” She makes the point that it’s easy to attract other kinds of bacteria other than just through tap water, but she is still being unclear about her views of the harshness of bottled water. There is essentially no evidence that proves her conclusion to be valid, except the

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