All the containers including water bottles are made from natural gas and petroleum. The cost to fuel 100,000 cars a year is what is spent to make water bottle that Americans use a year. In addition, the making of plastic materials, processing the water, fill and seal the bottles, and transporting water bottles to the various stores around the country is an expensive waste of energy and severely drains the limited fossil fuels. In “Bad To The Last Drop,” bottled water “is shipped at vast expense from one part of the world to another, is the kept refrigerated before sale, and causes huge amounts of plastic bottles to into landfills.” According to, “In praise of tap water,” only about 23% of the bottle will end up being recycled. Almost 77% of water bottles are not recycled.
It is much easier to grab a water bottle than take the time to fill up a water bottle from the Brita water filter or even the tap (which is my favorite)! There are several factors that Sally’s mother should think about before purchasing the bottled water. First, bottled water is no better for you than tap water. Despite what marketing ploys advertising companies use in efforts to scam you into buying the water it is no better for you and in some cases it can be worse (with the additives added to bottled water to improve the taste). Most big name water bottle brands are essentially filtered tap water (ref.
There is no such thing as free water, that saying is not true someone has to pay for it whether it is a home owner or a landlord someone has to pay the water bill it is usually broken down into quarterly payments every four months a year. So by paying for good tasting water is worth it. The reason why tap water and bottled water have a different taste is because of how it is processed and disinfected. Tap water is disinfected with chlorine, ultraviolet light, chloramine, and ozone to kill disease-causing germs. (U.S. EPA, 2005,para 12) The reason for using these disinfectants in the water systems like chlorine and chloramine is because they are effective and inexpensive and as it travels through the pipes it continues to disinfect traveling to the homes and businesses.
Another study at the University of Missouri shows that bottled water increases the growth of breast cells by 78%.” I don’t think humans should pay more money for water that tastes the same as tap water and also hurts the environment just to risk their lives. I don’t think you want to add another symptom leading to cancer; one of our foremost death causes. In addition to the brand-new water bottles having chemicals inside, even reusing the bottles with our own tap water has its disadvantages. Studies show that if water bottles that are made of single-use plastic are reused, then they can produce leach chemicals in the water that lead to bacterial growth. I think that humans should not waste money for single-use items when they got all the water they need at home.
How can people meet this requirement? People have two choices, either tap water or bottled water. Water is vital to life, and although people can live for several weeks on water alone, they cannot survive for more than a few days without water. Bottled water can taste better then tap water because of the way it is disinfected at the production site of the water. The biggest controversy is bottled water vs. tap water.
However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste” (Lytle, Claire. plastic-pollution.org). The more production of bottles for water are leading to more being sold, especially in colleges, which eventually causes more pollution. The pollution is harming the environment and having such a damaged environment can cause problems for human beings. Colleges sell an enormous amount of bottled water.
In addition to it some additional challenges faced by the Brita brand were: * Bottled water consumption was growing at a tremendous pace which was the main cause of the Brita brand’s volume decline. Bottled water was expected to surpass carbonated soft drinks as the most popular commercial beverage in the US in 2004. For bottled water (400 brands), 20% of brands were driving 80% of category volume. * The “leaky bucket” issue where customers who bought the product stopped using the brand because these consumers were finding changing filer too onerous job. * Refrigerators with built-in water filtration were going rapidly at an expected rate of at least 2 million units per year from 2005.
More than 1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water (Lawrence & Weber, 2011, p. 43). Especially in the developing countries, with poor water management it contributes to increasing malnutrition and disease, a losing of biodiversity and agricultural production, rising food prices, reducing economic growth and social stability, that leading to conflicts over water resources. The major source for of the Coca-Cola Company’s (TCCC) products is water. Even the company’s CEO admits “that unless the communities where the company operated had access to water, they haven’t got a business” (Lawrence & Weber, 2011, p. 43). Coca-Cola and its bottlers using 80 billion gallons of water every year worldwide; in which two fifths goes into finished beverages.
Heather Rogers has explained a lot of the negative externalities in the book Gone Tomorrow, she has explained very carefully how plastic is a problem all over the world, especially In the United States. As she has says in her book Gone Tomorrow “at the same time, garbage output was exploding; between 1960 and 1980 the amount of solid waste in the United States quadrupled.” Also United States is the number one producer for trash, I agree with her because we Americans throw away things that can be re used again once or twice. Has anyone though how important water bottles are? They are the biggest negative externalities of all times, most of don’t even recycle even though there are recycling bins everywhere. There are a lot of effects on plastic and most of are not aware of them or maybe just ignore the fact.
SPS: To inform my audience on the dangers of bottled water companies on the environment, and our society. Thesis: Use third party sources to reveal where bottled water comes from, who regulates it, and the negative impact its factories and waste have on our environment and ourselves. I: Intro: AGD: How many people here drink bottled water? Well according to the documentary “Tapped” by Stephanie Soechtig, 40% of all bottled water is just recycled municipal tap water. Aka, the exact same thing that comes out of your faucet.