Drinking Bottled Water

Water is an essential commodity for today's world. It is essential for making and processing food, producing steel, washing, bathing, even producing newspapers. Most importantly it is essential to life on earth. Water is used every second of everyday for something, one of those things is profit. Water that is most likely taken from a municipal water source, put into plastic bottles with a pretty label stuck on it and sold ubiquitously for much more than its offered out of the tap. Simply buying a filter for a faucet at home, using that as a primary source for water of all kinds of daily use could save an exponential amount of money as well as the Earth. These plastic bottles that the water is put into are recyclable but they are not being recycled enough for it to matter. The bottles that are thrown away end up out in the ocean for a fish to swallow up later, along beaches for a seagull to get its beak stuck in it causing it …show more content…
Such research has shown that consumers spend about $8 a gallon on bottled water which is more than three times the cost of unleaded gasoline (Myres). Even if they buy it by the case at Sam's Club, bottled water still costs hundreds of times more than tap water (Myers). Peter Gleick, a water expert at the nonprofit Pacific Institute and author of Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water says, "a significant amount of bottled water, 45 percent, starts as municipal tap water, sometimes getting additional processing before it's bottled" (Crane). Bottled water companies are selling us water that we can receive from our kitchen faucet at home for a lot less. Even though tap water may cost a family money, it is relatively inexpensive and is less than a penny per glass. Bottled water is not nearly as cheap (Crane). Most of the hefty price tag on bottled water comes from the packaging, shipping, and marketing, not the water itself