Tap Water Is Better Than Bottled Water

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Bottled water isn't worth the hype. It is not better than tap water at this point in time and is causing more health issues than tap water. The list of why bottled water is worse than tap water is endless. There are many health issues along with issues to the environment. Poor people looking for water in the world are not gaining any benefits from bottled water. This is affecting the health and it's not decreasing the amount of deaths from unhealthy water. The bottles that the water is contained in is made out of PET (polyethylene terephthalat) which comes from the of crude oil and natural gas. PET is hardly ever recycled and is not decomposable. "In the United States, where the volume of bottled water sold last year increased 7 percent from

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