Bottled water

Water parks, water slides, and water fights! Being at Splash Valley can be a blast; having a neighborhood water fight can be more fun than Splash Valley. But one thing that is not fun is finding out that bottled water can be contaminated. Water is essentially the most important substance the human body needs. Approximately 3.9 trillion gallons of water are consumed in the U.S. per month (Water). Some of this water is also bottled water, which is foreseen as the healthier way to go compared to…

Bottled water is defined as “drinking water, often spring water, sometimes carbonated, sealed in bottles and usually certified as pure”(Dictionary.com 1). A plastic water bottle is such a common item that it is seen by any given person in America almost every day. This simple part of everyday life should not be completely eliminated from schools because of its extreme popularity, coming in second in sales to soft drinks. Americans have purchased over eleven million dollars in bottled water,…

Every day consumers make the decision to either purchase a water bottle or drink water from the faucet. Consumers base their decisions on taste, ads, or labels, even though the labels are just for hype. For example, Margolin said if the fine print was looked at carefully, consumers would see that Everest Water does not come from Mount Everest; their water comes from Corpus Christi, Texas. Also, another brand of bottled water, Glacier Clear Water does not come from a glacier in Alaska like it may…

it comes to drinking water. However, you should definitely consider choosing filtered water. Below is a list of reasons you should drink filtered water: Dangerous Elements And Compounds Removed From Drinking Water Your tap water may have a number of dangerous elements and compounds in it. Arsenic is an example of something that may be in your drinking water. Arsenic is a carcinogen, and it has been linked to cancer. Aluminum is something else that may be in your drinking water. It has been…

sixty million water bottles a day, and for every five water bottles consumed, one is recycled. The length of time for plastic water bottles to decompose is between four hundred and one thousand years. People may choose to drink bottled water over tap water with the misconception that it is the cleaner, tastier, or even a healthier choice. The rate at which people are consuming bottled water is causing landfills to be filled with approximately seventy-five percent of the plastic water bottles…

The ever popular water bottle barely existed half a century ago in the United States. Although there were high end imports that people could buy, they were more of a fashion statement rather than the necessity as we see it today. Most Americans saw and used water from the tap on a daily basis because it was all they had ever known, until the simple water bottle boomed into an everyday resource. Starting with huge sales in the 1990’s, the water bottle industry, worth over $22 Billion dollars, has…

As you consume bottled water, you are also taking the risk to get cancer and various reproductive damages. Human body need water, it is our biological needs. However, people choose to drink bottled water is just for them to meet their secondary needs. If you could choose between bottled water and drink water fresh out from the tap, I believe you would go for bottled water. No doubt that our body needs water to survive. In US, most of the people have the access to tap water, but there is a large…

definition of bottled water is “drinking water, often spring water, sometimes carbonated, sealed in bottles and usually certified as pure” (dictionary.com) According to the same website, www.dictionary.com, the definition of tap water is “water, obtained directly from a faucet or tap, that has not been purified, distilled, or otherwise treated”. The history of bottled water is important because it tells when and where it was founded. There are multiple differences between tap water and bottled…

unaware of what is actually in their tap water in our homes. Most people are only informed by the news when there are outbreaks in our water supply resembling to e coli and deadly water amoebas. This usually tends to cause a scare and most people would think to solve this problem would be to start drinking bottled instead of tap water, but what do we even know about bottle water. Is bottled water better for us? There have been a lot of speculations of tap water being bad for us especially when…

Bottled water is one of products popularly consumed for the previous few decades. Because of the marketing of bottled water, people prefer to drink bottled water rather than tap water. Research has shown the fact that bottled water may not be as safe as the water provided by local utilities. So, why do people choose to drink bottled water and is bottled water as pure as advertised? There are also concerns about the effects of bottled-water on human health and the natural environment, due to the…