Safe Drinking Water Act

bottled water is safer and better than tap water. However, do they know that bottled water is tap water in a plastic bottle? Tap water is actually proven to be better than bottled water, for a number of reasons; it is safe for your health, it is better for the environment, it is filtered more than bottled water, and bottled water is very costly. There is no evidence to prove that bottled water is any safer than tap water. In fact, an estimated 25% or more of bottled water is really just tap…

When Flint decided to stop buying Detroit’s water and switch to new water, they had no idea what was in store. Soon, every Flint civilian was exposed to Lead. Lead can affect children’s brain development, education attainment, and impair the body. Increasing Lead amount in Flint’s water can cause permanent issues in the town members’ health. Flint’s government is at fault here, and it needs to take charge before things get worse. Starting at the beginning, Flint is a fairly poor city. They…

popularity of bottle water growing every day, it brings up the question... Is tap water better for you or bottle water? Which taste better? Which has more nutritional value? Here are a few things I have learned. Tap Water is monitored and regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA) of 1996 , numerous test are conducted to ensure water standards are being met and water is free of contaminates. Most community water supplies…

the faucet handles when they want drinking water or to wash our clothes, for countless of millions more worldwide, this simple act often turns into an ordeal. As such, world organizations from several developed and undeveloped nations convened recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to identify and target the five most urgent needs currently found in every third world nation--be it Latin America, Africa or elsewhere. Our article below lists them as being drinking water, food supplies, energy…

The Liberal Party is aware of the ongoing crises relating to the damage, and diminishment of water bodies such as lakes, and oceans, therefore, they are fully committed to renewing these bodies of water to its most safest, enjoyable, and accessible means. As stated on the Liberal Party’s website, they aim to increase the amount of Canada’s marine and coastal areas that are protected – to five percent…

Say there’s a water tower in the middle of a dying city. Everyone is hurrying to get their supply of water, but don’t know that the water is dirty, making the entire city open to sickness traveling on the water. In 500 BC, a man named Hippocrates found out that clean water would be better. He practiced removing dirt and other dirty things in the water and eventually created the first bag water filter. Since then, water filters have been improving and are much for more efficient than it was…

26 September 2016 “Do the benefits of bottled water overweigh the cost?” Many people choose bottled water over tap water worldwide. Which is really better for our health? Somewhere at some point in time someone came up with the idea of doing away with tap water and moving onto bottled water. It is a common belief that the bottled water is more reasonably priced as well as safer due to the purification process that it undergoes, meaning the water has been cleansed from all the dirty and…

Water contamination is a major issue, both to humans and the environment. There are many ethical issues surrounding companies who may contribute to water contamination and those who govern water safety. Water contamination events can cause nationwide concern, such as the drinking water in the city of Flint, Michigan and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. Water contamination can have disastrous consequences for the human population with effects such as birth defects and…

Ever since there was first news of the switch in water sources, some Flint residents could not believe what they were hearing. “We thought is was a joke” Rhonda Kelso, a long-time resident, says “People my age and older thought, ‘They’re not going to do that.’” But that’s exactly what happened and the unforeseen consequences would be life altering. “Mom... why is the water brown?” Kelso’s daughter would ask her mother. Kelso would try to avoid the water that she believed was sewage ridden and…

Tap water or filtered water? This is a debate that is a never-ending one. Although water in the United States is mostly free of certain microorganisms that can cause certain illnesses there's no real guarantee that it's 100% safe for you. Tap water is chlorinated before it gets to our taps to drink but who wants to drink water that tastes and smells like chlorine? Not to mention how all that chlorine and either added or unfiltered foods can contaminate or change the flavor of the foods that you…