Tap water

Many people believe tap water is poisonous, toxic or just “bad”. But I support it to a certain extent, depending on the levels of one of the concerns surrounding the tap water safety debate is the additive chlorine. Chlorine is used as a disinfectant in many places in the developed world. The main concern with chlorine-treated water is not danger of ingesting the low levels of chlorine itself, but ingesting the disinfectant byproducts (DBPs) that occur when chlorine reacts with some other…

Water is tremendously important in a person's life. A person could only survive a week without drinking any, and water "regulates the temperature of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes wastes." ("Water Facts of Life") But water comes in different forms, with bottled water and tap water being quite popular. Unfortunately, people see water bottles as being of poor quality. Bottled water is a great choice due to the…

that they drink. This is especially true for the water that they drink. People are starting to realize that some water is good for you, while other water is just plain unhealthy. We are in he water business and realize that providing pollution free and chemical free water is important to the community. What's Wrong With Tap Water A lot of people want to know exactly why they should avoid drinking tap water. Well, the fact is that the tap water pouring out of the kitchen faucet is filled with…

"60-70% of bottled water is not tested" (Waterloo Water Works). That means the one bottle of water that you drank today was probably not tested. On the other hand tap water is tested 2-3 times a day. Bottled water is worse than tap water because it's bad for the environment, costs more, and is unsafe to drink. Bottled water is bad for the environment. First of all, "it takes over 1,000 years to bio de-grade a water bottle (Bottle Water Is Wasteful). In 1,000 years the water bottle will finally…

bottled water hurting or helping us as humans? Many people argue both ways. One side says that bottled water is the best possible source of water. They believe this because it is convenient, easy to carry, and not very hard to get. On the other hand, many people believe that landfills have been growing in size due to bottled water. They also think that bottled water has a much poorer quality compared to tap water. Nicole Cotroneo’s article for The New York Times, “Movement Against Bottled Water…

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…

No, it isn't, no matter, if it's bottled water or if its tap. Let's start in why tap water isn't safe. First, people may think that just because the government is “protecting” it is clean and that it's “drinkable”, well no, it isn't it so happens that it has 80 “regulated” contaminants and more unregulated toxins. Then, there's the fact that most water that we drink has arsenic, fluoride, chlorine these are toxins that are unhealthy. Now what may each of them mean well, arsenic is a toxin that…

reason how bottling water impacts the ecosystem population and biodiversity is that it impacts ocean life in a negative way(pollution). Bottling water is convenient for an easy way to provide clean water. My partner and I think it is completely wasteful in the world. But, is bottling water really affecting our ecosystem? So far we researched how bottled water and tap water are kind of the same. Somehow most Americans believe bottled water is completely way more cleaner than tap water. …

should drink our water from. Some say we should drink it from the purified tap, and others think it’s best to drink it from individual bottled water. The tap can sometimes be quite dirty, but the reason for that is because of the bottled water factories polluting the water. Society today should start drinking from fountains that uses tap water. The reason we should drink from the purified tap instead of bottled water because there’s really no difference in taste or how clean the water is…

What is tap water? Is it safe to drink? What could possibly be in it? What are pros and cons of tap water? These are all frequently asked questions with many concerns because do you really know what you are drinking or where that water came from? Tap water is water that is supplied from a pipe. Now when I saw the word “pipe” it freaked me out because doesn’t water rust pipes? Then all of that rust would get in your water? Most pipes are for household uses but for drinking water use the…