“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.” -Albert Schweitzer.
Currently in the United States environmental activists are trying to ban bottled water. Their reasons are very understandable. Water bottles spend years in land waste facilities after being used, and this is bad for the environment, but, people depend on the manufacturing of bottled water. Through statistics, and people’s opinions, this article will show you the importance of water bottles and how people around the world are so dependent on bottled water, although this does not affect you or me.
For some people in third-world countries bottled water is a life-or-death necessity and they couldn’t survive without it. The Scholastic article, Is Bottled Water Really Better? brings up the startling statistic that throughout the world 780 million people do not have access to safe water, a portion of those people depend on bottled water to stay alive. If we banned bottled water then that portion of 780 million people would have to resort to their own supplies which could result in them getting seriously ill or even die. Yearly, 1.4 million children die from unavailable, clean drinking water; and 3.6 million a year from water-related diseases, 84% children, 98% are living in the developing world, digitalcommons.liberty.edu says. Children are dying because they don’t have access to clean drinking water, children that could grow up and do something great in this world. They don’t have the chance to do this though because they end up dying. We lose so many people and if we supplied bottled water to them we could decrease that. Some places in the world depend on bottled water so this doesn’t end up happening to their children; if ...
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Johnson tries to convince that although bottled water is convenient to use and sometimes even becomes a life savior, it should be avoided at any cost and tap water should only be preferred. This claim allows The Shorthorn readers to be sure that the author is taking account of both positives as well as negatives of bottled water but includes comparatively lots of negative factors to persuade readers that bottled water should be avoided. She supports this claim by reasons such as bottled water has a negative impact on human health, plastic has a negative impact on the environment, and the plastic bottle is just a waste of money and energy. She also supports her claim of convenience of bottled water by talking about reusable water bottles ' convenience. These reasons are important to those readers who prefer bottled water and are not aware of its negative
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For ever water bottle made, non-renewable resources are wasted to produce an unnecessary luxury. For the bottled water Americans enjoy, seventeen million barrels of oil are used (excluding transportation), which could fuel more than 1.3 million cars for a year. Most water is imported and exported from places that are thousands of miles away, like Fiji. Although oil is controversial in nature, for every one liter of water produced, three liters are used; the excess water wasted can supply clean water to the world’s poorest countries. Moreover, the energy used in bottle production can supply energy to over 190,000 homes. The resources that can be replaced by ceasing the production of water bottles can solve many global problems faced by a growing population.
Many people in the United States opt for bottled water instead of tap water. They like to think bottled water is safer for your health because it is in a bottle and not directly from the faucet. They never take the time to realize how much money and plastic they are wasting in a year. Over fifty billion plastic water bottles are bought every year by Americans, and a lot of money is spent. Tap water is natural; therefore, it does not cost anybody a cent to use, so it should be referred to more often instead of bottled water. Although bottled water has its health benefits, tap water has health benefits that are more natural for the human body and the environment.
In today’s society it is uncommon to see people walking around without water. Those who carry water with them either have their water in a reusable bottle or have bought bottled water. Bottled water is the more commonly found type of water carried around, reason being that it is easy to just buy a huge pack so that a person can just grab a bottle a go. The problem with bottled water is that more often than not, the bottle does not get recycled, but instead gets thrown into the garbage. The problem with this is that the bottles end up in a landfill. However, in this past year alone American’s used “about 50 billion plastic water bottles” (Ban The Bottle, n.d., Para. 4). Most people do not see the big difference between bottled water and tap
While watching “The Story of Bottled Water,” I thought to myself, “Is this all true, or is this really being blown out of proportion?” I simply couldn’t grasp the idea that we as consumers are that wasteful. So, I decided to watch the film again to really grasp the narrator’s message. Then it hit me: in high school AP History, we discussed how bottled water started and how it has become a multi billion-dollar company. From a business point of view, it seems so ignorantly deceptive, yet it was absolutely genius. With a little marketing, bottled water became a huge success. However, it is killing the environment and the water is usually comparable to tap water regardless. The “The Story of Bottled Water” is a very well-made short
Nestlé was accused of wasting 30% of water they pump; it’s shocking to know that for one liter of water to reach the shelf takes 80 plus liters of oil and 3 liter of water which is incredibly inefficient. In fact Nestlé intended to increase the amount of production of bottled water calling it the next hot commodity, which is not a good feeling when it comes to sustainability. As a corporation, they have the mentality that if they don’t bottle this water, some other company will. I would like to point out that Starbucks stopped bottling water in California during the time of drought. The issue is many other industries would be using the water for their operations but they actually need it and not creating a problem instead of solving one. Most of the water bottling companies make claims that they are only meeting consumer demand, but rationally thinking who would demand a less sustainable, less tasty and way more expensive than tap water. In 1970s the bottling water industry started, at that time people took it as a joke, but the marketing strategies were designed to scare people about the tap water and pictures of pristine springs and mountains were shown on the labels. Nestlé in one of its ads claimed- bottled water to