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Argumentative Essay On Drinking Water

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Water is a very important commodity to live. Some people say it’s a right, but others at as if it’s a privilege, and as a result, people lack it. The human body is about sixty percent water, but in what I have seen just in my twenty years of life, people do not drink merely enough of it. Instead, water has been replaced as a go-to drink by things like milk, coffee, pop, or energy drinks, but natural energy lies in water. With water we can be more energized, awake, and of course, hydrated, which all together collaborate to help us flourish, stay healthy, and live long. It’s most of the earth’s surface, too; water’s all around us, but we neglect it and deny its crucial place in our health and humanity. My parents always told me to “drink milk” at meals, so I grew up thinking water was something one only drank at restaurants to save money. It’s flavorless, not delicious, and lacks and nutritional value. I have learned the necessity of water the difficult way. Safe to say, I did not care about drinking water the majority of my life. I only drank approximately twenty-four ounces of water a day, on a good day, if even that, and that’s just in the past three years. The past two years I have fainted, blacked out, and become dehydrated because I did not drink enough water, so I learned pretty fast into college that if one is going to be running around going so many places and doing so many things as a seminarian that energy was essential. Isn’t coffee or pop a quicker method,

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