Bottled Water Industry Study

Imagine in 5 years time stepping outside to get in your car and you are being attacked by plastic bottles! Yes its true plastic bottles are taking over land fills everywhere on the planet.

“The Story of Bottled Water” by Annie Leonard’s central purpose is about how bottled water is less environmentally-friendly, less tasty, and less safe, but more expensive. The author wants action to be taken to ban water bottles and increase the access of safe tap water to all.

I have always found it sort of curious when I see people buying bottled water. My grandfather told me that when he was a boy they drank water from the hose and it was free. I know growing up our household certainly didn’t bother with things like that, so facet water is what we got as well. The costs of groceries these days is expensive, spending extra money on water always seemed like such a waste to me. Now, that being said, some people live in areas where the water isn’t very clean, and buying bottled water is much safer than drinking the city’s water. Also, bottled water has become more popular because it is paired as a service; Bottled water is easy to grab on the go. It takes more time to find a water bottle, with a lid, and fill it up than to grab an already bottled water.

From helping the daily jogger stay hydrated during a run to that mom and family trying to stay hydrated at the amusement park, bottled water has had a lot of good to it. However do those goods outweigh the bad? In “Bottled Water: Friend or Foe?” by Christopher Castillo, Diana Goettsch, Angela Reid, and Catherine Sterling argue bottled water are our worst enemy, reasons being the bottle itself has harming chemicals within it which we are drinking, bottled water damages our environment, and lastly we are spending more on bottled water when we have the same water coming from our sinks.

The other dayI caught a report concerning excess of nitrates in the water in one of the communities in which our family once lived. having gone through this before in that neighborhood, I said a quick prayer for all of our friends who live and work there. The excess is for most, simply a inconvenience. You need to be careful, drink bottled water etc., until the nitrates have been flushed out of the water supply.

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According to the article “cision” “Nestle Waters North America Donates more than 1 million bottles of water to hurricane Harvey Relief.” That was only a portion of how much bottled water was donated to hurricane harvey survivors and bottled water isn’t just for natural disaster survivors. So the next time you think of getting rid of bottled water think of all the people whose lives you could save. Don’t ban bottled water.

In Flint, Michigan, residents had high levels of lead in their water. The problem arose when the budget cuts were being made by the city’s government to decrease the debt. The city switched to Flint River as their water source without testing the water for harmful substances. Many residents were having medical issues but government officials ignored them. Also, many families could not afford bottled water and had to keep using tap water. A pediatrician found the problem when they observed the result of blood tests from residents of the town. The city switched back to their original water but it was too late, the lead had already corroded the pipes. As parents began to get more worried for their children’s health the federal government

In the most recent episode of Most Expensivest Shit, the show where the Grammy nominated rapper 2 Chainz “sets out to find the most outrageous luxury goods on the planet,” he and Diplo sampled bottled water, but not just any bottled water, one hundred thousand dollar bottled water. He and Diplo met with America’s only water sommelier, Martin Riese, who explained the difference between the many types of water available for drinking. In the nearly five minute video, Diplo and 2 Chainz are first taught the difference between bottled waters. While most people think all water is the same, according to Riese, it is not. As the rainwater falls, it runs through different areas picking up different minerals along the way. Therefore what is collected in one area can be completely different than water collected somewhere else, giving it an entirely

The similarities between the two sources is that they both address the importance of water, more specifically to the sustainability of our environment. With the video Blue Gold stressing the importance of a natural water cycle and the video The Story of Bottled Water stressing the importance of tap water. I feel both sources basically state that the reason for the water crisis, water wars are due to water being viewed and treated as a commodity for economic profit rather than a commodity for ecological sustainability and the progression of life. The sources differ in which the first video addresses the water crisis from a global economy, world perspective considering all disciplines that have led to this crisis, especially the monetary aspects.

Part 1 (water): At the Memorial Union Market and Café, there was a total of four different types of bottled water. In the bottle water, Dasani Lemon Water, the ingredients found were citric acid, natural flavors, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, calcium disodium EDTA, sodium citrate, sucralose, phosphoric acid, and acesulfame potassium. The ingredients are used for various purposes in the water. Citric acid, sodium citrate, and phosphoric acid are used to replicate the tartness found in lemons. Potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, and calcium disodium EDTA are used to preserve the taste of the water and to prevent the growth of microorganisms. Sucralose and acesulfame potassium are used as low-calorie sweeteners. Natural flavors is added

The title of the study is An Exploration of Bottled Water Behavior. The researchers were Vivien Ngo, who is a student from Anglia Ruskin University and the supervisor of the study is Dr. Chris Foulds.

“One of the biggest challenges facing the bottled water industry is how to respond to the environmental claims levelled against it” (Grocer). Every time someone throws a bottle away, they have taken up more space in a landfill for the next four hundred fifty to one thousand years. Besides the long decomposition rate, water bottles are the cause of several more environmental issues. Overfilling landfills, health hazards caused by refilling, and the economic stresses due to the constant and inconvenient repurchasing are just a few of the negatives water bottles have on us. These plastic pollutants are doing more harm to both the environment and their users than good.

Highland Spring is the UK's largest producer of bottled water. On its website, Highland Spring advertises: "We've been drawing our natural spring water from the same protected land in the Ochil Hills, Perthshire, Scotland since 1979. But the special rock formations below, which make Highland Spring as pure as can be, are the same today as they were 400 million years ago" (About us, 2012, Highland Spring). The company stresses both the 'oldness' of its brand and also its Britishness, given the connection it has to Scotland, the British Isles in general, and rock formations that have existed for millions of years. "In 1503, King James IV of Scotland announced that the local beer, made with water drawn from the same land as Highland Spring, was to be his Coronation Ale" (About us, 2012, Highland Spring). Highland Spring also capitalizes upon organic trends in its marketing, stressing that all of its water is certified organic and that the company is careful to preserve the environment in the way in obtains its water. "An extraordinary 15 years trickling its way through the basalt" is required to make the perfect water (About us, 2012, Highland Spring). This paper will use two common marketing rubrics SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental positioning) to analyze the

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