Bottled Water Research Paper

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.

My grandmother wakes me around four in the morning to find out if I have bottled water in my possession. I rise from my cot, untangling my pretzel like limbs as I sit up to look at her in the darkness. The cot is hardly a foot off the ground, my ankles hang off the edge, and I have no place to put my upper limbs. “Wake up, I need to change the water.” I need to protect the frog. She is staring at me in the darkness expectantly, wonderingly. A whimsical child trapped in the body of a fountain of wisdom.

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.

Schools all across the nation have been notoriously known for banning a ridiculous ammount of things; one of whixh that is now being considered is water. Belive it or not many schools are now thinking about banning bottled water. The articals ¨Goodbye Bottled Water?¨ ,by Gail Hennessey, and ¨Statement from the Internation Bottled Water Association¨ ,by the IBWA, give very different veiws on this topic. Our schools shoulnt not ban bottled water for many reason such as our rights, our health, and tap water contamination.

The three water bottle reviews that I have read, along with the McCoy review, all were very similar in regards to how they analyzed and critiqued the specific water bottle they each used. The price, the durability, functionality and the style of the bottle were the main focuses of each product. However, the purpose of the reviews varied. Some were informative and helpful with high praise while others were only trying to sell their product. Oddly, they all targeted the same audience only with a very different purpose, which was someone shopping for a water

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

Imagine you live in a small town. You have a nice little house, maybe a dog or a cat. The town went through some rough times during the recent recession, but things are looking up: a new frac sand mine moved in nearby, providing jobs for a large portion of the community. Although there is more traffic because of the mine, it seems relatively harmless. As time goes on, however, you start to feel as if something is off. You haven’t been feeling well, and you suspect it has something to do with your tap water. You switch to bottled water and try to avoid using the public water as much as possible. A couple of years later, the news comes out that the frac sand mine had been contaminating the groundwater, making it unsafe. A dozen questions fill your mind with fear and anger: how has my health been affected? How can this problem be fixed? Will it ever be safe to drink the water again? Why did it take so long for this problem to be acknowledged?

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

“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.

People can do more to avoid drinking bottled water by travelling with a reusable water bottle, boiling the water and using the water purifier. Firstly, whenever people are travelling at any place, they can use the reusable and refilled water bottle. Bottles can be purchased from anywhere and use it for several times with refilling water. By doing this, they can save the environment through avoiding the garbage of bottle. For instance, people can use large bottled water instead of a few small bottles. Secondly, Boiling the water is the best option for everyone. Killing the organism by boiling water is perfect choice for people who require safe and pure water. Boiling the tap water, putting it into reusable

Bottled water shows that people commodify nature a lot, which reflect high value they put on nature. However, bottled water demonstrates the disregard of nature’s complexity, revealing the irony that might leads to the mutual destruction of humans and nature.

Worldwide trends of bottled water are increasing in recent years impacting various regions of the globe. Researchers noticed the links made between obesity problem in the West and increased consumption of soft drinks reinforce the growth of bottled water, therefore, Americans are turning towards bottled water to fill their needs. North America, in particular, the United States usage of bottled water continues to accelerate at rapid rates. Millions of Americans prefer bottled water for hydration, which is becoming a substitution instead of tap water.

Though drinking water is the fundamental need for living, it can be the one to jeopardize our health if we don’t know what we are drinking. Due to the rampant human population explosion and over-exploitation of natural resources, drinking water has been a major crisis in the modern society. Bottled water has become one of the convenient ways to overcome the problem of drinking water but lately, it has various concerns regarding its impact on health, environment, and extravagances. In the article, “Bottled water, go away” the author speaks about the negative and the positive aspects of drinking bottled water. The author of the article is an adds coordinator and the audiences of the article are all the human on this planet who is the consumer of the bottled water. In the article, Johnson uses ethos, pathos, and logos to make her point convincing among the readers. The use of expert’s opinions, various facts and statistical reports, results of various surveys and researchers, etc. in the article implies that she has researched the topic and establishes her credibility among the audiences to speak about the topic. The central claim of the article is, though bottled water has both negative and positive aspects, the aware consumers should be conscious of the possible consequences while choosing the bottled water.

I decided write a report on bottled water as it is the fastest growing beverage in the world with no signs of demands for it abating in the near future. According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research global bottled water market was valued at $157.27 billion in 2013, which is expected to reach $279.65 billion by 2020, growing at a rate of 8.7% from 2014 to 2020. By volume, global bottled water market is expected to grow at a rate of 8.3% during the forecast period from 2014 to 2020 to reach a market size of 465.12 billion litres by 2020. In 2013, volume of the market was 267.91.billion litres. The global bottled water market is dominated by Asia, Europe, Mexico and the US, which account for over 60% of the market value with strong growth in India. Over the past five years alone, bottled water has increased its “share of stomach” of the overall beverage market from 14.4 percent in 2009, to 17.8 percent in 2014. It is predicted that by 2016 bottled water will be the number one packaged beverage sold in the United States. The demand is down to rising concern for health and wellbeing and also clever marketing campaigns and bottle designs.