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Bottled Water Should Be Banned

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Don’t ‘Ban’ An Extraordinary Necessity Have you ever noticed the terrible taste of tap water before? San Francisco has recently passed a law banning the sale of plastic water bottles. Why was this careless mistake made? The sale of water bottles on Escondido city property should not be banned due to state of emergency, traveling and convenience purposes, and health benefits. Water can not be banned, so filling stations and reusable water bottles will have to replace them. One reason people think tap water is better than bottled water is because they think bottled water is expensive. A reusable water bottle is more hassle, more expensive, and they get moldy and don’t last. So then, what is the point of calling inexpensive …show more content…

It is so much easier to sell bottled water than to replace it with expensive water bottles and filling stations. On the Washington Post website in the article written by Lisa Rein, it states,“Refilling stations cost anywhere from $2,000 to $15,000….” It is choosing an absolutely humongous bill over clean cheap water. Is it really worth it when bottled water is cleaner? Another reason why bottled water should not be banned but encouraged is because of emergency. What if there is an It is choosing an absolutely humongous bill over clean cheap water. ? Some earthquakes have been so bad that certain charities were looking for people buried in debris for days to weeks. If something even similar to this happens and all people believed in was tap water, they are going to wish they had a bottle of pure water in their …show more content…

It would seem that many people feel it needs to be banned, but why not just encourage the other side and let people have their rights? If the sale of bottled water on Escondido city property is banned, then there is a greater risk in people's health daily and during emergencies. Encourage whichever idea is more appealing, but do not put the other side down and disregard that they have just as much right as anybody else to drink bottled water or

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