Tap Water Vs Water Bottles

We have always been told that we need to drink eight glasses of water a day, but we are not advised what is the best water to drink. Many people think that bottled water is safer and better than tap water, but that is not the case. Bottled water is not regulated like tap water is. Also, the plastic bottle contains harmful chemicals that can leach into the water and cause cancer and other health issues. You can remove the negative impacts of drinking bottle water from your life simply by not drinking bottle water. For added protection, you can buy a filtration system for your tap water at home. When on the go carry your water in a stainless steel water bottle.

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.

The use of bottled water dates as far back as the year sixteen-hundred and twenty two in a town called Malvern in England. They would bottle and sell water from a site called the Holy Well because it was believed to having healing properties.() Nearly four hundred years later we still bottle water, but our reasons have changed from the superstitions of the seventeenth century. Yet despite the reason why being different, the idea is still rooted in superstition. In the modern day, instead of believing that bottled water has healing potential it has become the idea that only bottled water is safe to drink and that water from the tap is unclean and dangerous. These ideas were bred by companies looking to make money off a fear. The reality is that

Imagine how much money we have wasted purchasing water bottles because we believed they were safer. When in reality it is a myth. Tap water, especially in the United States, is completely safe to drink. It is actually beneficial to your oral health because it contains fluoride.

Priscilla Torres goes on to describe the many downsides bottles of water bring to people as well as the environment in “Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water: Rethink What You Drink”. Torres first claims that the water bottles companies can be “misleading” (Torres) with where they tell the public of the waters source. In some cases, companies turn to flat out lying in their “labels” (Torres) and could be serving you potentially “hazardous” (Torres) products.

Tap water is better than bottled water and its more safer because, bacteria can get in the bottle and get people sick. Here are some reasons why, the first reason is that the battle can go in the oceans and make the water sick so the fish can die. The second reason is all the battles go in the salt lake rivers. Lastly tap water is better and more safer to the environment.

In the essay Bad To the Last Drop the author Standage claims that people are wasting money on bottled water when there is no difference between it and tap water. Water is the one thing that all humans need; it is an essential element to keeping us alive because it helps our bodies stay hydrated and helps regulate temperature by creating sweat. The different ways that people receive water varies, but the two leading ways to acquire water in first world countries is from the tap or buying bottles of water from stores. These two methods of getting water are very popular in America and Canada because many people believe that tap water is sanitary and that it isn’t for drinking only for doing things like washing dishes, cleaning, and other tasks so they drink bottle water. While others think that bottle water is the worst option because it causes environmental issues and it isn’t safer than tap water so they drink tap water. I also agree with his claim because bottled water is not safer than tap water, it causes major environmental issues, and huge resource issues.

Everyone needs water in their life. People drink from different sources, some people like tap water while others like bottled water. There is a big differences between both and why people chose one or the other. It’s very important to know what people think regarding this situation. We may be destroying our planter or for instance we could be prevention ourselves from getting diseases.

In these days, people are concerned about what they drink every day and they always pick the right things to drink. People can find many sources of water in everywhere nowadays and they always prefer bottled water for being purified. They abundant tap water because they think that bottled water is much healthier. Companies such as Pepsi and Coca-Cola makes their bottled water looks healthier in their advertisements to get people attentions when they are watching. People have their reasons to choose bottled water over tap water just because of the advertisements that have being featured in televisions with a temptation. Tap water has been avoided when the bottled water can be found almost everywhere. Bottled water is not what people think it

C- I claim that Tap water is equal or even better than Bottled water because of too many factors against bottled. bottle water isn’t as clean as meant to be. “Transporting the bottles and keeping them cold also burns fossil fuels, which give off greenhouse gases.” -Solvie Karlstrom and Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic's Green Guide.

In the United States, Americans consume over 8.6 billion gallons of water annually (HRF, 2014). That is only one country; imagine what number it would get if the other countries are included. Anywhere we go we carry of use bottled water. I can bet that you have bottled water on your hand or somewhere near you. Humans became reliable to the expensive water on the bottle; the bottle that increased pollution and health risk to the Earth. Using and drinking bottled water is worse than using the old tap water.

this explains, that tap water also well regulated as much as the bottled water. In addition, tap water has the same component in the bottled water. (Drinan)

People should do more to avoid drinking bottled water because tap water is safe and healthier than bottled water, then second reason is tap water take less consumption to make, and it is cheaper than bottled water and third reason is tap water does not affect environment as bottled water. Tap water is safe and healthier than bottled water because it is tasted everyday by municipal water supply while bottled water plant are inspected just once every three years. According to msn news, water-bottling plants are required to test coliform bacteria just once a week but municipal water system does it several times in a day. A research done by Dr. William shotyk found that PET bottles leach a dangerous toxin called antimony into water they contain.

Most methods of purifying water used by the bottling companies, with the exception of just a very few, use extreme filtration and ozonation to treat the water before bottling it. Neither of these processes make the water healthier, and they are NOT better than what your water company does at all. Plus the extreme measures of filtration tend to make the water acidic. The concensus between the two main water quality regulating groups [EPA and EWG] and health research is that bottled water is inferior in quality to tap water.

Even though drinking bottle water is widely known as a good choice for your health it comes with great conflicts. Many schools all around sell bottles of water out of vending machines, although this can be a bad thing for the environment, but it also helps students from drinking sugary soda. Even though there are benefits to drinking and using bottled water, there are also many drawbacks. Bottled water can be healthy, but also just drinking from a water fountain can help yourself and the environment. Not many people want to drink community fountains because of the germs and all the people that use them. Even though water is a great need for humans, they normally want to go the easy way; the bottled water way. Water fountains do have many causes of them, germs that it collects, and some even lack filtration systems.