Summary: Why Bottled Water Ruins Our Environment

Trieu Pham
Professor Pilch
English 100
12/11/13

Proposing a Solution: Why Bottled Water Ruins our Environment

Bottled water is a major contributor to the detriment of the environment, and there are many remedies to this issue. The consumption of bottled water is growing rapidly. It is purchased for a wide variety of purposes, varying from convenience to the accessibility and quality of potable water from public systems. As consumers, we are constantly on the go and are sold very highly on convenience. The question to ask is which alternative seems more appealing, water from the city tap or fresh mountain spring water that is nicely packaged for those on the go moments? However, looking at a study done in Cleveland, Ohio, when bottled
Is it any tastier? In taste tests people consistently choose tap over bottled water. Bottled water costs over two thousand times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying two thousand times the price of anything else? How about a ten thousand dollar sandwich? Yet the people of the United States buy over half a billion bottles of water a week. That is enough to circle the earth over 5 times. When bottled water came out most people thought that it was just a passing fad. There was no telling what effects bottled water would have on the general population and therefore had never raised any environmental issues until its sudden level of demand. However, over the years soft drinks companies marketed bottled water in a way that consumers began to believe it as a necessity. As these companies continued to pump water from public water sources and resell it back to the public, the level of pollution increased significantly due to the level of plastic used in production of the bottles. This convenience that was made for human kind has so far become an inconvenience to the environment, and as we progress we have begun to discover more and more environmental causes to disease and disruption. Could it be a possible indication
The fact of the matter is that it does. The environmental issues of bottled water are quite strong. The pacific garbage patch is an island of plastic bottles. Since plastic does not decompose in water, the animals living in the ocean eat the particles. Fisherman catches this fish and people eat the fish. The chemicals within the bottle are now ingested not only by the consumer, but the by consumers families as well. Since many of the plastic particles are crumb sized clean up of the ocean is costly and difficult. This affects everyone. Instead of investing on costly research to clean up the patch, better investments on how to prevent the issue should have been