Water

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Water

• By Jennifer Katasse

This is an industry that takes a free liquid
that falls from the sky and sells it for as much
as four times what we pay for gas.
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Should We Be Using Bottled Water?

• Popular brands such as Dasani and Aquafina use
  municipally treated tap water
• Tap Water- 10 times the quality, 1/10th the
  cost, and no pollution!
• It takes 3 times as much water to produce the
  bottle as it does to fill it
• An estimated amount of 2.5 million tons of carbon
  dioxide is created by the production of plastic
  for water bottles

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Why Bottled Water?

• Most countries without access to clean drinking
  water turn to bottled water
• Mexico, Brazil, China and Indonesia
• Because they dont have safe water to drink

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Recycling

• Nine out of Ten plastic water bottles are not
  recycled
• Plastic bottles take up land fills and as they
  sit in the ground they create toxic waste that
  leaks into ground water
• Of the 36 billion bottles sold in 2006, only one
  fifth were recycled

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Waste of Oil

• 1.5 million barrels of oil is enough to fuel
  100,000 cars which is wasted when making plastic
  water bottles
• U.S. production of bottled water requires an
  average of 17 million barrels of oil
• Bottled water has to be transported by boat,
  train, airplane, or truck which burns the limited
  fossil fuels we have

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Whats in the plastic?

• Bottles such as Nalgene contain BPAs (Bisphenol
  A)
• Endocrine disrupter which can mimic the bodys
  own hormones causing negative health effects
• BPAs have been known to leech from the plastic
  lining of canned foods
• Plastic water bottles such as Dasani contain
  polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic derived
  from crude oil
• When burned( because most isnt recycled), it
  creates harmful chemicals that are released into
  the air that are harmful towards humans and
  animals
• Re-using water bottles is not recommended

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Who Monitors It?

• Tap Water is regulated by the EPA(Environmental
  Protection Agency)
• It is their job to make sure tap water is safe
• Bottled water is regulated by the FDA
• It is categorized as a food
• May be less clean than tap
• Dont have to monitor the contaminant levels

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Possible Solutions

• Banning Bottled Water All Together
• Countries such as Australia hope to become the
  first to ban the sale of bottled water
• Only reason to save the earth
• The townspeople all agreed it was a waste of
  money and resources

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Other Solutions

• Some believe bottled water tastes much different
  than tap
• Using filters such as Brita can deliver filtered
  water like bottled water but no cost
• Use little to no energy to filter water
• Remove more dangerous contaminants than any other
  filter system

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My Opinion

• I think its a waste of money and oil
• There should be a bigger push for clean tap water
  around the world
• Its a bigger waste of money to ship the bottled
  water around the world
• Our Rivers, Lake, Reservoirs, Aquifers and
  underground resources cannot take it anymore

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Works Cited

• Bottled Water Blues. Doss Holdings Inc, 2002.
  Web. 2 Dec. 2009. ltwww.bottledwaterblues.comgt.
• Lapham, Steven S. "Bottled or Tap? A Controversy
  for Science, Economics and Society." Social
  Education 2009 236-39. Print.
• "The Trouble with Bottled Water." Progressive
  Kid. Web. 7 Dec. 2009. lthttp//www.progressivekid
  .comgt.
• Barlow, Mauda. Blue Covenant. Melbourne VIC
  Black Inc, 2008. Print.
• Aslam, Abid. "Bottled Water Nectar of the
  Frauds?" One World US. Web. 9 Dec. 2009.
  lthttp//www.us.oneworld.net/node/126829gt.
• "Bisphenol A." Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Web. 28
  Dec. 2009. lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol
  _Agt.
• "Standards and Regulations for Bottled Water."
  All About Water - Read, Learn, and Know about
  Water. Web. 04 Jan. 2010. lthttp//www.allaboutwate
  r.org/regulations.htmlgt.

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