Why You Don’t Need Bottled Water

Bottled water is no different than any other kind of water we use everyday but apparently, that fact didn’t stop people from buying the bottled kind. Every year, people have been buying bottled water in billions worldwide; in fact, manufacturers are still multiplying in numbers just to accommodate this apparent thirst for bottled water.

What started this craze is the notion that tap water is not safe for drinking hence the need to somehow sterilize it to kill everything that is harmful in there. Manufacturers quickly saw this opportunity and came up with the “safe” kind contained in a plastic bottle; to further make this statement clear, they sealed it for the “consumers’ safety”. However, environmentalists believe that it is only done for creating an illusion of safety; just think about all existing advertisements of clear, safe drinking water—this is the power of suggestion at work.

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Bottled Water vs. Filtered Tap Water

Water is something that every human needs to survive. Everyday in the United States people either purchase water bottles at there near by supermarket or simply just drink out of the tap. However, is bottled water even filtered; is it even regulated by the government?

Bottled water can be glacial water, purified water, and spring water. It is said that even most bottled water companies simply put regular ‘tap water’ in each bottle. Of course doesn’t that mean that bottled water isn’t filtered? In the year of 2007, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had announced that they have carried out a four-year study on bottled water. The results were startling; it showed that one-third of the bottled water tested high for contamination.

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