What are reasons not to buy bottled water?explain.?!
Answers: this is for a buisness letter not buy bottled water (persuasive writing) i need 3 reasons for each paragraph which means to explain. plz answer =(
the plastic bottle, we need to move away from petroleoum products and they are wasteful
You'll have to write your own paragraphs, but I can give you reasons.
1. The water is no different between bottled water and tap water.
2. Unnecessary expense; tap water is free.
3. Environmental impact of the bottles that don't biodegrade and are not routinely recycled, not to mention the rucks hauling water around the nation.
They have no fluoride content. Some children who only drink bottled water develop cavities.
They make alot of trash. If you don't throw them away you have to recycle them.
Waste of money. Many countries have unclean water supplies. What if we started being thankful for our tap water and donated the money we save on bottled water to people who have no clean water!
Bottled water manufacturers’ encourage the perception that their products are purer and safer than tap water. Bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water. But the reality is that tap water is actually held to more stringent quality standards than bottled water, and some brands of bottled water are just tap water in disguise. What’s more, our increasing consumption of bottled water—more than 22 gallons per U.S. citizen in 2004 according to the Earth Policy Institute—fuels an unsustainable industry that takes a heavy toll on the environment.
Approximately 1.5 million barrels of oil—enough to run 100,000 cars for a whole year—are used to make plastic water bottles, while transporting these bottles burns even more oil.
The growth in bottled water production has increased water extraction in areas near bottling plants, leading to water shortages that affect nearby consumers and farmers. In addition to the millions of gallons of water used in the plastic-making process, two gallons of water are wasted in the purification process for every gallon that goes into the bottles.
Nearly 90 percent of water bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose.
So the next time you feel thirsty, forgo the bottle and turn to the tap. Because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for tap water are more stringent than the Food and Drug Administration’s standards for bottled water, you’ll be drinking water that is just as safe as, or safer than, bottled.
If, however, you don’t like the taste of your tap water or are unsure of its quality, you can buy a filter pitcher or install an inexpensive faucet filter to remove trace chemicals and bacteria. If you will be away from home, fill a reusable bottle from your tap and refill it along the way; travel bottles with built-in filters are also available.
If you’d like to know more about your tap water, the EPA has a list of frequently asked questions about tap water on its Web site. Depending on where you live, you can find a water quality report for your area.
Most bottled water is not fluoridated like tap water is, unless it says so on the bottle. Also, some bottled water contains 1% of your daily intake of sodium (if you're watching your salt intake). I would prefer the bottled water that has 4% calcium instead, but, overall, I prefer tap water. Also, have you noticed the awful taste of some bottled waters? Dasani has a terrible taste. Evian is still the best tasting bottled water out there. Even then, save some money and bring tap water in a nalgene wherever you go, instead.
bottled water adds to plastic waste, land fill and yes they can be recycled but recycling still produces other waste like carbon dioxide, uses electricity etc - this is only a start you can investigate it yourself.
some people believe bottled water is not good for your teeth as there is no added fluoride something that is added to tap water in a lot of places in the developed world
What I've read is that bottled water is more loosely regulated then tap water.Bottled water regulation is "low priority" & bottled water programs at all levels are under funded & seldom used.Some bottled water labels are misleading, implying that the water bubbles up from a mineral spring somewhere in the french Alps, while many companies advertise their products as "natural spring water"there is no legal definition of what constitutes a spring & "natural means only that the content of the water has not been altered, its really hard to tell what your really getting.They try to rip you off by saying something like "spring pure" when they really mean "straight from the tap" & that would be perfectly legal. Though it is not legal to mislabel water as far as its source of purification,there are no laws to prohibit botteling tap water from any municipal source.Its said that at least 25% of bottled water is just tap water.
tap water is actually cleaner than bottled water bc of all the sewage system laws we have in the US and bc of the fact that bottled water comes from springs.
bottled water is a waste of money and wasteful of the resources in the environment because u cant guarrentee that all bottles will be recycled (some will, but most people will throw it in the garbage dump).
i'll leave the last for u... ^_^
they are way too over priced...
thats all I can think of.