Bottled water is simply water from some sources that a company has placed in a bottle for resale. It can have minimal processing – as in natural spring or mineral water, or it can be completely filtered and dematerialized which is to remove minerals in the water to nearly pure, and then added minerals back into the water to make it taste better. In these days, “we drink 15 times more bottled water today than we did in 1976. According to the NRDC (National Resources Defense Council), “more than half of all Americans drink bottled water, and there are more than one-third of the population drinks it regularly”. And we pay big bucks for it, too – over $15 billion a year” (Buddha, pg1-2). The consumption of bottled water is growing at 10 percent a year, faster than any other beverage. Since the bottled water is considered as food which is regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, most people feel bottled water is purer than tap-water. There are many different elements that can be advantage or disadvantage of bottled water. This information which is advantages and disadvantages of bottled water can be useful whether you want to buy or not.
The advantages of bottled water are not as many as its disadvantages. However, people are persuaded to buy bottled water by those alluring advertisements. There are some big advantages of bottled water.
Firstly, it is easy to take with you on a journey. Nowadays, many people will rather have something that is portable for convenience sake; and as we can see from many advertisements, bottled water now comes in much smaller size. Not only that, the health benefits of water have been used by many companies to promote their sales because it is true that water benefits living things in many aspects.
Along with that point, bottled water is an excellent source of clean water for drinking outside the house. Moreover, bottled water can be an emergency source of water in
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