Explain What Instigated The Initial Backlash Against Bottled Water
Gurjot Sandhu
ENGWR 300 TTH 10:30 am
Professor Munoz
10/28/14
Journal 7 Bottlemania Chapter 7
Study Questions
1. The title is backlash because people maybe are not buying bottled water anymore. Backlash could be or look like, where people don’t buy a certain object or thing, because of the reputation or history of it. Backlash is from something that people don’t like, whether it’s too expensive, bad reputation, negative purpose of the object or thing, etc.
2. What instigated the initial backlash against bottled water was that it was being way too costly and tax payers wanted to stop contributing to bottled water. Whereas the other issues were that money should be contributed to somewhere more important such as oil.
3. People and organizations attempt to dissuade people from consuming bottled water by saying that the bottled water industry has spent millions to make you sure don’t know what’s actually in the bottled water. That just because the bottled water companies has nice images on their bottles and seems like they make it look healthy and safe when it really isn’t. …show more content…
4.
Fluoride is good to use but not in excess, too much of it can be bad. It’s added to municipal water sources, because it’s to help with peoples teeth. Bottled water didn’t contain fluoride before, but now there’s fluoride being added to it. It’s being added to bottled water because fluoride helps with keeping cavities out of people’s teeth. People distrust fluoride because they consider it mass medicalization and the compound
toxic.
5. Water is tested for microorganisms because the EPA requires public water supplies to be disinfected and tested for crypto, giardia, and viruses. But the FDA doesn’t require the water bottle companies to test for microorganisms. They assume that purified water meets EPA standards since it starts from the tap.
6. Royte says she’s not immune to the appeal of spring water because she said that major brands come from a reasonably protected source, which they contain no chlorination by products. Also, they’re more or less of a natural product.
7. We are not to re-use the plastic bottles because it’s dangerous only if harmful bacteria have grown inside it.
8. Royte still prefers tap water because she’s more confident that drinking tap water is safer and healthier. Such as not having bacteria in the bottle, also it’s not laced with plastic by products. I think she has a good point that bottled water is expensive and it’s not as closely monitored like tap water is.
9. The Fiji story that appeals to the anti-bottle crowd is that in 2007 half the nation didn’t have access to clean water, because of the flash floods that happened, which caused an outbreak of typhoid, leptospirosis and dengue fever. And during these events the Fijians were advised to boil their water or to drink from bottled water. They should not boycott it because there’s no evidence it would actually cause hardship.
10. Under pressure from Corporate Accountability International, Pepsi was forced to spell out public water supply on its Aquafina labels.
11. Some of the positive and negative effects of water charities/ethical waters are that celebrities help advertise their products, which helps their sales and their products become more well known. Also some retails would sell charities/ethical waters by saying that every bottle makes a difference. But the negative effects of it are that they make people’s confidence on tap water go low, which results in low support for upkeep and improving tap water. Also they do nothing to solve the problems of consumers buying bottled water.
12. Brita benefitted from this controversy by their sales going up because they said that the criticism of bottle watered has been good for them. Also they don’t want to waste money on bottled water because they said tap water is pretty good. Brita helps filter tap water which makes it healthier and safer to drink, which resulted more people using Brita filters.
Summary
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Agree/Disagree
ENGWR 300 TTH 10:30 am
Professor Munoz
10/28/14
Journal 7 Bottlemania Chapter 7
Study Questions
1. The title is backlash because people maybe are not buying bottled water anymore. Backlash could be or look like, where people don’t buy a certain object or thing, because of the reputation or history of it. Backlash is from something that people don’t like, whether it’s too expensive, bad reputation, negative purpose of the object or thing, etc.
2. What instigated the initial backlash against bottled water was that it was being way too costly and tax payers wanted to stop contributing to bottled water. Whereas the other issues were that money should be contributed to somewhere more important such as oil.
3. People and organizations attempt to dissuade people from consuming bottled water by saying that the bottled water industry has spent millions to make you sure don’t know what’s actually in the bottled water. That just because the bottled water companies has nice images on their bottles and seems like they make it look healthy and safe when it really isn’t. …show more content…
4.
Fluoride is good to use but not in excess, too much of it can be bad. It’s added to municipal water sources, because it’s to help with peoples teeth. Bottled water didn’t contain fluoride before, but now there’s fluoride being added to it. It’s being added to bottled water because fluoride helps with keeping cavities out of people’s teeth. People distrust fluoride because they consider it mass medicalization and the compound
toxic.
5. Water is tested for microorganisms because the EPA requires public water supplies to be disinfected and tested for crypto, giardia, and viruses. But the FDA doesn’t require the water bottle companies to test for microorganisms. They assume that purified water meets EPA standards since it starts from the tap.
6. Royte says she’s not immune to the appeal of spring water because she said that major brands come from a reasonably protected source, which they contain no chlorination by products. Also, they’re more or less of a natural product.
7. We are not to re-use the plastic bottles because it’s dangerous only if harmful bacteria have grown inside it.
8. Royte still prefers tap water because she’s more confident that drinking tap water is safer and healthier. Such as not having bacteria in the bottle, also it’s not laced with plastic by products. I think she has a good point that bottled water is expensive and it’s not as closely monitored like tap water is.
9. The Fiji story that appeals to the anti-bottle crowd is that in 2007 half the nation didn’t have access to clean water, because of the flash floods that happened, which caused an outbreak of typhoid, leptospirosis and dengue fever. And during these events the Fijians were advised to boil their water or to drink from bottled water. They should not boycott it because there’s no evidence it would actually cause hardship.
10. Under pressure from Corporate Accountability International, Pepsi was forced to spell out public water supply on its Aquafina labels.
11. Some of the positive and negative effects of water charities/ethical waters are that celebrities help advertise their products, which helps their sales and their products become more well known. Also some retails would sell charities/ethical waters by saying that every bottle makes a difference. But the negative effects of it are that they make people’s confidence on tap water go low, which results in low support for upkeep and improving tap water. Also they do nothing to solve the problems of consumers buying bottled water.
12. Brita benefitted from this controversy by their sales going up because they said that the criticism of bottle watered has been good for them. Also they don’t want to waste money on bottled water because they said tap water is pretty good. Brita helps filter tap water which makes it healthier and safer to drink, which resulted more people using Brita filters.
Summary
Examples
Agree/Disagree