Story Of Bottled Water

The article “Story of Bottled Water”, written by Annie Leonard, is written to convince readers to drink tap water. To begin with, Mrs. Leonard showed audiences what she thinks bottled water companies are doing. She says that most of bottled water in America comes from the tap (Leonard, paragraph 14). The author strongly suggested people to eventually drink tap water, which is 2000 times cheaper than bottled. Furthermore, Mrs. Leonard described environmental issues that were caused by plastic bottles. According to Annie Leonard, eighty percent of plastic bottles land up in landfills, which will take thousands of years to finish the process of disposal, and leave toxic pollution. Finally, Mrs. Leonard states her opinion to drink the tap. Her