Why Do We Drink Bottle Water?
Bottle water is everywhere. Americans are drinking bottled water like never before. Every second of everyday in the US, a thousand people buy and open up a plastic bottle & every second a thousand of plastic bottle are thrown away. According to Sandra Alters in Water: no longer for granted 85 million bottles are consumed a day.
So there come a lot of questions in my head: Why do we buy bottle water? Where is the source of water? Where these plastic bottles go when we throw them away?
Today, I want to share with you what I have learnt about reasons we buy bottle water, the quality of the water, the source where it is taken from, and what happen to a plastic bottle.
Let look at some of the reasons we buy bottle water.
We buy bottle water for varieties of reasons: Fear of tap water, taste and convenience
We try to avoid tap water as much as possible because hear the news that filled with stories about water contamination.
We also don’t like how our tap water tastes because we think it is polluted by things we cannot see and smell.
We usually seek the convenience of little portable packages of water that available everywhere.
It seems that the quality of water has good reputation but is it true?
At first glance, there are far fewer problems with bottle water quality than the quality of tap water. There are two possible explanations for this: either its safer or we’re just ignorant the true problems with bottled water.
The US national water-quality laws have been in place in one form or another for many decades for protecting public health. However, the federal agencies have no authority over bottled water.
Instead, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate bottled water because it is considered a “food product” sold in individual containers.
This explains the nutritional label found on US bottled water which carefully & also uselessly.
FDA rules determine how bottled water quality is checked but in fact most FDA inspection doesn’t involve
So there come a lot of questions in my head: Why do we buy bottle water? Where is the source of water? Where these plastic bottles go when we throw them away?
Today, I want to share with you what I have learnt about reasons we buy bottle water, the quality of the water, the source where it is taken from, and what happen to a plastic bottle.
Let look at some of the reasons we buy bottle water.
We buy bottle water for varieties of reasons: Fear of tap water, taste and convenience
We try to avoid tap water as much as possible because hear the news that filled with stories about water contamination.
We also don’t like how our tap water tastes because we think it is polluted by things we cannot see and smell.
We usually seek the convenience of little portable packages of water that available everywhere.
It seems that the quality of water has good reputation but is it true?
At first glance, there are far fewer problems with bottle water quality than the quality of tap water. There are two possible explanations for this: either its safer or we’re just ignorant the true problems with bottled water.
The US national water-quality laws have been in place in one form or another for many decades for protecting public health. However, the federal agencies have no authority over bottled water.
Instead, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate bottled water because it is considered a “food product” sold in individual containers.
This explains the nutritional label found on US bottled water which carefully & also uselessly.
FDA rules determine how bottled water quality is checked but in fact most FDA inspection doesn’t involve