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    Bottled Water Versus Cost According to The Water Project, “Bottles used to package water take over 1,000 years to bio-degrade and if incinerated, they produce toxic fumes. It is estimated that over 80% of all single-use water bottles used in the U.S. simply become ‘litter’” (“Bottled Water is Wasteful”). This fact is not the only reason I believe that bottled water does not outweigh its costs. Although statistics show that bottled water is efficient, there are many reasons to believe otherwise.

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    Bottled Water Bottles

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    questions is bottled water. The school board should provide bottled water in every classroom for the following reasons. The first reason the school board should provide individual bottles of water in every classroom is because they're convenient. Water bottles fit in every schoolbag, and are very light to carry. You can take water bottles with you anywhere. “You can take a water bottle on a journey, and you have water at your fingertips,” (flourishonline.com, Jim Jewell). It is good that water bottles

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    bottle and box the water for transportation. Being a start-up, we will bring Coca-Cola Co. into the plan which also happens to be here in NH, and utilize their facilities to transport the bottles. Price As a popular retail food product, bottled water has differing prices, but according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BCM), the average wholesale price per gallon of domestic non-sparkling water cost $1.21. They also note that buyers regularly tend to purchase bottled water in mass from markets

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    Bottled water is one of the heroes of the 21st century. After all, one of the best feelings in the world is cracking the seal of an ice cold bottled water and drinking it without worrying about contaminants and diseases. Bottled water is one of the most accessible resources Americans have today. Elizabeth Royte states, “bottled water can pretty easily be dated back to 1977 when Perrier was introduced to urban areas.” This green glass is not what most Americans associate with bottled water today.

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    How Harmful Can Plastic Bottled Water Be? One of the biggest harms to the world is pollution caused by people. Most of the plastic materials used by people are left to pollute. Bottled water is one of the biggest plastic materials produced. Some people say that bottled water is safer, convenient, and provide jobs to workers in many ways. The reasons for buying bottled water differ. Some people buy bottled water because they don’t like the taste or smell of tap water, while others on the other hand

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    Drinking Bottled Water

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    people already know that using tap water is better for the Earth since the use of plastic is minimal. Nonetheless most people don’t know about the health benefits of drinking bottled water instead of tap water. One of the pros of drinking bottled water is the minerals, vitamins, and flavors added to the water for taste. Not only does bottled water benefit your health, but as well as used for emergency cases such as hurricanes, earthquakes, or tornadoes, bottled water serves as a much more convenient

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    Bottled Water Crisis

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    (Kassirer, “Tools- of Changes). As human’s water is critical for a healthier and long-lasting life lifestyle. So, when picking water, bottled water is the smartest way to go. Bottled water creates jobs, convenient, and fashionable. To begin with, bottled water creates more jobs. There are thousands of people working non-stop, starting from the water inside the bottle being tested to the checkout line. “Companies that manufacture, distribute and sell bottled water products employ over 145,000 Americans

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    gallons of water annually (HRF, 2014). That is only one country; imagine what number it would get if the other countries are included. Anywhere we go we carry of use bottled water. I can bet that you have bottled water on your hand or somewhere near you. Humans became reliable to the expensive water on the bottle; the bottle that increased pollution and health risk to the Earth. Using and drinking bottled water is worse than using the old tap water. How much is one bottled water right? How

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    Water is crucial to life; every human being needs water to survive. Water helps the body by nourishing it, making up most of our body, and helping with a healthy diet. However, people get water in different ways. One way to get this healthy drink is through bottled water. There is a huge debate whether or not bottled water is the way to go. The benefits of bottled water do outweigh the costs by several reasons. Bottled water is commonly more available to the people. For example, when going on vacation

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    were to pass out two label-less water bottles, one filled with tap water and one filled with bottled water, the number of people that cannot tell which bottle contains tap water might be surprising. The difference between tap and bottled water can vary depending on brand, location, and other factors, but there will always be those that stand out. Tap water has many advantages over bottled water in frequent use. While bottled water might have its own convenience, tap water costs less, is tested more frequently

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