Bottled Water

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When kids by lunch for school or when they buy beverages, kids make the right choice by choosing bottled water. Imagine if kids didn’t have the chance to get bottled water because it was all banned. Kids will go after sugary and unhealthy beverage. That will make kids be obese, and the health care to treat the kids will be rising. Then the U.S obesity rate will rise and our economy will be destroyed. So, don’t ban bottle water, it plays an important role for us. Water is one of the most beneficial resources ever known. You can live without food for a few weeks, but if you don’t have water you can die within days. I think bottle water is better than tap. Bottle water saves lives, and if you ban bottled water why can’t people ban the sugary and unhealthy drinks. Bottle water skeptics might say that all the corruption between bottled water and tap water will be over if banning bottled water because they aren’t being recycled, and plastic is indestructible and that will lead the bottled water to create an even larger landfill. But these people don’t seem to realize that bottle water is a small part of the landfill and it’s not the bottles problem that it isn’t being recycled, it’s the people. Bottle water is very beneficial because it helps save lives and it keeps you hydrated. When there is a natural disaster or any sort of issue, there is no source of clean water. That’s when bottle water comes to save the day. In the earthquake of Haiti and other severe natural disasters, there wasn’t any clean water to drink, so they had to count on bottled water. In fact, according to IBWA article “Bottled Water Industry provide assistance to Haitian relief efforts,” it stated that, “Throughout the years, bottled water companies have imme... ... middle of paper ... .... Charles Fishman, 13 Feb. 2012. Web. 27 Dec. 2013. http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/13/bottled-water-is-silly-but-so-is-banni ng-it/ • Hochman, Anndee. "Top 6 Myths: About Bottled Water." Marie Claire. Hearst Communication, Inc., 16 Aug. 2007. Web. 27 Dec. 2013. http://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/news/bottled-water-myth-2 • Scholtus, Petz . "The US Consumes 1500 Plastic Water Bottles Every Second, a fact by Watershed." TreeHugger. MNN HOLDINGS, LLC, 15 Oct. 2009. Web. 25 Dec. 2013. http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/the-us-consumes-1500-plastic-water-bottles-every- second-a-fact-by-watershed.html • "Water tops soda as NYC bans sugary drinks." Examiner.com. Clarity Digital Group LLC d/b/a Examiner.com, 16 Mar. 2013. Web. 27 Dec. 2013. http://www.examiner.com/article/water-tops-soda-as-nyc-bans-sugary-drinks

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