Compare And Contrast Bottled Water Vs Tap Water

Pure water is a necessity for human life to not only survive but thrive. The human body runs much like a machine with water making up 60 percent of the body. Water being a crucial fuel nobody wants their body to run on polluted as well as inefficient fuel. The best form of water is tap water it’s cleaner, cheaper and better for the environment than the bottled alternative.

Tap water is far cleaner than bottled water due to how frequently tap water is tested for contaminants. An example being “bottled-water plants must test for coliform bacteria just once a week; city tap needs to be tested 100 or more times a month” (“Bottled Water”). Tap water being tested 100 times a month, which when factored down to three times a day it’s no wonder tap water is so pure. Tap water is also not exposed to the chemicals found in plastic bottles which can slowly leak into the water they hold. Almost all bottled water has harmful chemicals leaking into the water they hold because when you go to buy a package of bottled water, it’s not found safely refrigerated in the cold section instead it’s found on the lower shelves of the drinks aisle. Tap water isn’t exposed to those harmful chemicals also can

Once the cost of having a well for tap water put in had been paid ounce for ounce it is the cheapest option. When buying bottled water, the goes up for several reasons like the cost of transportation, companies must raise the cost of their product to cover expenses. This includes all the costs of packaging the product as well as marking up the price for having a brand name. A man in New York did the math to see just how much more bottle water was, he said “filling a 16.9-ounce bottle with genuine NYC tap water costs about 1.3 tenths of a cent, compared to $1 to buy bottled water” (Bottled Water: $346 per Year). Tap water can get around those expenses by just refilling a container repeatedly with tap