The Importance of Bottled Water in the World

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“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.” -Albert Schweitzer.
Currently in the United States environmental activists are trying to ban bottled water. Their reasons are very understandable. Water bottles spend years in land waste facilities after being used, and this is bad for the environment, but, people depend on the manufacturing of bottled water. Through statistics, and people’s opinions, this article will show you the importance of water bottles and how people around the world are so dependent on bottled water, although this does not affect you or me.
For some people in third-world countries bottled water is a life-or-death necessity and they couldn’t survive without it. The Scholastic article, Is Bottled Water Really Better? brings up the startling statistic that throughout the world 780 million people do not have access to safe water, a portion of those people depend on bottled water to stay alive. If we banned bottled water then that portion of 780 million people would have to resort to their own supplies which could result in them getting seriously ill or even die. Yearly, 1.4 million children die from unavailable, clean drinking water; and 3.6 million a year from water-related diseases, 84% children, 98% are living in the developing world, digitalcommons.liberty.edu says. Children are dying because they don’t have access to clean drinking water, children that could grow up and do something great in this world. They don’t have the chance to do this though because they end up dying. We lose so many people and if we supplied bottled water to them we could decrease that. Some places in the world depend on bottled water so this doesn’t end up happening to their children; if ...

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