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There are so many benefits of water that sometimes we do not even look at the cost of it. Some of the benefits of water can be the taste, health, and convenience. When drinking this water we never look at the effects of it. We do not always benefit from the plastic water bottle. We should consider the environment, and how it may be harming it. What is it that actually makes the water so good and worth buying? How much we can save from no longer using these bottles. An example of this can be seen in the New York Times, even though there are so many good benefits to water, we as Americans never really look at the cost of it, “meanwhile, if you choose to get your recommended eight glasses a day from bottled water, you could spend up to $1,400 annually. The same amount of tap water would cost about 49 cents” (New York Times 20). When looking at these numbers that is really not a lot spent on water, but it is still a lot. Also this is a year not even month to month, in one year just on one person this amount is spent, this is not even for a whole entire family. Therefore the benefits of bottled water do not outweigh the cost.
When looking at the benefits of water we do not look at the other drastic measures of it. What are these bottles actually doing to the environment? They are damaging it that is what they are doing. When we throw out these water bottles, where are they going, they are not just disappearing. The next question is how these bottles are actually being made. It would seem as though these little plastic bottles are just so cheap to make but they really are not. “The Earth Policy Institute in Washington has estimated that it takes about 1.5 billion barrels of oil to make the water bottles American use each year” (New Yo...

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...t our own hands, and yet we choose to pay for it.
Some people may feel that waste and transportation are not big problems. We can find cheap plastic and with that we could save money. The only problem with this is that this cheap plastic still is not helping with the landfills. The more bottled water that we drink, the more expensive it can be to clear these landfills. Also just by recycling a bottle the money is still not being made back. Most places in Michigan, if it is not a can you can recycle the bottle but will not get anything for it. This is just free, so neither you, the company, or the environment is getting anything out of it. Just by switching to tap water there will be no more plastic being put to waste and you are just saving money period. Switching from bottled water to tap water can be a life saver for our great planet Earth for which we call home.

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