Is Bottled Water Safer Than Tap Water?
Essay by people • August 9, 2011 • Essay • 427 Words (2 Pages) • 1,953 Views
IS BOTTELED WATER SAFER THAN TAP WATER?
As I read the Orlando Sentinel I see that bottled water prices a rising. The water companies are saying because there much more convince. Society does not want to drink up on all these artificial sweets, society want to become much healthier. Instead of people carrying a reusable bottle, a quick stop at the gas station for a bottle and keep it moving. What about at there homes? We are taught that bottled water is much safe to drink instead of tap water. The person spends all this money buying bottled water because is safer to drink. The Orlando Sental says other wise tap water is as safe as bottled water. The water goes thru a excellent cleaning system.
Tap water is goes thru the same cleaning process that bottled water goes thru. Yet we still end up paying much more for bottled water. I guess we been fooled. I think not!
The New York Times is reporting that tap water is night safe after all. This is happing in Charleston,W.VA. Jennifer son has been getting scabs on his body due to the pollution in the tap water. The water is polluted with lead, nickel and other heavy metals according to New York Times. Jennifer's neighbors are going thru the same dilemma.
In the last few years chemical factories are putting illegal amount of concentrated toxins into the water. This concentrated amount of toxins has been going thru the tap water. This has been known to the government, yet the state regulators have never fined nor punish these factories. The Safe Water Act regulates 100 pollutant yet 91 are strictly allowed. WOW!
1 in 10 Americans get sick from drinking water. That is pretty high. The worst type of drinking water is well water. Lucky us Floridians, most of our tap water come from wells, which are not regulated by the Safe Water Act. Well water has carcinogens. A lot of the chemicals in polluted water can cause cancer. Since the cancer cannot be pinned point to the cause of it, it is a pretty much a lost cause.
The Orlando Sentinel is saying tap water is as safe as bottled water. Is it really? If regulators are not regulating tap water, what make me think there not regulating bottled water? Really, what can you trust? Bottled water has become a multi-dollar industry. In some ways so has the Tap water. Cole factories dispose there toxins improperly there making their multimillion who cares. In a weird way, their more similar than not.
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