Transcript Water: Enough or Not Enough

Water
By: Jennifer Katasse
“This is an industry that takes a free
liquid that falls from the sky and sells
it for as much as four times what we
pay for gas.”
Should We Be Using Bottled
Water?
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Popular brands such as
Dasani and Aquafina use
municipally treated tap
water
Tap Water- “10 times the
quality, 1/10th the cost, and
no pollution!”
It takes 3 times as much
water to produce the bottle
as it does to fill it
An estimated amount of 2.5
million tons of carbon
dioxide is created by the
production of plastic for
water bottles
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Why Bottled Water?
 Most
countries without
access to clean drinking
water turn to bottled
water
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Mexico, Brazil, China and
Indonesia
Because… they don’t have
safe water to drink
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Recycling
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Nine out of Ten plastic
water bottles are not
recycled
Plastic bottles take up
land fills and as they sit
in the ground… they
create toxic waste that
leaks into ground water
Of the “36 billion bottles
sold in 2006, only one
fifth were recycled”
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Waste of Oil
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1.5 million barrels of oil
is enough to fuel
100,000 cars which is
wasted when making
plastic water bottles
U.S. production of
bottled water requires
an average of 17
million barrels of oil
Bottled water has to be
transported by boat,
train, airplane, or truck
which burns the limited
fossil fuel’s we have
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What’s in the plastic?
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Bottles such as Nalgene contain BPA’s (Bisphenol
A)
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Endocrine disrupter which can mimic the body’s own
hormones causing negative health effects
BPA’s have been known to leech from the plastic lining of
canned foods
Plastic water bottles such as Dasani contain
polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic derived from
crude oil
When burned( because most isn’t recycled), it
creates harmful chemicals that are released into
the air that are harmful towards humans and
animals
Re-using water bottles is not recommended
Who Monitor’s It?
 Tap
Water is regulated by the
EPA(Environmental Protection Agency)
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It is their job to make sure tap water is safe
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water is regulated by the FDA
It is categorized as a “food”
May be less clean than tap
Don’t have to monitor the contaminant levels
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Possible Solutions
Banning Bottled Water All Together
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Countries such as Australia hope to
become the first to ban the sale of bottled
water
Only reason: to save the earth
The townspeople all agreed it was a
waste of money and resources
Other Solutions
Some believe bottled water tastes much
different than tap…
Using filters such as Brita can deliver
filtered water like bottled water but no
cost
Use little to no energy to filter water
Remove more dangerous
contaminants than any other filter
system
My Opinion
I
think it’s a waste of money and oil
There should be a bigger push for
clean tap water around the world
It’s a bigger waste of money to ship
the bottled water around the world
Our Rivers, Lake, Reservoirs, Aquifers
and underground resources cannot
take it anymore
Works Cited
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<www.bottledwaterblues.com>.
Lapham, Steven S. "Bottled or Tap? A Controversy for Science,
Economics and Society." Social Education 2009: 236-39. Print.
"The Trouble with Bottled Water." Progressive Kid. Web. 7 Dec. 2009.
<http://www.progressivekid.com>.
Barlow, Mauda. Blue Covenant. Melbourne VIC: Black Inc, 2008. Print.
Aslam, Abid. "Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?" One World US. Web. 9 Dec. 2009.
<http://www.us.oneworld.net/node/126829>.
"Bisphenol A." Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Web. 28 Dec. 2009.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A>.
"Standards and Regulations for Bottled Water." All About Water - Read, Learn, and Know
about Water. Web. 04 Jan. 2010. <http://www.allaboutwater.org/regulations.html>.
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