"Water" Reflective Response

“According to government and industry estimates, about 25 percent of bottled water is actually just tap water, often with no further treatment.” Page 95.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-bottled-water-compare-to-tap-water

This fact alone, completely blows my mind. I’m actually not a huge fan of drinking water (I feel as if it’s too plain), but I can definitely appreciate what it does to the human body and how it helps the planet. As I started my year pff working to improve my weight and health, I’ve found myself buying many cases of bottled water. I definitely recycle the used water bottles, but I never in a million years would have thought that the bottled water I’d been buying was nothing more than just the average tap water from the drain. That thought saddens me.

I’ve been adding more plastic to the environment, all for the sake of the same stuff that I could have gotten by flipping on the faucet. I could have saved myself some money and I could have contributed to saving the environment in the process. Do I have reusable bottles at home—yes. But the fact becomes, I just wasn’t aware that there was no additional treatment to the water. There was nothing done to it that made it healthier to drink, made it taste better than average faucet water.

It’s the same thing. And you know what comes to my mind at that statement? Do other people know this? Is this something I can share with others to save them time and money, and the planet, too? Will it even make a difference? Well, who knows? But I’m gonna try. I’m gonna share this with those around me, because who knows… maybe there’s someone in my life who thought the same things I did. Maybe this information can be the rock tossed into a body of water, until this knowledge ripples out to many.

Resources

Robertson, M. (2017). Sustainability Principles and practice. Routledge.

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