Bottled Water
Published on Nov 20, 2015
Slides for my presentation in Professor Davis' ENG151H class.
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Most of us tend to see bottled water nearly everywhere nowadays, but just how far has the industry come?
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In the United States, bottled water saw a volume increase of roughly 1 billion gallons and 1 billion dollars of revenue between the years of 2011 and 2013 (IBWA).
The average American family spends about $1.22 per gallon of bottled water, but the expense can be as much as $7.25 for families that purchase smaller serving sizes (Business Insider).
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The Birmingham Water Works conducted a blind taste test in 2003 that put their tap water to the test against Dasani and Crystal water brands...
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BWW Blind Taste Test Results (Journal [American Water Works Association])
“The marketing of bottled water exploits people's worries about what affects their health in the modern world” (Petrie 1417, British Medical Journal).
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Most of the bottled water that you can purchase in grocery stores comes from groundwater sources.
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Bottled water companies tend to extract groundwater from aquifers at a rate that the resource cannot sustain, which can limit local applications and alter the local water cycle.
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“The excessive removal of water from natural environments may also reduce the water level of local fresh water resources and, therefore, threaten the fish populations and their habitats" (Boldt-Van Rooy 281).
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This extraction can also allow less clean water to flow into the aquifer and contaminate it (Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law).
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Current legislation does not adequately protect many of these resources and is often exploited or exempts bottled water companies from regulation.
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The current legal agreement regarding conservation of the Great Lakes, for example, does not limit the amount of water that bottled water companies can remove.
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So what's the point?
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fin :)
Sources:
Rodwan, John G., Jr. "Bottled Water 2013: Sustaining Vitality." Bottled Water Reporter Aug.- Sept. 2013: 12-22. IBWA. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.
Boesler, Matthew. "Bottled Water Costs 2000 Times As Much As Tap Water."Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 12 July 2013. Web. 14 Nov. 2015.
Petrie, Keith J. "Getting Well From Water: Bottled Water Exploits Our Worries About What Affects Health In The Modern World." BMJ: British Medical Journal 329.7480 (2004): 1417-418. JSTOR. Web. 18 Oct. 2015.
Petrash, Lauren. "Great Lakes, Weak Policy: The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement and Compact and Non-Regulation of the Water "Products" Industry."The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 39.1 (2007): 145-76. JSTOR. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.
Rooy, Tara Boldt-Van. ""BOTTLING UP" OUR NATURAL RESOURCES: THE FIGHT OVER BOTTLED WATER EXTRACTION IN THE UNITED STATES." Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 18.2 (2003): 267-98. JSTOR. Web. 07 Oct. 2015.
Rodwan, John G., Jr. "Bottled Water 2013: Sustaining Vitality." Bottled Water Reporter Aug.- Sept. 2013: 12-22. IBWA. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.
Boesler, Matthew. "Bottled Water Costs 2000 Times As Much As Tap Water."Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 12 July 2013. Web. 14 Nov. 2015.
Petrie, Keith J. "Getting Well From Water: Bottled Water Exploits Our Worries About What Affects Health In The Modern World." BMJ: British Medical Journal 329.7480 (2004): 1417-418. JSTOR. Web. 18 Oct. 2015.
Petrash, Lauren. "Great Lakes, Weak Policy: The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement and Compact and Non-Regulation of the Water "Products" Industry."The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 39.1 (2007): 145-76. JSTOR. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.
Rooy, Tara Boldt-Van. ""BOTTLING UP" OUR NATURAL RESOURCES: THE FIGHT OVER BOTTLED WATER EXTRACTION IN THE UNITED STATES." Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 18.2 (2003): 267-98. JSTOR. Web. 07 Oct. 2015.
