Essay About Cold Water And Convenience Of Bottle Water

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Is there anything better when youre thirsty than a glass of ice cold water? Maybe a cold
beer thats been iced down. I like water and have always drank a lot of it iced. Before bottled
water, if people wanted a drink of water, they took it from the kitchen tap or if they out and about
a very environmentally-friendly water fountain (some of which were operated solely by gravity,
no electricity needed to get water from a tap). Oh the convenience of bottle water! It is
convenient, much more portable than getting water from a tap. Buying bottled water might even
make you feel safer, less likely than tap water to become contaminated, which is a growing
worry nowadays, thanks to terrorists. Bottled water is about time and energy savings for me.
Buying bottled water means not having to purchase and fill my own container. The ability to
purchase water readily means that I can obtain water when I want it, rather than carrying around
a bulky container all day. And when my thirst is slaked, disposal is just a trash can away; theres
no need to bring the bottle home and wash it and refill it myself. Somewhere in the past 20
years, weve moved from accepting water from a water fountain to accepting the exact same or
very similar water from a rarely-recycled plastic bottle. Were buying bottled water because its
there and we are drawn to convenience (most bottled water sold is plain old tap water, not spring
water or other specialty water). Having water at your side is more convenient than searching out
a public water supply (unless, of course, youre at home, work, or some other usual place — you
have no reason to be grabbing a bottled water at any of these places. For something that can be
so refreshing, in fact, the disposal question may be the most troubling.
A great concern to me is the millions upon billions of plastic bottles that get thrown into
landfills, waters ways and our oceans. Beyond the problem of water quality is the problem