Why Is Bottled Water Banned

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Bottled water is widely used and known in the US. It has become part of our culture and ranges second in sales to carbonated soft drinks. Though we Americans love our bottled water, some people have questioned bottled water and think that it should be banned. This is nonsense because bottled water is an important source of hydration and we should not take it away from people. Bottled water should not be banned because in some places fresh water isn’t always available, water is essential after emergencies or natural disasters, and taking away the healthiest choice of hydration in food stores will discourage people from drinking it. Water is crucial to our survival and bottled water is an easy way of getting it. In the US, we have fairly …show more content…

Nowadays there are many safety procedures and survival kits that help keep you safe while and after natural disasters are occurring. During some natural disasters the water from your tap might not be clean enough for you to drink. In every survival kit there is water, most commonly bottled water. There is also canned water and water in pouches but these are hard to open, store, drink out of, reuse, and aren’t very strong. Bottled water is the best choice because it is easy to drink out of, store, reuse, and will stay in one piece throughout the toughest storms, earthquakes, and floods. If bottled water was banned more people would die during natural disasters and other emergencies from lack of fresh drinking water. Bottled water is necessary to our survival and natural disasters can kill great numbers of people. Without bottled water, natural disasters would kill even more of our …show more content…

Bottled water should not be banned because it is a great fresh drinking water source for people who don’t have access to clean drinking water, it helps keep people alive during and after natural disasters or emergencies, and without bottled water more people would want to drink unhealthy drinks such as carbonated soft drinks. Bottled water is important and we should definitely keep it available but people should try to use bottled water only when they absolutely have to, otherwise people should try to use reusable bottles for their water. To help minimize the use of plastic bottles, the government should put a tax on drinks that are packaged in plastic bottles so less people would use plastic bottles. The government should then use the money from the plastic bottle taxes to make reusable bottles cheaper so more people would use reusable bottles instead of plastic bottles. This is a great way of limiting the amount of plastic bottles used and thus help the environment. In the long run, bottled water is vital to us humans and undoubtedly should not be