resource for human life has now become one of the most dangerous things to consume. Bottled water is plaguing our environment and big corporations are making a huge profit from this necessity. The film Tapped delves into the ways that these big corporations are making big money off of bottled water‚ and what it is doing to our health and our environment. These companies are taking water from lakes without paying for it and they are creating drought. Then they are bottling up this water in plastic bottles
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Products With an expected water shortage by the year 2025‚ Nestle has invested $100 million to build a new water bottling plant in Mecosta. The new bottling plant employs about one hundred people and pays them between $12 to $23 an hour‚ which is significantly more than the local jobs are paying around Mecosta. Despite the “positives” nestle has created with this new bottling plant project‚ not all local residents are happy about it. Nestle has began to pump water from Sanctuary Spring‚ which
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Tap water seen as the better choice There have been on-going debates; “Whether bottled water is better for you?” This debate always ends up with two different sides. Some people prefer bottled water over tap water for several reasons‚ but others think variably. In my personal opinion‚ I think bottled water is the same as tap water for a numerous reasons. Bottled water is expensive‚ it creates a lot more pollution in the landfill‚ and lastly bottled water is not any better‚ healthier or safer
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characteristics of the bottled water industry? If we define the economic characteristics in term of macro environment‚ there is several ways that we can categorize as the follow; Market size and growth rate The bottled water industry has a high potential in growth rate and in the terms of sales volume or per capita consumption rate. For example‚ the United States’ capita consumption of bottled water lagged those of soft drinks by more than a 2:1 margin. In term of bottle water‚ the majority of
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Environmental Effects of the Bottled Water Industry Environmental Science Environmental Effects of the Bottled Water Industry I myself am a firm believer in drinking only bottled water under the belief that it is safer‚ cleaner‚ and better tasting. I also believed that the bottled water industry couldn’t be polluting the environment. After all how could something so natural be bad for the environment? In the research that follows I will explain just how wrong I really was in my beliefs
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saying that one is better than the other and so on and so forth. One person will say ‚”that bottled water is better” and another will say‚” no way tap is better.” Almost like the on going argument that went on in Bobby Bushay’s head in the movie Water Boy where he was saying H2O is better than Gatorade. But when it truly comes down to it tap water is really the winner. It’s better than bottled water in many ways in general. Firstly it costs a whole lot less than bottled water‚ secondly because most
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Ideas Master Test 1 Question 10 Paragraph: a. Anxiety disorders‚ in which normal anxieties have become exaggerated or unrealistic‚ take several forms. b. A phobia is an anxiety disorder in which an unrealistic fear interferes with a person’s normal life. c. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa (refusing to eat) and bulimia (bingeing followed by purging) are thought to be anxiety disorders. d. Obsessive-compulsive behavior is an anxiety disorder characterized by persistent‚ unrealistic ideas (such
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Dangers of Bottled Water General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will able to describe the dangers of Bottled water. Central idea: Bottled water is not as safe as people believe it to be. Organization Style: Cause and Effect I. Introduction Attention getter: “Every five minutes in the U.S over 2 million plastic bottles are used (Arrey).” Americans drink about 7 billion gallons of bottled water a year that’s about $8 billion dollars in
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Bottled Water vs. Tap Water In today’s society drinking water from a plastic bottle has become the norm‚ but just a few decades ago this action was not the case. During the late 70’s a French company named Perrier introduced bottled water to America and convinced people of the fact that drinking water from a bottle would make people look cool‚ so they advertised a new fashion of consuming this precious liquid. Companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsico saw the opportunity to start a division of bottled
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Nestlé-Danone and the bottled water sector 1) Presentation of the structural features of the bottled water industry. a) strategic segmentation. There are four different family of product in the bottled water market : * mineral water ; they are spring waters with specific properties such as medical treatment. They cannot be processed. * spring water ; they are naturally pure and from groundwater as mineral water. No treatment shall be given to them. They are on average three times
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