What I learned about Bottled Water

Today in class my teacher had us do three things. We had to fist do a survey, second watch a watched two videos, lastly we had to taste samples of water. After we tasted the water we had to grade it in the different categories.

The survey was about bottled water and it asked three questions. The first question  was how offten do you drink bottled water. My answer to this was more the 1x/day. The second was why do you drink bottled water. I said that I drink it because bottled water tastes better than tap water. The finally question that survey asked was how much do you pay for water. I didn't really know how much I payed for water so I guesses and saidn$0.50-0.99/bottle.

As is said after we did the survey we watched two videos. The first video that I watched was about Bottled Water vs Tap Water. The video stated that many people say that they trink bottled water because it tastes better and tap water tastes like sewer. After doing tests on the tap water and 5 different brands of bottled water they realized that there was no difference between them.

The second video was called The Story of Bottled Water. The lady in the video said that when you typically test bottled water against tap that some the bottled is cleaner and sometimes it isn't. She said  that in many ways bottled water is less regulated than tap. In taste test around the country people choose tap water more than bottled. A while back when companies were starting to make bottled water people laughed and said that they get water practically for free. Because of this the companies started to scare people into thinking that the tap water was not safe. 1/3 of all bottled water in the U.S.   comes from the tap they have just been filtered. The video also stated that wen we dispose of the bottles that 80% of the end up in landfills or are burned. The rest of them are sent to India for recycling. The ones that are recycled though are were not all recycled. The parts that could not be recycled were put into people's backyards in India.

Now for the last assignment of the day. Like I said we had to tast water and score it. We tasted 3 different types of water. The categories for scoring were flavor, odor, and aftertaste. We had to score the water from 1 to 5 which 1 was the worst. After the whole survey was over our facilitator told us what each water was. I realized that I scored tap water as the highest. The other two were bottled water and the taste horrible especially the second one I taste. I gave it a one for each category.

Now that I know that tap is just filter bottled water I might just drink it. I realized that these companies are just trying to trick us into buying their products. If you would like to watch these videos here are the links below. Also if you have any comment please feel free to share. Have a great day.
http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-water/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QBZac3MSY