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In my opinion, tap water is safer than bottled water. A non profit public health advocacy group based in Washington D.C., the environmental working group tested 10 brands of bottled water and found 38 pollutants in them. These included disinfection byproducts, arsenic, fertilizer residue, plasticizers and pharmaceuticals. Low levels of these may be found in tap water. But the scenarios are completely different because with tap water they have to tell you what in it and with bottled water they do not.("New Study Finds Fault With Some Bottled Waters; Tap Water a Better Bet.")

You should consume filtered tap water instead of bottled water. You are getting the same thing either way, water is water. Except that with tap water you know exactly what you are getting and with a bottle it is questionable.("New Study Finds Fault With Some Bottled Waters; Tap Water a Better Bet.") Bottled water also costs fifteen times more and the bottles are just piling up in land fills. In addition to that, bottled water consumes 17 million barrels of oil every year in order to produce the bottles. If we just eliminated bottled water then we wouldn't be so oil hungry. It takes three gallons of water to produce one gallon of bottled water.("What Is The Real Cost Of Bottled Water?" ) Tap water costs less than one cent per gallon. Gasoline costs two cents an ounce. Bottled water is five cents an ounce.(BaskindMon ) Somehow that just seems so wrong to me.

Works Cited
BaskindMon, By Chris. "5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water | MNN - Mother Nature Network." Environmental News and Information | MNN - Mother Nature Network. Web. 22 Sept. 2010. .

"New Study Finds Fault With Some Bottled Waters; Tap Water a Better Bet." Environmental Nutrition 32.1 (2009): 3. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 22 Sept. 2010.

"What Is The Real Cost Of Bottled Water?" Popular | Environmental Graffiti. Web. 22 Sept. 2010. .