Essay - Bottled Water America is the Hub of Consumerism. it is...

Bottled water

America is the hub of consumer*****m. It is the country that supports free enterprise and capitalism. While the proponents of this economic system might give us thousands ***** reasons why capitalism is good, they can never convince you that the same system ***** not robbing our people of their basic rights. On the surface, everything ***** appear fine. But it is only when we carefully study the entire ***** and how ***** affects us that ***** realize that consumerism is making ***** lives difficult ***** stealing our many ***** rights.

In every country, it ***** the responsibility of ***** state to provide its people with clean water and fresh air free of cost. But it is ***** in the United States that providing ***** water has become the responsibility ***** large **********. These firms are making tap water appear less clean by bragging about the purity of bottled *****. However what we fail to realize is that th***** is a deep propag*****a to force the government to privatize water supply. In a country th*****t calls itself champion of civil rights, we are being *****d to pay for clean water which many believe is not so ***** either.

***** are some important issues connected with bottled water which are highlighted ***** the author in his article "Pandora's Bottle" and also by ***** other reports on the subject. For one, bottled water is ***** as clean as it is advertised to be. Secondly, t***** is seen as j*****t a campaign to ***** water ***** in the country. And finally, due to consumerism, we ***** *****ing robbed ***** our very basic *****.

***** ***** of "P*****ora's Bottle" claims that American believe ***** "bottle is a healthy choice, even though ***** Environmental Protection Agency does a better job of monitoring what comes from home taps than the Food and Drug Administration does tracking water sold at the grocery store." This means th***** while many ***** *****at *****d ***** is the *****er and safer choice, it is not as healthy for ***** environment ***** advert*****ers would have us believe. This claim is further supported ***** independent reports as the one by Arnold ***** Larsen (2006). The report identifies ***** reasons why bottled water is seriously damaging the ***** saying: "The most commonly used plastic for making ***** bottles is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which ***** derived from crude oil...After the water has been consumed, ***** plastic bottle must be disposed of. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86 percent of ***** water bottles ***** in ***** United States become garbage or litter."

Another important point raised by some *****s is that tap water ***** just as clean ***** bottled water but we let advertisers to make us ***** otherwise. ***** to a blind test results, ***** ***** was found to be as natural and fresh ***** any bottled water but it ***** when labeled *****re placed that people preferred ***** over plain tap water. The report concluded that: "...if ***** buy bottled ***** because