Ethical Use Of Bottled Water

Sanitation, the quality of water waste treatment, is directly tied to water health for a community. Water supply and wastewater treatment are tied together in healthy cities. When private companies are in charge of keeping fresh and healthy water delivered to the community, they must partner with either public, or private businesses, to ensure not only is there clean water available, but that all wastewater is kept out of the freshwater supply by having good services for the collection and treatment of waste of water and sewage. The Flint Michigan crisis is an example of when water was not filtered correctly that poor quality water was introduced into the community, resulting in a need for water treatment for the lead before the water was …show more content…
Many companies have been starting campaigns of misinformation in wealthy countries, by pushing the idea that tap water is unsafe and contaminated, and then suggesting the consumer should buy their safer, and filtered, bottled water. Tap water which sells for pennies on the gallon is being bad-mouthed, so that people will purchase bottled water for the same price as bottled soft drinks or more. Bottle selling businesses, like Coke and Pepsi, simply bottle tap water from communities and resell the bottled water for profit. Nestle has been accused in court of exceeding its allotment of water from the San Bernardino area. They were allowed to pump 8 million gallons, but instead pumped 62 million gallons each year on average, thus stealing water from rural areas for more profit (Chappell, 2017, para. 2). The more bottles that are purchased, the more profit they earn and the more waste into our environment, and the faster the depletion of our groundwater supplies, as millions of bottles a year are packaged. Bottles that fill up landfills and oceans. Litter and waste that is being ignored so companies can have more profit. In a neoliberal economic environment where anything goes there is nothing to stop companies from harming people, and the environment, unless civic leaders step up to place regulation on the unhampered pursuit of wealth. …show more content…
Many communities have been working together to prove a point that water privatization isn’t for everyone. For example, the farmers and Native Americans of Southern Oregon and Northern California who have been fighting against each other over water availability have made an alliance against an electric multinational company, PacifiCorp, whose dams are out-of-date and are hurting the economy and natural water system of that area. Communities and tribes near Mount Shasta are teaming together to fight against Nestle who wants to expand their spring water bottling facility to generate larger profits possibly at the expense of the local agricultural water need. As communities have shown their willingness to take on companies that have been exploiting public water resources. Multiple high end restaurants in California like Chez Panisse, Incanto, and Poggio, as well as restaurants in New York City, like Del Posto, have joined in with San Francisco in canceling their bottle contracts and instead installing a water machine that filters, carbonates, and dispenses tap

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