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Short Stories for Teachers

Tap Water Versus Bottled Water
By:Sharon Cacho

So many people these days are screaming "No bottled water...it's just glorified tap water!" I don't necessarily believe that to be true. Like anything that you purchase (especially if it's something entering your body), you need to do your own research, figure out for yourself which bottled water will best fit your family's needs. And today the needs are basic: get healthy, stay healthy.

I've decided to do a bit of research on tap water. My daughter recently made a trip to another country. "Be Warned! Don't drink the water!" Sadly, she wasn't even visiting Mexico, but was abroad in Europe! We searched high and low for "filtered drinking bottles" that you could fill at any drinking fountain, and supposedly (for $80 per bottle) it would filter out all of the bacteria. Not really a direction I wanted to go. We were able to find a bottle of pills that you could drop one tablet into each quart of water you were planning on consuming. There, we liked that idea! It was wonderful...no montezuma's revenge.

But that leaves me with the question...how bad IS our water? Upon doing a little research, I found that our "drinking water" consists of: micro-organisms, disinfectants, disinfection by-products, inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals (must mean there was at one time pure water in there!), and radionuclides. Wow. I wonder, how did the Ancient Civilizations ever survive without all of that help??

What are tap water drinkers (and yes, SOME bottled water drinkers consuming? What does all of those fancy words mean? Micro-organisms. That's easy-any one with a high school diploma can define that one.

What about "disinfection-by products". That one peaked my interest. In this category, you will find, chloramines (causes eye/nose irritation; stomach discomfort, anemia), chlorine and chlorine dioxide. (causes anemia and in infants & young children it causes nervous system problems.) Yeah, like I want all of that in my kids bodies! They're nervous enough!

Well, I've done enough research to know that I will gladly, willingly and whole heatedly stick to drinking my water...from water bottles. Some companies truly have taken the time to take out all of those enticing, wonderfully harmful products.

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