Learning activity 3

Evidence: The story of bottled water

1. What are the problems derived from drinking bottled water? Mention two
problems at least.

When the production and extraction of oil is used to make the water bottles and
when the waste of plastic bottles appears on the streets.

2. What is the difference between bottled water and drinking water?

That the bottled water is processed and contaminated by companies that

manufacture the bottles, instead the tap water is simply transferred to the people
without being processed.

3. Describe the process involved in manufacturing a plastic bottle.

When companies obtain raw materials from nature to make bottles, they fill bottles
with processed water, transport bottles to people, pick up empty bottles, and if
they do not vote for incinerators, they use them to rebuild new bottles.

4. What happens with the plastic bottles after we throw them away?

If they do not end up dumping in landfills for many years, they end up in
incinerators where toxic contaminants are expelled.

5. What solutions can be implemented to solve this problem?

If we promote political campaigns that reduce the sale of water bottles and if we
give schools, houses and families the consequences of buying bottled water,
people will drink tap water without any worries and will not have any kind of
disease.

6. Is this problem common in your community? What does the community do

to deal with it?

If it is very common, people buy bottled water believing that it comes from clean
areas but they are wrong, if we do not hold meetings and talks with the
community about each family having in their house a special trash can only for
plastic bottles. We will have many environmental problems in the future.
 7. Will you drink bottled water again? Why, why not?

Not because the difference between the taste of bottled water and tap water is
not much and because when you buy those bottled waters, we are only causing
companies to make more and more unnecessary plastic bottles.

8. What will you do in the future to reduce the number of plastic bottles used in
the world?

If my work area and my family support me, I will make campaigns for rules,
penalties or fines for people who do not recycle the plastic bottles they in their
stores.