North Carolina Central University Bottled Water Lab Report

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LA5 Learning Activity, “Bottled Water: WHY?”

Thirty years ago, buying and selling water in bottles for individual consumption was unheard of. Fast forward to today, and we see that the sale of bottled water is a multi billion dollar industry. Address the scenarios of bottled water and upload to the link for credit for this Learning Activity.

Assignment: Address the following and submit to the submission link:

1. Watch the short (5 minute) parody from the comedy team “Smosh” called “Amazing New Drink!” about buying and drinking bottled water (2011). CAUTION: The clip is rated PG-13. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmtlrioy58U
   1. What are some of the very silly points that the video makes as to why they believe people buy water in bottles, despite the high price?
   2. Why do YOU think people still buy water in bottles, instead of the tap or out of water fountains, despite the high price? Note: a 16 ounce bottle of water costs roughly $2.00 in a convenience store; that same amount from your tap costs $0.0005.
   3. Considering Americans use enough plastic drink bottles every day to fill the Empire State Building–and only 1/5 are recycled–do you think that the selling of bottled water should be banned on campus, as it has on some other college campuses?
2. A Nestle water bottling plant pumps 250 – 400 gallons PER MINUTE from Osceola Township in Michigan, only paying $200 a year for the rights to do so, to then sell this water for billions in profits. Citizens claim it hurts their local ecosystems and puts their future (in regards to water) in jeopardy. Nestle spends $11 million dollars in lobbyists for Congress to sway votes to favor their business practices. When there are billions of profits to be made with big corporations selling bottled water, what are the incentives to keep water from getting polluted in the first place? Should safe clean drinking water be a government sponsored basic human right or be subject to privatization as a corporation, available only to people who can afford it?
3. The Bush Family, having made millions of dollars for generations as oil barons, recently purchased 300,000 acres in Paraguay. There is no oil there, but it does lie over one of the world’s largest aquifers–evidence that fresh water (“blue gold”), not oil, may be the investment of the future. If you were given $500 to invest in stocks regarding oil or water, which would you choose, and why?