Water Filled Day

Today is what I would call a water filled day. We had so many water based things to do in class, it was overwhelming. Of course it was an assignment so I had to go along with it.

The first part of class consisted of us taking a bottled water survey. The questions were a breeze. The next part of class consisted of us taking a water tasting test. We were to comment on a scale from 1 to 5 on how good or bad the water tasted under three columns which were flavor,odor, and aftertaste.
The first sample of water was nasty but bearable. It had no odor and the aftertaste was weird. The next sample was the most wretched thing I have ever tasted. The odor was unbearable and the taste made me want to vomit, but I drank it all anyway. The final sample smelled like chlorinated water but it tasted so refreshingly good.

After everyone finished putting down their opinions, our facilitator told us what each brand of water the samples were. The first sample was Purified Water from Sam's. The second sample was Deer Park and the final sample was tap water.

Following the activity, we watched two videos based on water bottles. The first video was about how water bottles are made and how companies claim that tap water is bad when reality it is good for not only you but the environment. I learned that even though they claim it is terrible, they still use it in their best selling water bottles. Coca Cola's Dasani and Aquafina both are made with tap water. I also learned that a majority of our water bottles are sent into landfills to be left there or to be burned up. The rest of the bottles are recycled which is not as much as you think it is. My thoughts on the video are that people, including me, need to give tap water a chance. It is not so bad as companies putti out to be.

The second video was about people saying that bottled water was better and healthier than tap water. In the video scientists were checking to see if there was any difference among the two and they confirmed that it was just water and there is nothing different about them. People in the video did a water tasting test just like we did and most of them little did they know checked off tap water as the best tasting one. Evian was voted as the worst tasting one. My thoughts on this video are that it doesn't really matter if you drink bottled water or tap water but at the end of the day it is still water and it is still essential to Earth's survival.