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In addition, plastic bottles make serious environmental pollution. Most plastics are transported overseas to be recycled in order to get rid of them due to their environmental effect. Unfortunately, some end up being pollutants to our environment (Baumgartner 1). They become pollutants because they do not decompose easily when in the ground. They make soil infertile due to the impairment that they offer to penetration of water into the soil. On the other hand, when these plastics are burned in the environment, they cause air pollution. If people burn plastic bottles, it will cause air pollution. In city Los Angeles, about 10 tonnes of plastic fragments including bottles of water, straw and plastic bags are brought into the Pacific Ocean daily (Baumgartner 1).

As a final point, banning bottled water is saving human rights. Water is one of the most important natural resources for human. Similar with air, people can’t live without water. The situation is that people do not need to pay for breathing air, but they need to pay for drinking water. “ The UN Human Rights Council has passed resolutions outlining governments’ obligations concerning the right to water and sanitation” (Canadians 3). Water is from natural sources, so it is strange that people need to pay for water, which should be owned by everybody. Having water is a human right.

Nonetheless, some people think bottled water is their personal choice and it is convenient. People have their right to choose what they want to buy and they choose bottled water. In addition, people can easily buy bottled water and bring it with them wherever they go. It makes people see that it is much convenience than tap water. In spite of these two reasons, bottled water’s disadvantages far outweigh its advantages. There is no doubt that plastic bottles use a lot of oil and pollute environment. “ Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding twenty-nine billion water bottles a year to the problem. It makes all bottle manufacturers use seventeen million barrels of crude oil in making the water bottles, which is wasteful” (Fox 2). This statistic explains that we need to ban bottled water to save and protect our environment.

All in all, some people believe that bottled water is their personal choice and it brings to them convenience. In fact, it also brings serious pollution. What’s more, bottled water is not economic choice because tap water is much cheaper and even cleaner than bottled water. On the other hand, water is our basic right; therefore, banning bottled water we can save money, protect surrounding environment and human rights.