Exploratory Essay

As I child, I can remember running into the house headed straight for the bathroom sink, tuning the handle and plunging my head as deep into the sink as I could. My mouth open as wide as I could get it trying to get as much water as I could. I’m not sure when, but some years later I can remember the same scenario happing but with a different out come. As I run in to the bathroom turned on the sink, I could hear my mother calling me. So I turned off the water and went to see what she wanted. She told me that she wanted to show me something, and all I could think about what rapping my lips around the bathroom sink and drinking until my belly was full, not until my thirst was quenched but until I got my full. So, I cleared my head and asked what to you want to show me. She told me to get a clear glass out of the cabinet and go to the bathroom and get some water, do not drink it she stated. So in my confusion, I staggered to the bathroom wondering what the old wise one could possible trying to show me. In the bathroom, I had visions of dunking my head into the sink and shaking it back and forth, as if I were a pig at play. I filled the glass with water and as I walked back to my mother, I liked at the glass and noticed something floating in the glass. I thought the glass must have been dirty, so I poured out the water and rinsed the glass and filled it again. Gazing into the glass, I could still see things floating around in the glass. My mother could see the confusion on my face and in a motherly voice said, “That is what I wanted to show you”, still confused I asked show me what? She went on to explain as well as she could that the water that I just loved to drink had germs in it. As she was explaining how this could happen she handed me a bottle of water. The look was the same, the taste was the same but there was nothing floating. That was my first experience with bottled water Vs tap water. Although bottled water presents the illusion of a high quality product, the quality of some leading bottled water companies has come into question because of testes conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council, controversies surrounding the Coke-Cola bottling company.
From that, point on I was a bottled waterman, refusing to drink anything but bottled water and when bottled water was not available, I cringed as I felt the water hit my lips. In the world of bottled water, we as consumers have a plethora of water to choose from, the difficult part is selecting which water to drink. There is spring water, purified water, mineral water, sparkling water, artesian water, well water, and my al time favorite municipal/tap water. I have tried all types of bottled water Dasani, Aquafina, Deer Park to name a few. The best water that I have ever tasted is Evian water; I think I am partial to Evian because I spent 4 wonderful months in France TDY for the Air Force. Evian was provided to us free of charge, so I drank until I could not drink any more. My experiences in France were I drank Evian every day has turned me into an Evian man. The only thing is in America Evian is very expensive. If given a choice I will always buy Evian. It was not until I started to become interested in the difference between spring water and purified water that I realized the aspects of bottled water. Spring water comes from the ground, purified water as been treated.