From the Surge to Scarce: Bottled Water

A hermetically sealed bottle of water does not guarantee its perseverance and existence on the planet; apparently, it acts otherwise. From the surge of trading bottled water, once started by Jackson spa back in 18th Century, to the 21st century's enslaved and regiment mindsets that water is sterilized when canned, the bottled water consumption has adversely increased despite the heralding cries, awareness crusades and the never-ending discussion on monitored parameters of water in our geography bouts.
We endorsed the use of bottled water to accomplish the great desideratum of potable water, but instead stifled the cornerstone laid out to sustain the natural resources taking a toll on the environment, and thus depleting the finite percentage of freshwater resources (2.5–2.75%) available underground. What merely started as a debonair praxis to fulfill the prerequisite of drinking water by refining the available means vis-a-vis technological formalization, turned into an oozing exhumation of groundwater and further questioned if bottled water is depleting the ecological balance more than the natural means of consumption ever did!
As the maxim goes by, everything is interconnected, so is the environment and its resources. Rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands, and groundwater all are connected and will eventually breathe its last if any of the former is extinct. If groundwater resources vanish, the chances of losing the river flow, that at times is the water migrating from the underground, snow/glaciers melting to conforming in at times of prolonged water supply shortages, etc. are gigantic. The mining water, deliberate or inadvertent, not only buckles the water availability for future generations under a stone but withal abnegates conceding the damage caused by PET plastic bottles used to conserve and distribute water, which most of the times end up into the landfills where they never biodegrade causing further harm to nature.

Alas! Humans don’t realize. Did we as commoners will ever transverse through the indignant contention existing between the technology and nature? Or are we insatiable enough to forsake the major possibility of wrecking the planet for our future generations? Why did we not realize that the bottled water consumption is harming the natural resources more than it secured the life of human species? Will the surge of bottling water lead us to a scarcity of natural resources?

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