I stumbled across this short video called The Facts about Bottled Water by Natasha Murray and it immediately got me thinking.  Why do so many people drink bottled water? Is it because they are ignorant of the environmental effects? Is it because they actually like the taste better?

After thinking about this for a few days, I realized it’s mostly because of one reason: people are lazy! People know that a re-usable bottle is better than a plastic one.  Even if you can recycle it, it is still plastic!  People may say they like the taste better, but how much can someone tell the difference between bottled water and tap water?

I did an experiment with a team in my last marketing class and we did a blind taste test with water.  Our results? No one could pick out which glass was the tap water! It just goes to show that people are stuck in their usual opinions and are too stubborn to change.

So this brings me to my final conclusion that people are lazy.  People know the environmental side effects and apparently they can’t tell the difference between bottled and tap water when tested so why are they still drinking bottled water?

Because people are too lazy to change their behaviours!  They don’t want to have to remember a re-usable water bottle, they don’t want to go find a water fountain, and they think they don’t want to drink water that tastes bad.  But the funny thing is people will wait in line and pay for water that tastes the same as free water and that contributes to ruining our environment!

So in the end yes people are lazy but its more the fact that people don’t want to change their behaviours.  Whether this is because it’s too difficult or too foreign, I don’t know.  But I do know that we all need to start making a better effort to change our behaviours.  Because if not the earth as we know it won’t be here for us too much longer.