“The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and a willingness to help others.” -Albert Schweitzer.Currently in the United States environmental activists are trying to ban bottled water. Their reasons are very understandable. Water bottles spend years in landfills after being used, and this is bad for the environment, but people depend on the production of bottled water. Through statistics and people's opinions, this article will show you the importance of water bottles and how people around the world are so dependent on bottled water, even if this does not concern you or me. For some people in third world countries bottled water is a life or death necessity and they couldn't survive without it. Scholastic's article, Is Bottled Water Really Better? brings out the startling statistic that around the world, 780 million people do not have access to drinking water, and a portion of these people depend on bottled water to survive. If we banned bottled water, that portion of 780 million people would have to resort to their own resources, which could make them seriously ill or even die. Every year, 1.4 million children die due to a lack of clean drinking water; and 3.6 million per year from water-related illnesses, 84% children, 98% live in developing countries, says digitalcommons.liberty.edu. Children are dying because they don't have access to clean water, children who could grow up and do something great in this world. However they don't have the chance to do so because they end up dying. We lose so many people and if we provided them with bottled water we could reduce that. Some places in the world depend on bottled water, so this doesn't happen to their children; if ...... half of the paper ....... Works Cited "Is bottled water a waste of money and resources considering that most communities in the United States have safe tap water?" Debate.org. NP, 2013. Web. November-December 2013."Is bottled water a waste of money and resources considering that most communities in the United States have safe tap water?" The main website for online debate. Np, nd Web. Nov. 29, 2013. Klessig, Lance. “Water is Life: The Bottled Water Industry.” Water is life - Industry.Np, nd Web of bottled water. December 07, 2013.Starkey, Monterey. "The water crisis in third world countries". Thesis. Liberty University, 2012. Digital Commons at Liberty University. Freedom University. Network. November-December 2013. Tarshis, Lauren. “Is bottled water really better?” Scholastic Scope Magazine April 8, 2013: 2021. Print."The Unbottled Truth About Bottled Water Jobs." General of food water supervision. NP, 25 June 2008. Network. 29 November. 2013.