In the United States, plastic water bottles are bought more often than milk or soda. However, the casing nor the water inside is beneficial to our society. According to research online, not only is bottled water expensive and polluting our environment, there are also chemicals in bottled water that makes it not worth the switch. Naturalsociety.com suggests around 24,000 chemicals in our bottled water. These chemicals lower the pH in our bodies, causing side effects such as skin and eye irritation, irregular heartbeat, and other problems in the kidneys, heart, and digestive system in extreme conditions.
From this research, we, Lina Kim and Leena Elzeiny, found that we needed to spread awareness about the use of water bottles. The essential question to approach this is how we're going to spread awareness. We will do this by fundraising multiple times in order to gain enough profit so that we can buy a spot on a prominent website where we can place an advertisement that'll be made by ourselves. This leaves us with three main goals: fundraise, find places we can place our advertisement on, and create our advertisement.
Our inspiration for this project is 20% Time. This policy allows us to spend roughly 20% of our time doing a project relating to the subject, and in our case, this is every Monday in our biology class. We thought of this topic because one of us was really interested in saving the environment, and pollution is one of the leading causes for its destruction. The other one was interested in business; buying, selling, and financial stability in general. From there, we brainstormed to reach this idea, a great comprise between the two of our interests.
