Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype?

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Bottled Water Report

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http://www.mercola.com/1999/archive/bottled_water.htm

 

Americans increasingly are turning to bottled water,

making it a $4 billion-a-year business in the United

States. Millions of us are willing to pay 240 to over

10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than we

do for tap water -- though we probably rarely think of

it that way.

 

However, some bottled water contains bacterial

contaminants, and several brands of bottled water

contain synthetic organic chemicals (such as

industrial solvents, chemicals from plastic, or

trihalomethanes -- the by-products of the chemical

reaction between chlorine and organic matter in water)

or inorganic contaminants (such as arsenic, a known

carcinogen) in at least some bottles (see Chapter 3

and our accompanying Technical Report).

 

Moreover, as Chapter 4 documents, bottled water

regulations have gaping holes, and both state and

federal bottled water regulatory programs are severely

underfunded.

 

In Chapter 5 we present evidence that there is

substantially misleading marketing of some bottled

water, and in Chapter 6 we argue that consumers should

be informed about the contaminants found in the water

they purchase. NRDC's major findings and

recommendations are summarized below.

 

 

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Dr. Mercola's Comment

 

If you consume bottled water regularly you might be

interested in viewing the entire report which is

somewhere around 100 pages long. The beauty of the NET

is that the report is absolutely free and delivery is

instant!

 

Click Here for Report:

http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp

 

 

 

 

 

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