We may all know that bottled water is wasteful and everyone should stick to the tap, but now more people may get on board thanks for the EWG's study that showed some bottled water to have troubling levels of contamination.
oh MAN that is gross. i wonder how much of the contaminants that come from bottled water are a result of the water bottles sitting out in the sun and on store shelves for months at a time....
"Tests showed coliform bacteria, caffeine, the pain reliever acetaminophen, fertilizer, solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element strontium."
Yum....
I wonder how the pain reliever got in there. I know that there's an issue with people holding to the old beliefs that it's okay to throw perscription drugs down the toilet (but then our santitation processes don't really get that stuff out once it's dissolved so it ends up contaminating our water ways).
The NRDC did a study like this back in 1999 which found a fair amount of contamination and really spotty regulation.
Not too long ago I read that there's all kinds of prescription drugs in our water systems because people are taking so much that their bodies just don't absorb it all. So you need to treat the water well to filter all that stuff out. And since some bottled water is just re-filtered tap water (i.e. Aquafina and Dasani), if their filtering process isn't good enough, that would be why all that stuff was found in the bottled water.
I never buy bottled water unless I am in a situation where there is no potable water around. If I can anticipate a situation like that I bring my water bottle. I just never liked producing more garbage than it is absolutely necessary.
But, here are five reasons why not to drink bottled water:
http://lighterfootstep.com/2008/05/five-reasons-not-to-drink-bottled-water/
Edited by eris - Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:33:23 GMT
