Purity of Bottled Water Questioned
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Locally, bottled water is just expensive. By comparison, it is more expensive than gasoline. And depending on location, it is more expensive than milk, soda drinks and draft beer. The buyer assumes that, for the extra costs, the product is free of contaminants. It seems that recent findings place doubts on this common assumption:
“…In its test of 10 best-selling brands of bottled water, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found mixtures of 38 different pollutants including bacteria, fertilizer, and industrial chemicals in some of the tested brands at levels that were similar to tap water.
Several samples of Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Choice brand sold in California were found to exceed that state’s legal limits of contaminants for bottled water.
“The bottled water industry really presents this image of purity, but our investigation demonstrated that it is really hit or miss,” EWG senior scientist Olga Naidenko, PhD, tells WebMD. “We found a lot of variation among the same brands which suggests that at the moment consumers can not have confidence in their water.”"
link: Report: Some Bottled Water Not So Pure
Expect a vigorous response from the bottled water industry. Reports such as this are a direct threat to a billion dollar industry. The defense will be intense.
Catherine Forsythe