Can I sell you a bottle of tap water?
Or how about a bottle of water I got somewhere in the United States (the location is a secret), but failed to treat according to any standards you know of?
It’s only a $1.25 a bottle.
Not buying it? The thing is, we’re all buying it.
In 2009, Americans drank an average of 27.6 gallons of bottled water per person. That’s 11.4 gallons more per person than we drank 10 years ago, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation. Sales of bottled water in 2009 were $10.6 billion.
If you’re buying bottled water, what you are often getting is nothing more than plain tap water. In many cases, you’re getting water from an unknown source that is not subject to the strict Environmental Protection Agency standards established in the Safe Drinking Act.
In other words: your city tap water is guaranteed to be safer than bottled water.
According to two reports that resulted in a Congressional hearing in 2009, bottled water is actually not as safe as city tap water. In fact, the 2008 Environmental Working Group study of 10 bottled water brands found they contained 38 chemical pollutants, including bacteria and known carcinogens that exceeded safety standards in the states where they were for sale.
By Jeff Barnet/Healthy U
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