Bottled Water That Is!
Just browse to your local water utility’s website. You’ll find the source of the water and any chemical pollutants that remain after treatment.
It’s the law.
Many utilities also volunteer their treatment methods. Even if they're too small to have a website, they mail out periodic water quality reports.
What's that? You have a well? Then you already know the source, and you can have your water professionally tested for under 20.00 USD in most areas.
When you buy bottled water the only thing you can be sure of is paying a premium price of up to 1900 times more!! You therefore should expect more, but do you actually get more?
Actually, with only a few rare exceptions, you get less.
All too often, you get more. More of what you don't want! Unless you actually want more hyped advertising come-ons like “crisp,” pristine” or “essential.” Even worse, too often you get more Carcinogens, Chemicals, and Filth!
Shouldn't pure drinking water be only about the facts?
An 18-month Environmental Working Group investigation of bottled water labels and websites has found that:
- Only 2 bottled waters disclose water sources and treatment methods on their labels and offer a recent water quality test report on their websites. These best performers are:
- Ozarka Drinking Water
- Penta Ultra-Purified Water
- Just 18% of bottled waters disclose quality reports with contaminant testing results. Among them, all 8 Nestlé domestic brands surveyed:
- Poland Spring
- Nestlé Pure Life
- Deer Park
- Ice Mountain
- None of the top 10 U.S. domestic bottled water brands label specific water sources and treatment methods for all their products.
The EWG recommends
- Filtered tap water! It saves money, it's purer than tap water, and it helps solve the global glut of plastic bottles.
- Stronger federal standards for bottled water to enforce the consumer's right to know all about bottled water — where it comes from, what’s been done to it, if anything, and what trace pollutants lurk inside.
Until the federal Food and Drug Administration cracks down on water bottlers, use EWG’s What’s in My Bottled Water guide to find brands with high scores for disclosing full water source, treatment and quality and that use advanced treatment methods to remove a broad range of pollutants.
The BEST is...