Article: COLUMN: Bottled water often tap water in disguise

Article: Dear EarthTalk: bottled water companies would have ...
EarthTalk: Questions & Answers About Our Environment. A Weekly Column;  July 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... EarthTalk: Bottled water companies would ... believe that tap water is unsafe to ... apply to city tap water." Bottled water is required ... and relying on bottled water instead, we ... make sure our tap water is clean and ...

Article: Bottled water or tap water?(Ask ...
Natural Life;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... health and environment perspectives--tap water or bottled water? A: In a word: tap water. First the health perspective. A ... conclude that there is no assurance that bottled water is any safer than tap water." In fact, a third of the tested ...

Article: Getting off the bottle; Will consumers kick the habit of buying ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  July 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... battle to win people over to tap water from bottled water. He hopes that people in the ... is little to choose between bottled water and tap water. ``I'm not keen on buying bottled water and tap water is no worse to drink than bottled ...

Article: Bottled Water Claims By Coke, Pepsi, Nestle Put to ...
PR Newswire;  March 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... half of the $55 billion bottled water market, and Coke and Pepsi both use tap water as their source. "Many ... healthy and superior to tap water, but bottled water is actually less regulated than tap water." In 2004, half a ...

Article: DROWNING IN PLASTIC: Bottled water leaves a lot of ...
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX);  September 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 000 times more per gallon on bottled water than tap water, according to the Natural ... more drinking requirements on tap water than bottled water," Garza said. "A lot of bottled water is taken from tap water." The Food and Drug ...

Article: Dasani was just 'ahead of time': Coca-Cola's bottled ...
Grocer;  March 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... water in comparison with tap water." Sainsbury's non ... profound effect on the UK bottled water industry It provoked ... decide to purchase a bottled water, they pay attention ... The concept of purified tap water was wrong because consumers ...

Article: Troubled waters: The popularity of bottled water ...
Employee Benefit News;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... benefits flowing from fluoridated tap water. Many bottled water products do not contain the fluoride that many sources of tap water have added to retard cavities ... correlation between drinking bottled water and tooth decay, public concern ...