WWF: Bottled Water No Better Than Tap Water

Xinhua News Agency;  May 3, 2001 ;     439 words ......people to drink tap water, which is often as good as bottled water, for the benefit...applied to the bottled water industry...attitudes towards tap water are being shaped...nutritional value, bottled water is no better than tap water. It may ...

Getting off the bottle; Will consumers kick the habit of buying bottled...

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...there 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 ...

COLUMN: Bottled water often tap water in disguise

University Wire;  April 9, 2007 ;     547 words ......right: A whole lot of bottled water is just glorified tap water. And a lot of that...about 25 percent of bottled water is tap water, which may be filtered...Half picked the tap water, a quarter picked bottled water and the rest couldn...

Is bottled water any purer than tap water? Probably not

CCPA Monitor;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......difference between bottled water and tap water? The Big-4 bottled water companies imply...guarantee that bottled water is safer than tap water; in fact, a number...is superior to tap water? The International Bottled Water ...

Bottled or tap water? Half of us can't tell the difference anyway

The Scotsman;  July 24, 2008 ;     452 words ......flavour of tap water. But there...the cost of bottled water is turning...litres of bottled water in 2006. The...litre, while tap water costs an average...litres of bottled water in lieu of perfectly safe tap water. The attack...

Harmful Chemicals Found in Bottled Water; Several Major Brands No...

AScribe Medicine News Service;  October 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......processed, pricey tap water. For years the bottled water industry has...words, some bottled water was chemically...indistinguishable from tap water. The only striking...gallon of public tap water. Unlike public...utilities, bottled water ...

Michelin-starred chefs join call for tap water at tables ; (1) Support for...

Evening Standard - London;  February 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ......nothing wrong with tap water at all, he said...precious about bottled water. People pay a silly...offer our customers tap water as an alternative to alcohol or bottled water. Health food chain...most people drink bottled water and its almost...rude to ask ...

Go ahead, drink it: City's tap water's fine

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......He noted that bottled water need not identify...percent of the bottled water manufacturers use tap water," he said. It...International Bottled Water Association, noted...with ordinary tap water, "typically it...safer than most tap water." ...

Perception of tap water changing

University Wire;  July 28, 2006 ;     615 words ......the new trend of bottled water, for some, the perception of tap water has changed. Many...each state have bottled water safety programs. However, for tap water, Utah's Division...be stricter on tap water, bottled water sales in the United...

Michelin-starred chefs join call for tap water at tables ; Support for...

Evening Standard - London;  February 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ......nothing wrong with tap water at all," he said...precious about bottled water. People pay a silly...offer our customers tap water as an alternative to alcohol or bottled water." Health food chain...most people drink bottled water and its almost...rude to ...

Help environment by choosing tapped water, not bottled ; When did you last...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  May 5, 2008 ;     577 words ......and a glass of tap water is the cheapest...campaigning against bottled water. And it is not...billion litres of bottled water sold in the US...million tonnes of bottled water are transferred...Wales to serve tap water as a matter of...of asking for ...

DROWNING IN PLASTIC: Bottled water leaves a lot of trash, but many prefer...

Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX);  September 6, 2007 ;     667 words ......000 times more per gallon on bottled water than tap water, according to the Natural Resources...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 ...

Del Boy jibe for Coke's 'purified tap water'.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 2, 2004 ;     477 words ......selling purified tap water in a bottle. The...its new Dasani bottled water, which went on...was 'as pure as bottled water gets'. The National...when they sold tap water from what they...would never say tap water isn't drinkable...billion litres of ...

So what's wrong with tap water anyway? THE QUESTION

The Independent on Sunday;  July 23, 2006 ;     199 words ......bottled and tap water, according to...for tap than bottled water. For instance...their labelling. TAP WATER COSTS a tiny fraction of bottled water, typicaly being...associated with the bottled water industry. TAP WATER DOES not ...

Taste test of tap water held during Water Awareness Week

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  March 22, 2007 ;     516 words ......myth that bottled water or filtered...better than tap water, the institute...Protective Agency. Tap water is controlled...but your bottled water, spring water...contained the tap water. "I either drink Arrowhead bottled water or at home...