After reading this you’ll think twice before drinking water when in another country.   Did you know?
 

Every 8 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease
50% of people in developing countries suffer from one or more water related disease
80% of these diseases in the developing countries are caused by contaminated water
50% of people on Earth lack […]

Bottled water and tap water where tested to see if one was healthier than the other.  The results came out: Bottled water and tap water are the same, and there were no differences according to the microbiologist that did the test.  Many scientists have run tests like this and all came out the same.  Bottled […]

1. Determine how much water you need. You’ve probably heard the “8 by 8″ rule, drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day but the amount of water a person needs varies depending on his or her weight and activity level. A better way to determine your specific recommended water intake is to divide your […]

For starters, 1.5 million barrels of oil in the US are used to make water bottles from polyethylene terephthalate each year. Not to mention that 86% of those bottles created are sent to landfills or incinerated serving no long term purpose and destroying our environment. Many times, bottled water is manufactured and shipped long distances, like the 1.4 […]

The bottled water companies are under fire by the same health conscious consumers who made it into a $15 billion industry. The consumer concern primarily deals with the environmental damage caused by the waste from over 38 million plastic bottles a year and the large amounts of energy and fuel costs that are required to bring the product to market. This […]

FDA’s rules exempt many forms of what most of us would consider bottled water from its definition of “bottled water,” and therefore, according to FDA, exempts them from all of FDA’s specific standards for bottled water testing and contamination. If the product is declared on the bottle ingredient label simply as “water,” or as “carbonated […]

Here is the main reason for the lack of effort by the FDA to regulate the bottled water industry. They have just one half of a person (Full Time Equivelent) per year dedicated to bottled water regulation. This is mostly because it is such a low priority.
The problems created by this lack of regulatory oversight are addressed through “Voluntary compliance” and […]

The question on everyone’s mind is tap water safe?  Well the answer is no.  Even though the water goes through “treatment,” you must think about the route the water goes through to come out of your faucet.  Through miles of pipes underneath the streets.  Do you think these pipes are totally clean?  The pipes are old and […]

Today is the second in my ramblings about the new “green” economy. No, I don’t mean money. Unless you have been in a coma or under a rock, I’m sure you have heard from many different sources from the New York Times to Oprah about “going green.” It’s sweeping the nation, and it is looking […]

According to a Scholastic News article found here, the Mayor of San Francisco has banned the use of government money to buy bottled water. This is the first of possibly many huge blows to the bottled water industry as a whole. It just takes a few to get the ball rolling, and others will step […]