Bottled Water Guide

Municipal SourcesPublicly treated or “municipal” sources are used by 25% of the bottling companies in the US.  Sometimes the companies take additional steps, to insure quality or taste, but in other cases, no other steps are taken.A municipal source may be surface or groundwater.  In some areas, it’s a river.  In others, there are deep-water [...]

Bottled water, a multi-billion dollar industry, is growing rapidly. Today more people, approximately 68 percent of consumers, are drinking bottled water. Because of this, bottled water sales are increasing to the tune of nearly 10 percent per year. Americans consumed 8.25 billion gallons in 2006. On average, consumption increased by over 2 gallons per capita [...]

Fresh water reserves are very limited and the combination of overpopulation and rising sea levels increase the salinity of groundwater.Compounding the supply problem, fresh water reserves are continually being degraded by air pollution, agricultural run-off and contamination fromwastewater. Sadly, our fresh water reserves are not expandable and must be shared among an ever growing global [...]

Industry, agriculture and the general public use over 70,000 different chemicals. Many of which can be found in our environment today, polluting the air we breathe, the soil in which we produce our crops, our lakes, rivers and streams. Many of these toxic contaminants are finding their way to our drinking water sources.Amazing as it [...]

Pure drinking water is the basic element in any health oriented way of life. Although there is a great deal of water in the world less than 3% of the world’s “fresh” water is fit for human consumption and most of the so called drinkable water is not pure.For the consumer, there are really only [...]