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 [...]

Generally speaking, the Federal Government does not purchase pure bottled drinking water for Federal employees unless it can be proved that agency drinking water is unsuitable for drinking.Proof of water quality however, is a long and time consuming process and many agency employees are forced to drink low quality, bad tasting tap or well water [...]

Using the latest advances in water purification science, City Water International Inc. lets you take your existing municipal water system and removes all the chlorine taste, odor, chemicals, and metals that drove you to the bottle in the first place.Their bottle less water cooler and filtration system is revolutionary in nature. It is clean, cost [...]

Did you know Americans consumed more than 7.5 billion gallons of bottled water in 2005? That’s more than 26 gallons per person.Why have so many thirsty people turned off the tap and chosen to drink bottled water?Some prefer the taste, but others give up the convenience of tap water because they are convinced bottle water [...]

Water, water everywhere and we are duped into buying it bottled.Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief–often mistaken, as it happens–that this is better for us than what flows from our taps, according to environmental think tank the Earth Policy Institute (EPI).For a fraction of that sum, everyone [...]

E- Commerce is coming of age with millions of new customers from internet sales for a wide variety of products. Advances in web site design, payment mechanisms and delivery systems have met the increased demand for online ordering.With the advent of on-line ordering firms like Amazon and E-Bay, what started out as a small business [...]