Bottled Water
Oct. 15th, 2008 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenNever mind the BPA in the bottles themselves, how about what's in the water itself?
Not a complete study, but interesting to see what's come up so far. Of particular interest to folks who get bottled water from Walmart (Sam's Choice) and the Acadia brand, which is sold in the mid-Atlantic states.
OTOH, while tap is as good or better than bottled water in some places, that isn't true everywhere. There's folks in the Yakima Valley in Washington state who can't drink the water from their wells because of high concentrations of nitrates from the surrounding dairy farms and orchards. Although I wonder if a really good filtration system would help in the short-term, like a Big Berky system. Deeper wells might help, but some of these folks can afford that even less than buying bottled water. Long-term, the state needs to do something about all the nitrates getting into the water.
I also learned from the above article that some chlorine by-products (possibly from cleaning agents?) are linked to birth defects.
Bottom line, get your water tested or find out from your town what results they've had for water-testing (in Holyoke our department sent out an annual report). If the water in the bottles is no better than your tap water, might as well save the money on buying the bottles.
Not a complete study, but interesting to see what's come up so far. Of particular interest to folks who get bottled water from Walmart (Sam's Choice) and the Acadia brand, which is sold in the mid-Atlantic states.
OTOH, while tap is as good or better than bottled water in some places, that isn't true everywhere. There's folks in the Yakima Valley in Washington state who can't drink the water from their wells because of high concentrations of nitrates from the surrounding dairy farms and orchards. Although I wonder if a really good filtration system would help in the short-term, like a Big Berky system. Deeper wells might help, but some of these folks can afford that even less than buying bottled water. Long-term, the state needs to do something about all the nitrates getting into the water.
I also learned from the above article that some chlorine by-products (possibly from cleaning agents?) are linked to birth defects.
Bottom line, get your water tested or find out from your town what results they've had for water-testing (in Holyoke our department sent out an annual report). If the water in the bottles is no better than your tap water, might as well save the money on buying the bottles.
