Bottled Water often much worse than Tapwater !

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Fri, 2010-01-01 05:21

lonewolfbunn lonewolfbunn's picture

Most people will be pissed because the have spent thousands per year

buying something worse than the stuff that currently comes out of their taps
for much less mulla -
I and many others are pissed because this toxic liquid has been used to dilute baby bottles
by well-intending parents who've been paying more tfor it than they can afford for untold years.
Governments keep collecting money looking for a cure for cancer... MAYBE THEY SHOULD
STOP ALLOWING PEOPLE TO MAKE MONEY FROM CAUSING IT!!!
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http://www.ewg.org/node/27011
"Bottled Water Quality Investigation: 10 Major Brands, 38 Pollutants: Walmart and Giant Water Exceeds Safety Limits

The Environmental Working Group's bottled water testing turned up a surprise finding:
bottled waters from Walmart (the Sam's Choice brand) and Giant Foods (Acadia brand) showed
high levels of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) known as trihalomethanes,
chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects.
These chemicals are common pollutants in municipal tap water.

...FDA-sanctioned presence of known carcinogens in bottled water highlights the woeful insufficiency
of federal regulations over bottled water production.
As a result of the FDA's hands-off approach to bottled water standards,
quality among brands and even among different bottles within a single brand
varies tremendously.
As uncovered by EWG, while some bottled waters appear to be purified or treated more than tap water,
others contain excessive levels of chemical pollutants."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gfQy7bJ_k&feature=player_embedded

This is a 60 second video which gives some uncommonly known info such as...

"Bottle water rules allow for contaminants like Ecoli or Fecal Coliform.
Which in laymans terms means it could have POOP in it!!!"

Fri, 2010-01-01 11:24

G. Muffin

This isn't really news, Lonewolf.

Fri, 2010-01-01 12:00

remind

Commercial food production rules allow for poop in the food too...it just has to be below a specific allowable amount.

But it is interesting the complicity all these health orgs and agencies have with corporate poisoning of people.

Fri, 2010-01-01 20:54

lonewolfbunn lonewolfbunn's picture

G. Pie wrote:

This isn't really news, Lonewolf.

True Dat but I did a search to see if this topic had been posted anywhere here and nothing came up.

I know the average person on the street has no idea about this but most Rabblers are not your average ignoramous out there which is why I like this forum so much.

Fri, 2010-01-01 22:47

Boom Boom

Took me two minutes to find these:

Rabble News: Celebrating the beginning of the end of bottled water in Canada

Babble:

Water fountains dying out on Canadian campuses

Thinking outside the bottle (water)

World Water Day, March 22 excerpt from the OP:

Water for profit takes a number of other forms. The bottled-water industry is one of the fastest-growing and least regulated industries in the world, expanding at an annual rate of 20 percent. Last year close to 90 billion liters of bottled water were sold around the world--most of it in nonreusable plastic containers, bringing in profits of $22 billion to this highly polluting industry. Bottled-water companies like Nestlй, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are engaged in a constant search for new water supplies to feed the insatiable appetite of this business. In rural communities all over the world, corporate interests are buying up farmlands, indigenous lands, wilderness tracts and whole water systems, then moving on when sources are depleted. Fierce disputes are being waged in many places over these "water takings," especially in the Third World. As one company explains, water is now "a rationed necessity that may be taken by force."- Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke

...and there are several more babble threads on the same topic

Sat, 2010-01-02 01:03

lonewolfbunn lonewolfbunn's picture

Boom Boom wrote:

Took me two minutes to find these:

Rabble News: Celebrating the beginning of the end of bottled water in Canada

Babble:

Water fountains dying out on Canadian campuses

Thinking outside the bottle (water)

World Water Day, March 22 excerpt from the OP:

Water for profit takes a number of other forms. The bottled-water industry is one of the fastest-growing and least regulated industries in the world, expanding at an annual rate of 20 percent. Last year close to 90 billion liters of bottled water were sold around the world--most of it in nonreusable plastic containers, bringing in profits of $22 billion to this highly polluting industry. Bottled-water companies like Nestlй, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are engaged in a constant search for new water supplies to feed the insatiable appetite of this business. In rural communities all over the world, corporate interests are buying up farmlands, indigenous lands, wilderness tracts and whole water systems, then moving on when sources are depleted. Fierce disputes are being waged in many places over these "water takings," especially in the Third World. As one company explains, water is now "a rationed necessity that may be taken by force."- Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke

...and there are several more babble threads on the same topic

Actually I was a little surprised there was no discussion here about one of the earth's most prescious resources.

I used the search funtion on the righthand corner of the screen. Which search function did you use... your memory? If so I can't compete with that. But if you know of a better way to find out if a topic has been beaten to death then let me know please.

Sat, 2010-01-02 01:43

lonewolfbunn lonewolfbunn's picture

Hey Boom Boonm after reading through each of the links you put up I realized YOU abviously didn't read them as they have nothing to do with what I posted.

But thanks anyway for digging up those topics and making them easily accessible.

Sat, 2010-01-02 11:17

Boom Boom

lonewolfbunn wrote:
Hey Boom Boonm after reading through each of the links you put up I realized YOU abviously didn't read them as they have nothing to do with what I posted.

The point in posting those links was to show that bottled water has in fact been discussed on babble quite extensively - and there are more links I could have added. Just write in "bottled water" into the babble search function and there you go.

Sun, 2010-01-03 00:07

lonewolfbunn lonewolfbunn's picture

Boom Boom wrote:

The point in posting those links was to show that bottled water has in fact been discussed on babble quite extensively - and there are more links I could have added. Just write in "bottled water" into the babble search function and there you go.

Yeah that's exactly what I typed in the search function. It didn't work then but it is working now. Regardless this article is different than those discussed before. They are about water in bottles but...

There was nothing in the other topics about HIGH levels of carcinogens and chemicals that are known to cause birth-defects being in major brands of bottled water.

But I do understand your point.

Sun, 2010-01-03 00:42

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lonewolfbunn lonewolfbunn's picture

remind wrote:

Commercial food production rules allow for poop in the food too...it just has to be below a specific allowable amount.

But it is interesting the complicity all these health orgs and agencies have with corporate poisoning of people.

I remember watching a program about food contaminants. Apparently there is no way to avoid some insect eyes in grain and maggots in mushrooms. The amounts permitted are fairly minuscule. The parts per million permitted is in the low hundreds.

Knowing it was normal and allowed that there could be 300 parts per million of crushed maggots in canned mushrooms was enough to nearly make me vomit then decide to never eat them again even though I love mushrooms.

If there wasn't some level of insect body parts and feces permitted in food most of us would be starving and the little food left on the market would be extremely expensive.

But there is no justification for there to be high levels of carcinogens and birth-defect causing chemicals in water that is marketed as purified.