Associated Press – July 27, 2007:
The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand’s owner said Friday.
Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled “P.W.S.” The new labels will spell out “public water source.”
“If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it’s a reasonable thing to do,”
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Psst – coffee isn’t included for a very good reason – caffeine promotes dehydration – as does ethanol. And that is not merely “supported by medical evidence” it’s an incontestible fact.
#30…Fusion….dead water is what the article called it. It’s bottled water that has been filtered extensively or gone through the reverse osmosis process. That removes all the trace elements and minerals from the water…so they called it *dead water*.
While I don’t know the health benifits, if any of those trace elements and minerals, a couple of articles I’ve read said they actually are benificial and if you have a choice between a decent tap water or a bottle of highly filtered water with all the trace elements removed, drink the tap water.
Phoenix has some of the worst tasting tap water I have ever had. The canals are not only for irrigation, but for aquifer recharging. All of southern Arizona is an annual rainfall area of 4″ to 8″, which isn’t enough to replenish the aquifer anymore. The metropolitian area of Phoenix now has over 3 million people living in it, an area that shouldn’t have more than a few hundred thousand at best. But Phoenix is a problem all it’s own. No other area of the state has water issues like they do.
Our ranch is approx. 45 miles west of downtown Phoenix, directly along l10 and about 5 miles north of l10. The farm lands up until 6 years ago were located west of a town called Buckeye. But the land has been used for cotton growing and over fertilized for 70 years, so when my Dad and my brother decided to go organic they sold the original farm lands and bought virgin land south of l10 about 6 miles along the mostly dry riverbed of the Hassyampa River. It solved several problems, new land, no chemical contamination, moved us beyond the 25 year urban sprawl limits and easy acess to groundwater for irrigation. The ranch and the farm both are part of the Salt River sub basin aquifer. But the whole area out there is part of a much larger regional aquifer. The point being that the water is about as pure as you could ask for. Due to the depth of the water table, even chemical fertilizers are filtered out before they can contaminate the ground water…..hence we have really pure water. We are required to add almost nothing to the water, so it’s basically natural, as long as it’s for our use and not sold to a public water company. But we are required by state law to test it every 4 months because we use it for animals and irrigation of food stuff to be sold publically. We use no canal water for recharging or drinking or irrigating, even though by law we are entitled to a canal water allotment.
As you can see, water issues out here in the southwest are at best complicated……lol
I don’t understand what the fuss is all about- they get their water from an already approved public water source, and purify it further- I would think that makes it cleaner than other water which isn’t held to any regulations before going through the purification process!