Showing posts with label Environmental Working Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environmental Working Group. Show all posts

Sunday, May 27, 2012

What Is The Healthiest Bottled Water? (It's A Trick Question)


The first thing I learned when researching what is the healthiest bottled water was: drink tap water.

According to the Environmental Working Group's 2011 Bottled Water Scorecard, nine out of the ten best-selling brands of bottled water could not answer at least one of the following key questions:

Key Health Questions Regarding Bottled Water:
1. Where does the water come from?
2. Is it purified; and if so, how?
3. Have tests found any contaminants?

How is it possible that mega-popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani can't answer a simple question like where their water comes from? How can we be sold a product so essential for life -- and so intimately connected to our health -- like water and not be informed about these basic things? And why don't we care more?