I didn't know this before today, and figured I would share.
I read this article about Nestle Waters (which sells brands including Perrier, Poland Spring and Deer Creek) building a new water bottling plant in Indiana. I didn't really care until I read that the plant is just going to hook up the municipal water supply and bottle the tap water that comes out. And they're not even going to run it through a Brita first.
Turns out a bunch of the other water-bottlers do this too. Apparently this is old news, because I found a bunch of articles from July on CNN.com. Anyway, It threw me because these companies seem to be so blatantly misleading with their ads.
Here's one of the articles from this summer, about Pepsi's Aquafina brand.
Anyway, not sure if everyone knew this already. But I think it's gross - first that if we buy Perrier it could just be Indiana tap water, and second, that I've spent probably $100 on the stuff over the past year while turning my nose up at my own tap water.
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Don't ruin bottled water for us just like you ruined $3 pitchers at Bowl-A-Rama!!! DON'T YOU DO IT!!!
But no I agree, that's pretty deflating news... although i did always suspect that some of those shitty tasting waters (Aquafina and Nestle) might not actually be the fresh-from-a-babbling-brook quality that they purport
That's before you even get into the environmental impact. The number of bottles that ends up in landfills is stagering, plus take a look at the pic on this page to get an idea of how much oil is used for bottled water.
http://www.hippyshopper.com/2006/08/how_much_oil_di.html
end hippy rant
Also, I miss $3 pitchers.
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