The Wellness of You! # 215 — Bottled Water?
How much do you spend each month on bottled water? If you’re like most people you probably spend a considerable amount each month. Even if you go to the local discount store and buy a huge quantity, you’re still going to be spending some hard-earned dollars for something that may not have the benefits you desire.
Most of us feel that using bottled water, rather than tap water, will be beneficial to our health. Well, I have some bad news for us. Many brands are full of chemicals and bacteria. Common tap water has stricter purity standards and, in many cases, is better for you.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates tap water, but the FDA oversees the bottled water industry. And, by law, the FDA has the power to “selectively follow” the EPA’s rules - enforcing some of those rules and ignoring others. This gives big business the opportunity to sell you expensive bottled water that is anything but safe. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that bottled water is definitely big business. Global sales top $35 billion every year. (That’s billion, folks.)
Here are some of the surprising results from a recent study by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC):
* Over 25 percent of bottled water is actually tap water from municipal water supplies.
* A popular brand of “spring water” - with a label depicting a lake and mountains - comes from a well in the parking lot of an industrial facility. (The parking lot is right next door to a hazardous waste dump.)
* About 30 percent of bottled water has chemical and bacterial contamination above the levels considered safe by state and industry regulations.
* In some cases, levels of arsenic in the bottled water tested by the NRDC were at “a level of potential health concern.”
Your best bet for safe, clean drinking water is to put in an under-sink purifier. The reverse-osmosis type is very reliable. If you don’t want to invest the money to do that, a simple pitcher with a charcoal filter is better than most bottled water. I happen to be lucky in that the water right out of my tap is just fine. I know that’s not true in all cases, so using some sort of home filter makes a lot of sense.
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