Aquafina source is same as for tap

[Herman Munster]

http://www.miamiherald.com/795/story/184958.html

NEW YORK -- So you thought that water in your Aquafina bottle came from some far-away spring bubbling deep in a glen?

Try the same place as the water in your tap.

PepsiCo Inc. is the latest company to offer some clarity about the source of its top-selling bottled water as it announced on Friday it would change the label on Aquafina water bottles to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water.

A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices. The group has criticized PepsiCo over its blue Aquafina label with a mountain logo as perpetuating the misconception that the water comes from spring sources.

[KittyWampus]

1. No, I didn't think it came from a spring. It has been purified, however. So it's NOT THE SAME AS TAP

I don't drink it. Unless I'm out somewheres and need water.

It is not the same as tap water, however which tastes disgusting with chlorine.

[Kagemusha]

2. Thanks for the concise summary.

This issue has made me philosophically ill this weekend from all the "it's tap water" rants around the net.

[JI7]

6. personally i find tap water to" taste" better than bottled water

the tap water where i'm at is just fine and that's what i drink. the people who drink bottled in this area and others where the tap is just fine are wasting money.

[regnaD kciN]

14. Their purification process works wonders, though...

Seattle water isn't bad, but the Aquafina-filtered version is the best water I've ever tasted, bar none.

Interestingly enough, I wonder if many of those who imply that Aquafina is committing consumer fraud also happen to have Brita systems in their homes because they think the water tastes better? What else is Brita but filtration of their tap water?

:wtf:

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Spell 'Evian' Backwards

This industry has perpetrated a $100B fraud upon the public - not to mention all the fuel used to transport bottled water...and then consider the colossal quantity of plastic-bottle waste.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. My dad kept a bottle of water on his desk for YEARS

Why?

Because in bold letters above the barcode it said "Source: Dade County Water Supply"

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. We use dehydrated water, saves space, makes the neighbors

envious. On another note, consider what Evian spelled backwards is... and you might have to be to spend 2 dollars on a bottle of water.

[Bluebear]

7. 'consider what Evian spelled backwards is'

Now that's cosmic.

[lordsummerisle]

8. The plastic bottle waste issue

alone should discourage users.

[aquart]

9. I knew this years ago. Why is it suddenly new news?

[candice]

10. Buy a Brita filter and don't contribute to more environmental waste...

...oil to manufacture the plastic bottles, oil to ship the water, oil to carry the bottles away (if they are recycled). Recycling energy costs. Most end up in the landfill. Your pocketbook is lightened by buying water twice, from your utility company and then from a corporation.

I stopped buying water for environmental reasons, but then our tap water is very good, and a Brita filter takes out anything that might be problematic.

The requirements for bottled water aren't as stringent.

[Tulum_Moon]

12. It's not "news"

Who keeps yelling that? The soda company's? I would not drink water from a spring anyway. All the crap in there would kill us. Tap is fine in the U.S. Just does not taste very good in some places.

[Maddy McCall]

11. So is Dasani, made by Coca Cola.

Wonder why that's not getting any press.

[flyarm]

13. if you are building new house or redoing sink or kitchen put a water purifier in by faucet!!

i have and it is wonderful!!

and i have my own refillable bottles that i keep in frig ready to go at all times..i just bring the bottles home when done and put in dishwasher! and recyle.

oh and it tastes better than bottle water you buy!

fly