Bottled water is complicated

Published: July 28, 2007, 11:01 pm

Tags: corporations, food drink, health

In the news this week, PepsiCo made an announcement that they will now note on the labels of their Aquafina bottled water that the water source is a public water source, essentially tap water. A lot of people are not aware that Dasani bottled water (bottled by the Coca-Cola corporation) and Aquafina (bottled by the Pepsi-Co corporation) are nothing more than bottles of public water that you could be pouring from your kitchen faucet into any container. In fact, most people are probably not aware that Coca-Cola and Pepsi are the bottlers of their respective bottled water brands. In all honesty, I had no idea that bottled water was so complicated. When I think about bottled water, I think about the primary compound in nature for which its ingestion is essential for all human beings to sustain themselves. That and it's refreshing when you're dehydrated, you need it to cook and water your lawn, and water parks are awesome. I had no idea there was an

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