Bottled Water Right From The Tap
Bottle water is less popular than it was just a few years ago, and the producers might have themselves to blame. A new study finds that nearly half the bottled water produced in the United States is filled with municipal tap water.
The report comes from the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Their research shows that filtered tap water made up 47.8% of the bottled water packaged in 2009. That figure is up from 32.7% in 2000.
The group’s director issued a statement where she said, “more and more bottled water is basically the same product that flows from consumer taps, subsidized by taxpayer dollars. It’s then poured into an environmentally destructive package and sold for thousands of times its actual value.”
Research by the Beverage Marketing Corporation shows the sale of bottled water increased sharply from 2002 to 2007 but has since fallen.
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