Bottled Water Use High Among Minorities
Minority parents are disproportionately more likely to give their children bottled water rather than water from the kitchen tap, a cross-sectional survey found.
Latino and African-American children were three times more likely to drink only bottled water than were non-Hispanic white kids (24% versus 8%, P<0.01), according to Marc H. Gorelick, MD, and colleagues from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
The survey respondents cited a number of reasons for relying on the bottled product, including the belief that it’s safer than tap water (OR 2.44, 95% CI 1.44 to 4.22), the researchers reported online in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
The increasing use of bottled water is cause for alarm not only from an environmental perspective but also from a health point of view, with bacterial contamination and illness having been documented in several studies, they explained.
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