More proof that bottled water is a pre-packaged LIE
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commissioned a study of the first-class of 10 domestic brands of bottled water. The ten brands have been bought from eight one of a kind states and the District of Columbia, then despatched to the University of Iowa's Hygienic Laboratory for evaluation. Samples have been additionally despatched to the University of Missouri for in addition analysis. You can study about the methodology of the assessments right here.
Municipalities are required to check for contaminants every year after which to make the consequences of these assessments available to the public. Check the internet site of your municipality to discover what's for your faucet water. The bottled water industry has no such requirement.
The EWP's examine concluded:
Altogether, the analyses carried out via the University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory of these 10 manufacturers of bottled water found out a extensive variety of pollution, together with no longer handiest disinfection byproducts, however additionally not unusual city wastewater pollution like caffeine and pharmaceuticals (Tylenol); heavy metals and minerals which include arsenic and radioactive isotopes; fertilizer residue (nitrate and ammonia); and a vast range of different, tentatively identified commercial chemicals used as solvents, plasticizers, viscosity lowering marketers, and propellants.
Read the take a look at. Stop shopping for and using bottled water. Today.
