Friday, May 28, 2010

Bottled Water is Scary

If I had not scared you away from bottled water already because of BPA, here is another reason to avoid it. In a recent study carried out by at Montreal's C-crest Laboratories in Canada, over 70% of bottled water from leading brands of bottled water had bacteria levels that were beyond the level considered to be acceptable. In some cases the water had 100 times more bacteria than was permitted. These levels are set by the NGO United States Pharmacopeia.

Read more one the article at The Montreal Gazette

Bottled water contributes to an amount of plastic swirling in the Pacific Gyre the size of Texas. Bottled water should be limited to emergency circumstances and should not be consumed on a day to day basis because of the potential trouble posed to our health from pharmaceuticals and BPA in the water and the amount of waste that is created with each plastic bottle.

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