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Aquafina: Pepsi Admits It's Just Tap Water

forbes.com — The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner said Friday.

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  • robwilkens, on 10/10/2007, -39/+7I'm glad pepsi admitted that, but I could've sworn that aquafina was a Coke product (Coke is a competitor to pepsi). I'm actually relieved that it is tap water because I once read that a 'source' of aquafina's water was: "The Detroit River", and I think Tap Water would tend to be a little safer.
    • MrBabyMan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Coke's equivalent is Dasani, and who knows, it may be tap water too!
      • whistlerpro, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6It is.

        WHAT DOES DASANI COME FROM?

        TO CREATE DASANI, COCA-COLA BOTTLERS START WITH THE LOCAL WATER SUPPLY, WHICH IS THEN FILTERED FOR PURITY USING A STATE-OF-THE-ART PROCESS CALLED REVERSE OSMOSIS. THE PURIFIED WATER IS THEN ENHANCED WITH A SPECIAL BLEND OF MINERALS FOR A PURE, CRISP, FRESH TASTE.

        Yum.
        • nymphetamine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Sir, please keep your voice down.
        • pastasauce, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4OR AT LEAST MAKE YOUR CAPS BOLD.
        • emjaymj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Why does it matter? The process of reverse osmosis is VERY thorough. Too thorough even, to the point where they end up needed to replace the minerals taken out. Using water from springs in the Alps or glaciers in the arctic would be a waste of resources and money, because after reverse osmosis, the end product is going to be the EXACT same thing.
        • Jeffler, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5Emjaymi:

          So why does Dasani taste like *****?
          • luciferin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Those minerals they add back in.
          • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dasani doesn't taste like water?

            Wow, I must be ***** insane.
      • KloroFormd, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4The Detroit river running through the filters Pepsi uses would be cleaner than the filtered sewage that runs through your local sewage treatment plants and out your tap.

        Either way, it's filtered. What's the news here? All the water we drink has at one time been through the digestive tract of a living creature...
        • luciferin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You know they don't pump filtered sewage water into reservoirs, right? In most cases they will run off into a river or bay, depending on where you live. That way when the system gets too much water, like after a day or two of heavy rain, and they have to dump unprocessed water, you kill a bunch of fish instead of people.
        • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The news is that Aquafina costs $1.50 for a plastic bottle where the same amount in tap costs probably less than a cent in tax dollars.
      • Latka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Watch this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani#United_Kingdom
    • realclark, on 10/10/2007, -4/+59coke is a competitor to pepsi????.....wow thanks for the update!!
    • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17They never pretended to be spring water. You didn't know that it was tap water?
    • justsomedigger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12ive got a bottle in front of me.. - "Aquafina, Pure water - perfect taste, Purified Drinking water. All bottled waters are not the same, Aquafinas state of the art Hydro-7 purification system consistently removes substances most other bottled waters leave in. So the only thing you taste in your water...is water. Aquafina pure water. Perfect Taste. Every time.

      nowhere on the bottle does it claim to be spring water or anything of the sort.. personally i dont mind that its purified tap water.. aquafina is much cheaper and tastes just as good as any other bottled water..
      • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Hey, guess what!

        Tap water is exactly the ***** same.
        • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3not really. There's no chlorine, flouride, lead, etc in aquafina.
          • vawksel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah but there is a nice plastic smell to it, with bits of plastic residue floating in your water.
      • realclark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the water goes through an intensive valmorification process.....lol......do you work for pepsi??
    • boonesfarm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Detroit River!? You're thinking of AquaMorte'.
    • phort99, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Here's my favorite part of this article:
      " 'We don't believe that consumers are confused about the source of Dasani water,' Coca-Cola spokeswoman Diana Garza Ciarlante said. 'The label clearly states that it is purified water.' "
      Purified == tap water? If that's the case, then there's no confusion at all about its source, to anyone with an encyclopedia! Oh wait...
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water
      "Purified water can come from any source, including spring water, well water, seawater, or municipal water." Wow, coincidentally debunked in the article's first sentence! So yeah, we all agree that the label clearly states that Dasani is purified water, which apparently means that the source of the water could be... just about anything. I'm glad we got that cleared up.
    • takeda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc - *****! program about bottled water (worth to watch)
    • Elranzer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Aquafina--I think it means: The end of water as we know it." - Lewis Black
  • robwilkens, on 10/10/2007, -48/+1I'm glad pepsi admitted that, but I could've sworn that aquafina was a Coke product (Coke is a competitor to pepsi). I'm actually relieved that it is tap water because I once read that a 'source' of aquafina's water was: "The Detroit River", and I think Tap Water would tend to be a little safer.
    • haydesigner, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2You might actually want to take 20 seconds of your life and check those kind of facts before you "swear" in front of people with a collective brain.
  • scooterbaga, on 10/10/2007, -26/+10Who the hell cares? It's the "purified" part that's important. At least it's not "natural spring water"... you may as well drink from a mud puddle...
    • Modulo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4you don't know what the words "natural" and "spring" mean, do you?
  • Caruthers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+102I knew it.

    Now if I could only prove that the ginger ale at the coffee shop is just Coke and Sprite mixed together.
  • fernB, on 10/10/2007, -10/+159wow so the ingredient in water is water... AMAZING
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -14/+2That ***** doesn't taste like water though, I don't know why anyone drinks it. It has the consistency of vegetable oil.
  • ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -26/+15Digg - news from Reddit hours later
    • Jushooter, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7So true.
    • kaelyiesta, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You mean news from ***** months later. Penn and Teller exposed this a long time ago, who cares if a company finally admits it. Thats just caving to the truth everyone already knows.
      • Nitesmoke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Penn and Teller hammered this topic. They fed people water from the same hose over and over, told em it was glacier water from wherever, and the people loved it. http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/05/bottled-water-is-*****.html
        • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2@cdnyny

          They say it's biased as hell, but they don't lie. I don't think they would have shown it to THAT many people and not tell us.

          Plus, if you're in a fancy restaurant, you're a) gullible enough to fall for that ***** and b) probably too scared to say that they taste the same.
  • NsinU8, on 10/10/2007, -4/+57They have never denied that fact. It was always marked on the bottle. Every brand of bottled water not marked natural spring water is just filtered water. The FDA says that the source has to be a "natural spring" in order to advertise the brand as such. Nonetheless.... Filtered Mississippi water? No thanks!
    • jcm267, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14filtered water is fine. Better than drinking spring water with a certain percentage of "nitrates" in it.
    • archlich, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14They were always labeled as having municipal water. I'm surprised this many people didn't know...
      • Niten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Same goes for almost all these brands. Zephyrhills comes from the Zephyrhills, FL municipal water supply.

        (Though in this case it means that it technically is spring water; a lot of Florida gets its water from the springs.)
    • dggeek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1"Filtered Mississippi water? No thanks!"

      Yeah, cause that ***** will kill you. The only reason the human race has survived this long is because we've had bottled water since the beginning of time.
  • PatNolan, on 10/10/2007, -9/+6But god I want one of those filters for my town's water...
  • ronk, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Waiting for Ozarka to reveal that its water is pipe water too..
  • NachoBusiness, on 10/10/2007, -4/+84Seriously, get a $15 water filter at Walmart, I use a Pur. Put it on your tap. Get a jug of some sort and fill it up every night with filtered water, put it in the fridge. Chilled, great tasting water. After a few months of that, normal tap water will taste nasty, but bottled water won't taste particularly better than what you're used to.

    Why people lug cases of bottled water into their house is beyond me... a cheap filter gives you as the same quality water for much less money and hassle.
    • beta1, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3I do it for the convenience. I bring a cup or glass up to my room, don't finish it, then 2 days later I kick it on to my computer or sometihng. And I could pour it into a water bottle or something but then I might as well go to temple in the morning, lol.
      • millstheman70, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0So you keep a plastic water bottle in your room. After those things sit for a day or two. Yikes..the bacteria really takes off. Get a water container, like a Nalgene. There not expensive and they have a top and you can wash it.
    • santaliqueur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Or, unless your town has deemed the water unfit for consumption, drink it out of the tap. I assume the water is cleaner now than it was 20 years ago before all these "water purifier" products started arriving, and somehow nobody got sick from drinking (safe) tap water.
      • Niten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I think a lot of people realize there's absolutely no health benefit to filtering their tap water, but do it anyway for the taste.

        I drink straight tap water myself, but I suppose I may have it better than some; my city's water comes from the Floridian aquifer and from local springs, so it tastes pretty good to begin with.
    • blubadger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3One thing that a water filter won't get rid of : pesticides and industrial chemicals. If you don't want to drink those, and you live near heavy industry or crop farmland, expensive mountain spring water is your only choice.
      • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Wow, what kind of municipal water system do you have in your country?? They don't clean it of pesticides, industrial chemicals, it tastes bad, needs filtering or bottles? Where do you live? Ethiopia?? Over here, tap water taste great and you would have a hard time finding someone who could tell the difference... I guess we're just lucky then.
      • hesse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know where you get your information but the adsorbant in common filters (activated carbon) is great at removing pesticides and other organic compounds.
        http://pested.unl.edu/pesticide/pages/index.jsp?what=newsLetterD&newsLetterId=131
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon

        Heavy metals on the other hand, not so good. But as Jugalator said, if you live in a developed country and you can't get safe drinking water, you've got much bigger problems to worry about.
      • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, expensive mountain spring water is also *****, but if it's the difference between that and pesticides, I guess it's worth it.
      • DinX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Buy a reverse osmosis filter.
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2This doesn't work with hard water. It may be safe to drink, but it tastes like *****.
    • The_Dude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's called a water softener. Unless you're a renter of an apartment in which case, enjoy paying for water.
    • alpinweiss88, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Convenience. We buy bottled water, but probably not nearly as much as some people I have seen. It is easier to grab a bottle when you go out for a walk, or on a drive somewhere. I live in AZ, where it is important to stay hydrated. We have a filter on our fridge, and we drink from that when we are at home. We still have a Brita pitcher, but don't use it anymore (saves fridge space). But I would say we don't drink a lot of the bottled stuff, it is just a nice convenience to have on occasion. I would drink from the tap, but we have hard water here, and a softener would cost more than just buying a case of bottled every month or two.
    • raymore, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2***** Wal-mart
    • drakethegreat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The Seattle City Utilities sent out a message that said the tap water here is purified by them before it gets to us and that its some of the cleanest water in the country. So I just drink it straight from the tap with some ice. Its just as refreshing as any brita or bottled water. I mean unless the pipes themselves contain something harmful or you can actually taste the difference then there is no way that a water filter or bottled water is any better then regular tap...
    • reventlov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Another thing you won't get with a filter on your tap: tons of empty bottles! The amount of fossil fuels consumed in manufacturing and distributing bottled water is completely ***** insane, especially for "premium" water. Compared to the amount used by a single pitcher, a tap filter, and re-use, bottled water is downright criminal.

      But I can see how people think bottled water is safer and/or better... they're idiots. They're probably stocking up for a big terrorist attack.
  • mrpind, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2where is the tap water from? i hope its not outsourced from Malaysia
    • MrNewbie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Brampton, Ontario, Canada -- about 20mins Northwest of Toronto. Canadian "Dasani" sources, anyhow.
  • SlappyMc, on 10/10/2007, -14/+57The geniuses behind evian water named it that because the people that buy bottled water are naive. Or so they say.
  • chopenik, on 10/10/2007, -11/+6Kinda sux. One of the reasons why I buy bottled water is to get away from flouride which is added to most tap water.
    • esotericguy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5you mean ur trying to AVOID the stuff that you use to brush ur teeth with morning, noon, and night?
      • Ahnteis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Duuuuuude. That stuff like... controls yer mind!
      • pipedreambomb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You brush your teeth at noon?
      • mpn401, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Flouride is not something you're supposed to drink. In toothpaste, you just spit it out. I'll stick with my well and bottled water.
    • MrNewbie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The CBC did a series a while back about how the majority of MontrĂ©al doesn't put fluoride in its water, and how rates of tooth decay in those areas are the some of the highest in Canada off of reserves (and that's another issue entirely).
    • littleblckheart, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
      Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
      General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
      Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
      General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
      Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
      General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
      Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
      General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
      Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
      General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
      Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
      General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.

      http://imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes
  • Vashinred, on 10/10/2007, -15/+23Was Submitted already, Bury please.

    http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Surprise_Pepsi_s_Aquafina_bottled_water_is_from_a_Public_Water_Source
    • AshTR, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4The above story is still in the Top Stories. Bury this dupe.
    • JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Not going to happen. People don't care about dupes anymore, it seems.
  • FadieZ, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Penn & Teller: *****

    http://video.google.ca/url?docid=6769966377964903559&esrc=sr2&ev=v&q=penn%2Bteller%*****%2Bwater&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXfPAjUvvnIc&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D6769966377964903559%26q%3Dpenn%2Bteller%*****%2Bwater%26total%3D23%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D1&usg=AL29H209OfJxFJT-P8SkJTAULCcXi4Spiw
  • chi1thook, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1I'm sure it's more than tap water, some employee would of peed on it. First yellow snow, now yellow tap water.
  • univerio, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11Dupe.
  • fixty, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Amazing article about the history of the bottled water con, i mean industry:

    http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle_Printer_Friendly.html
  • Lynxplus, on 10/10/2007, -12/+3Best bottled water by far is Fiji.
  • horizontaleight, on 10/10/2007, -8/+11digg - stories about tap water, apple, top 10 lists, and ron paul
    • OAKsider, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1+ Random photo galleries from five years ago. And dupes of said gallery.

      Goddammit...
    • supaklaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and your forgetting LOLcats...
  • Bajeda, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10This is such a dupe its not even funny. Theres an article on the same thing in the TOP TEN!
  • Zonghui, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11I don't see what the big deal is. I already knew Aquafina was just regular water that has been purified.

    I don't care where it comes from, I drink it because it tastes better than ordinary tap water. It could be from a rusty old rain barrel for all I care. As long as they clean it up and put it in a nice bottle its all the same to me.
    • jb0nd38372, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Well since your so eager to spend your money, I sure could use a new computer :)
      • mmortal03, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3One generally pays for the convenience, not the water itself.
        • axcess99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You know the only way it could be more convenient that picking up individual bottles of of your grocery store shelves and driving them home to your house and stocking them away in your cupboards? Maybe having an unlimited supply piped directly into your house.

          Or maybe if you really like drinking from those plastic bottles and you don't want to buy reusable water-bottles, you could refill them from your tap 4 or 5 times before kicking the empties to the curb.
    • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"I don't care where it comes from, I drink it because it tastes better than ordinary tap water."

      Then you really have a problem with your tap water and should bring that problem up instead of putting up with it and just keep spending lots of money on those bottles. Over here, there's no discernible difference between the two if you'd use blind test, but I understand in some parts of the world, it's not as good. However, don't forget that tap water is also purified, and that goes pretty much everywhere. There may be a difference in how it's done though. In mediterranean countries, it use to taste much more chlorine than here for example.
  • Nick22, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4FFS this is on the bloody top 10 list, quit submitting dupes people. Bury this crap
  • DiggzDE, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14Cough....http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Surprise_Pepsi_s_Aquafina_bottled_water_is_from_a_Public_Water_Source... cough....


    Man. This damn cough...

    • penneyisok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is it just me or is this happen way to often. Most of these duplicated storys are not even a day old. Many times there both on the top 10. There is a previous button on the bottom of every page for a reason.... This is getting sad...
  • psYcon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6wtf is Water?
  • ionbattle, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3I thought everyone knew that pretty much all water unless it's labeled distilled is just tap water... I think by law the water has to come from municipal taps...it just depends on what they do to it after the tap.
  • varunb007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I think it's just as pure as water from any other company due to all their purification stages. No matter where the water comes from, there is gonna be random minerals and junk in there that needs to be filtered out. Filters like Brita do a good job but it just uses one technique for filtering so I doubt you could achieve the level of purity that a company using multiple purification techniques such as osmosis and distillation can achieve. In the end, it's just some sensationalist smearing campaign fueled by people's preconceived perceptions and skepticism in science.
    • ApeInago, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1most tap water has already been filtered... this is why its stupid. 1$ for a redudant filtering cycle. Due to deminishing returns, you've maybe reduced the bad stuff by fractions of a percent. half of nothing is still nothing. most bottled waters, a study shown, actually had HIGHER concentrations of heavy metals and poisons than most tap water anyway.
      • fireball74, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That study never has been done here. We have a man made lake for the majority of our water. There have been dead and decomposing bodies pulled from it. Some bodies were never found. Other than that, the water would be considered more brackish than anything else. So they filter it through rocks and chlorinate the hell out of it. Some days it smells like a lake, sometimes a pool, and even more times it's cloudy and thicker than water should be. It's really nasty. I've never had bottled water that bad.

        Also, how can OR water have more poisons and heavy metals than it did before? Sounds suspicious.
  • Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2I laugh at people who think bottled water is better than tap water. The only reason to have bottled water is if you're an African missionary or some other guy on a humanitarian goal when there's no other water source. Also, if your water turns brown or tastes like rust, FIX YOUR GODDAMN PLUMBING. If you absolutely can't drink your local tap water because of its taste, then bring your own bottle.
    • varunb007, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Well, tap water has more impurities in it than bottled water. If that's better, then you're right. Given the choice, I would prefer the purest water I could get.
      • Ahnteis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You probably wouldn't. Most people don't like pure distilled water because it's more-or-less tasteless. Very bland.
        • varunb007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If I need flavor, I'll buy the filtered product with flavors added. I'd prefer that over tap water with random crap.
        • ApeInago, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water-bottled-unsafe-drinking.htm

          "Although often advertising themselves as superior to tap water, bottlers are required in most cases only to meet the same quality standards as tap water.

          Of the hundreds of contaminants state and federal regulators measure, bottled water is subject to a higher standard for only two, according to Randy Kanouse, EBMUD's Sacramento lobbyist.

          Bottlers don't have to create a "consumer confidence" report each year like water agencies do. The reports tell customers what's in their water. It details levels of contaminants, if any, like lead, aluminium, arsenic and salt. "

      • Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If we're talking about spring water then I hope you enjoy all your lovely nitrates that have leaked into the ground from the nearby farms.
        Get a reverse osmosis filter if you prefer distilled water (don't drink it all the time, it's not too great for you).
      • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, tap water was actually put up to standards that forbid it from having potentially dangerous amounts of arsenic in it; sure enough, it failed.

        http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/nbw.asp
  • Lane, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3where else would they get water? OMG people are buying other Pepsi products that are in and of itself is made from tap water too! spread the word!!!
  • Cahill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I am pretty sure it's labeled on the bottle where the water comes from. This isn't news, I have known about this since high school. Just from getting water from the vending machine.
  • ZxieuS, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5this is just Dasani all over again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani check the United Kingdom Section
  • tunafizzle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I remember when the same thing happened to Coke's Dasani brand a couple years ago. Some of that fancy Fiji or Evian stuff tastes a little better than tap water, but not worth the horrible prices. I suggest everyone get well water. It'll blow your mind how much better it is than any city water, bottled water, pur water. I guarantee you anyone with well water in their home will agree.
    • ApeInago, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2not with double blind taste tests... water is water.
    • CrazedChemist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have well water and I disagree, it tastes horrible. My grandmas well water tastes even worse.
  • bytecolor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Lewis Black on bottled water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGWn-aWn5g
  • coffeebot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3personally, i can tell the difference between tap water and bottled water. the bottled water comes in bottles.
  • Mizzike, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2We always knew bottled water was "bottled at the source" ... but what we were never told, for obvious reasons, is, "the source of what?" In this and many other cases, it's simply the tap. It's just "bottled water." Nothing more.
  • Wartyboskfapped, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Duplicate story.
  • DannyAndNina, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3 Buried for being a duplicate of original story: http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Aquafina_Bottles_Will_Now_Reveal_Their_Water_s_Source_The_Tap
  • hipRealtor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Figgered. I've always hated the plastic/metallic taste of Aquafina - yuck.
    Same goes for Brita water - ish.

    Reverse-osmosis water is the best - only 35cents a gal at the store - (byob!)
  • TheKorn2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3....so what?

    Buy and use bottled water because you're going someplace where you don't have access to water. Like, oh, a mountain top. Or even a long bike ride in the park.

    Better yet, buy a few then refill them. Same sh*t, same bottle.
    • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Buy and use bottled water because you're going someplace where you don't have access to water."

      Huh? Isn't it much cheaper to fill a bottle with tap water? :-S
  • pamon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5and starbucks is just plain coffee too
    • troyallen069, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Who goes to Starbucks for the coffee. I go for the hot ladies
  • SingingMongoose, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3We spent 16,000,000 barrels of oil on bottled water containers last year, as well as twice as much water was actually put in the containers. This fad is more than just obnoxious; it's wasteful and completely unnecessary. Cities trying to ban the products are taking a step in the right direction.
    • Nitesmoke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3while i hate bottled water as much as the next *****, i dont want my city telling me what to drink. Then they would have a monopoly on the water. Do you want your only source of H2O to come from the govt'? Thats how they put the acid in you.
      • modpancake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Water is an expensive thing to hate. Personally, I'd hate to see your life expectancy.
    • bbear, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So you have no objection to bottled soda? How many barrels of oil did we spend on that? Some of us want to drink water but don't want to carry it around with us all day - a gallon of water is heavy. People who choose water over sugar beverages are making a healthy choice for themselves. A step in the right direction is banning all beverages made with high fructose corn syrup. You should be drinking water.
  • Nanobe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Misleading title. It's not "just tap water". It's filtered tap water, which in theory is exactly the same as filtered spring water, assuming the filtering process is effective.

    That said, regular unfiltered tap water is probably better for you than filtered water in most of the U.S. The impurities don't cause any harm and may even help build your immune system. (Remember that story about how eatings boogers might slightly boost your immune system? Same concept.)

    I carry around a large water bottle which I just keep refilling with tap water. Cheap and convenient.
  • yagotmeseruchi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Freeport, NY has the best water in the country.
  • HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Did you think they assembled it from pure hydrogen and oxygen?

    Of course it's just treated water.
  • Nitesmoke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I wonder if this super clean water is even really good for us. Kinda like the people whole go OCD on germ killing lotions and hand washing actually get sicker than dirty people because they have no immunity. People drank natural water up until 2 generations ago. I wonder if as the water gets cleaner, does our immunity of the things that were in the water drop?
    • ricksite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't think it is the bacteria in the water people are worried about. It is the chemicals. Nitrates in the drinking water can be a problem for young children. This is caused by fertilizer runoff.
  • snopromise, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Looking at these two articles about the same thing next to each other on the front page. Sigh.
  • dadadigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Someone can correct me if I'm wrong (and give me sources to prove it), but doesn't Dasani state that it's a product of reverse osmosis filtration? If that's true, then I don't care if it originally comes from a public water supply.

    Unless things have changed, RO systems are the most effective way to filter water. I have a unit in my home, and after getting accustomed to it, I can tell when I drink water that isn't RO. Dasani sure tastes like RO to me.

    I don't know about Aquafina. I have tried it, but it was a couple of years ago.
    • utropicmedia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yes, Aquafina uses reverse osmosis.. Those other filters such as Pur and Brita do not remove harmful fluoride and chlorine.. Most of you may think fluroide is good for you, but there are many health-related risks associated with dumping it into our drinking water. Many countries have banned it from entering public drinking supplies. This is one of the reasons I will continue to drink reverse osmosified water.
  • 4MySales, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2I was discussing this very topic with a co-worker just a few days ago. Many people don't realize that there is not an appreciable difference between the water in bottles and the water in most municiple taps.

    -4MySales
  • insanerp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0if there are any aussies reading, i hope u know that 'pump' bottled water is also just purified Sydney tap water
  • giveer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1People complaining about their particular city's tap water drive me batty. It's like they've forgotten that our tap water is SOOO good, we can't travel to other countries and drink the water they drink because our bodies have eliminated the means to fight off anything but absolutely pure water.
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