Bottled Water Contains Hundreds Of Thousands Of Potentially Toxic Tiny Plastics, Study Finds

A new study found a liter of bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics, which experts believe may cause health risks like gastrointestinal disorders, birth defects and increased mortality.

 Do you drink bottled water? Read this

Bottled water is atrocious for the environment. You’re better off buying a water filter for healthier, tastier water.

 Which Water Is Best For Health? Hint: Don't Discount The Tap

You can buy water with electrolytes, minerals or completely "purified." You can buy it with the pH changed to make it alkaline. You can purify your own tap water or even add nutrients back into it. But after seeing a video of a pricey, high-tech filter (about $400 U.S. on sale) that you can monitor with your phone, we wondered, how much of our water filtration fixation is healthy, and how much of it is hype?

Bottled Water, Nothing is Really Clear or Pure

Besides cluttering up the planet, bottled water may not be as healthy as you think!

Bottled Water Is Evil—but Not Because of the Water

The reasons are endless. If you put all 30 billion plastic water bottles purchased in America in 2011 end-to-end, it would stretch to the moon and back seven times. We’ve all seen the documentaries showing what happens to most of that plastic. (Spoiler: It never, ever, goes away.) What’s more, we burn 17 million barrels of oil just to package up water this way (enough to power a million cars for a year), not to mention the amount we use to truck those little bottles around. (Many of which are just filled with purified tap water, anyway.)

Bottled Water or Tap: How Much Does Your Choice Matter?

What’s your daily plastic habit doing to the planet? Take this quiz and find out.

Bottled water sources flow amid drought

Wells, springs are not metered, not subject to restrictions.

EWG's Bottled Water Scorecard

Although this is data from 2011, it gives you idea that...when you shell out for bottled water, which costs up to 1,900 times more than tap water, you have a right to know what exactly is inside that pricey plastic bottle. Most bottled makers don’t agree. They keep secret some or all the answers to these elementary questions: Where does the water come from? Is it purified? How? Have tests found any contaminants?

Should I stop drinking bottled water?

Do you get a healthier, safer and more refreshing drink when you buy it off the shelf? The answer is ‘no’, and doing so hurts the environment and your wallet.

Starbucks Bottled Water Highlights Sourcing Problems

It is time for Americans to wake up and realize that bottled water should be for emergency purposes only. There are folks in California whose wells are going dry, and they are on waiting lists to have either new wells installed or have their wells drilled deeper. Out of necessity, they are using bottled water.

Study: Bottled Water No Safer Than Tap Water

Bottled water is the world's fastest growing beverage, but consumers would be better served by simply turning on the tap, asserts an environmental group.

The Blindingly Obvious Truth About Bottled Water

Gleick claims that Americans are abandoning tap water for bottled water for four reasons, namely...

Water Scam Alert!

In general, I understand the reasons people prefer bottled water – hey, we want to be drinking pure water, not chemicals. I’m right there with you. But there are some major considerations if you are concerned about the environment, about water pollution, about resources and sustainability, and, as a matter of fact, about your health.

Why Do People Believe Bottled Water Is Better?

In other words, widespread perception of toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals polluting tap water. Once the beverage industry understood this was driving consumer interest in bottled water, it set about explicitly marketing it as a safer alternative to assuage precisely these concerns.

You'll Never Unlearn How Many Germs Are On Your Water Bottle

We love reusable water bottles for being environmentally friendly and their cost effectiveness. But let’s be real: They’re a pain to continuously clean. That may prompt us to skip a few washes and keep using them. And, as it turns out, this could result in ingesting a host of germs along with our H2O.

Coke and Pepsi Want to Sell You Bottled Water Without the Bottle

The soda giants are planning for a future where single-use plastic bottles may be banned.

Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis

Facing a consumer backlash and stricter regulation, companies are trying to do what’s eluded them for years: make a better bottle.

Which Bottled Water is the Best?

When I pick bottled water I look for a spring water to obtain beneficial minerals in moderate amounts with a pH of 7.4 or higher. And, if it’s available, I’ll choose a glass container over plastic to avoid the possibility of leaching. You can choose the bottled water that suits your purpose, whether that’s to experience a delightfully unique taste to compliment a fine dinner or a healthy and environmentally appropriate choice.

A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'

Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments.

Bottled water is a scam: PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and the beverage industry’s greatest con

Multinationals have made billions off the myth that tap water is unhealthy. Here's what they don't want you to know.

Drinking from a Bottle Instead of the Tap Just Doesn't Hold Water

Some 2.7 million tons of petroleum-derived plastic are used to bottle water worldwide every year, and costs consumers up to 1,900 times more than tap water.

In a thirsty world... Bottled water seems wasteful

The environmental cost of the massive consumption of bottled water has led some U.S. and Canadian local governments to consider a ban its sale. While this seems an extreme response, the scientific concerns are well-founded, and the facts may surprise you.

Microplastic Contamination Is Found in Most Bottled Water, a New Study Says

Drinking from a plastic water bottle likely means ingesting microplastic particles, a new study claims, prompting fresh concerns — and calls for scientific research — on the possible health implications of widespread plastics pollution.

Plastic Water Bottle Pollution: Where Do All the Bottles End Up?

Here are just 15 of the most dangerous ways bottled water is polluting the earth, one bottle of water at a time, as well as six things you can do about plastic water bottle pollution.

Plastic-Free Water: Coming To A Grocery Store Near You?

The United States boasts the world’s largest bottled water consumer market and growing. In 2016, sales amounted to approximately 12.8 billion gallons with two brands generating more than 1 billion in U.S. sales each. Convenience and a healthy zero calorie beverage option lead the reason to its positive trajectory. Last month, the world’s first plastic-free supermarket opened in Amsterdam as a pilot program. Can America catch up?

Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop To Drink

Thanks to the faddish explosion of the green movement, bottled water has become the latest—and purest—symbol of crass conspicuous consumption.

Water, Water Everywhere—in Bottles

Despite obvious drawbacks—the plastic and the extra cost for something essentially free out of the tap—thirst for bottled water just keeps growing.

We Keep Buying Bottled Water Because We Fear Death

Ads for bottled water make it seem safer and purer than normal tap water, researchers say.