No more Aquafina

[Redlyne_mr2]

The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission: its bestselling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Last week, Pepsi agreed to change the labels of Aquafina to indicate the water comes from a public water source. Pepsi agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International, which has been leading an increasingly successful campaign against bottled water.

In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom recently banned city departments from using city money to buy any kind of bottled water. In New York, local residents are being urged to drink tap water. The US Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution that highlighted the importance of municipal water and called for more scrutiny of the impact of bottled water on city waste.

The environmental impact of the country's obsession with bottled water has been staggering. Each day an estimated sixty million plastic water bottles are thrown away. Most are not recycled. The Pacific Institute has estimated twenty million barrels of oil are used each year to make the plastic for water bottles.

Economically, it makes sense to stop buying bottled water, as well. The Arizona Daily Star recently examined the cost difference between bottled water and water from the city's municipal supply. A half-liter of Pepsi's Aquafina at a Tucson convenience store costs $1.39. The bottle contains purified water from the Tucson water supply. From the tap, you can pour over 6.4 gallons for a penny. That makes the bottled stuff about 7,000 times more expensive, even though Aquafina is using the same source of water.

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citation: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...Story/Business

Aquafina tastes like garbage anyways but i really like that barrels of oil reference.

a quick google search will yield many sources for this story.

weeee

[Tik-Tok]

From the tap, you can pour over 6.4 gallons for a penny.

Lucky bastards, we're paying 2.4 gallons per penny here.

[GoChris]

Where do people think water comes from in order to make bottled water

its not like they take it straight from the tap into the bottles, they demineralize and treat it.

those big bottles of water for water coolers...you think they take water from the river, no they have to take it from the tap and then treat it. so its tap water also.

better than shit gross spring water which can have all sorts of who knows what in it from the ground.

[bobby_lu]

Yeah wtf, who really cares...well except those PETA type hippies

[adidas]

Aquafina really blows, i bought their water a few times and never again. To me the tap water seems better then what they got in their bottles.

[kongaj]

surprise... surprise...
I think buying bottled water is retarded. Just buy a brita product and your good to go.

[EK 2.0]

Wow, and I have been preaching Aquafina for years...dammit...



Ryan, I hate you...

[dropdat]

has anyone tried that aquafina juice drink, the citrus and the pomegranite? best drink in the world

[max_boost]

Yeah thanks a lot buddy. I always thought Aquafina was the high end stuff. LOL

[civic_stylez]

FIJI FTW!

[spikerS]

Originally posted by GoChris


better than shit gross spring water which can have all sorts of who knows what in it from the ground.

and lets forget the previous 3-4000+ years that we were drinking it with no real problems other than some stinky outhouses and such.

People forget that we have an immune system for a reason, and it has been getting steadily weaker as more and more products kill 99.9% of germs and crap.

[USHER]

dasani is the same yet they "purify" it, your basically paying for brita water

[rahim]

i think i usually pay for the bottle, its a convenience thing, not a my water is better than your water thing

[Neil4Speed]

Originally posted by rahim
i think i usually pay for the bottle, its a convenience thing, not a my water is better than your water thing

I don't drink it because its "purified water", its just hard to get water anywhere conveniently.

[Hakkola]

I like aquafina because it is the only major brand I've found that doesn't have salt in it, Desani and all the other brands do.

However, knowing it is just tap water is lame, no more Aquafina for me.

Anybody know of any other bottled water that doesn't have salt?

[dino_martini]

Aquafina is bottled in Calgary...

[DRKM]

Originally posted by dino_martini
Aquafina is bottled in Calgary...

^^^ This makes my life! hahaha. I love it when people tell me that tap water is "gross".

Do you figure a lawsuit is in order?

[turbotrip]

only $50 bottles of Bling H20 for me from now on

[lewdvig]

Originally posted by Redlyne_mr2
The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission: its bestselling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Last week, Pepsi agreed to change the labels of Aquafina to indicate the water comes from a public water source. Pepsi agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International, which has been leading an increasingly successful campaign against bottled water.

In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom recently banned city departments from using city money to buy any kind of bottled water. In New York, local residents are being urged to drink tap water. The US Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution that highlighted the importance of municipal water and called for more scrutiny of the impact of bottled water on city waste.

The environmental impact of the country's obsession with bottled water has been staggering. Each day an estimated sixty million plastic water bottles are thrown away. Most are not recycled. The Pacific Institute has estimated twenty million barrels of oil are used each year to make the plastic for water bottles.

Economically, it makes sense to stop buying bottled water, as well. The Arizona Daily Star recently examined the cost difference between bottled water and water from the city's municipal supply. A half-liter of Pepsi's Aquafina at a Tucson convenience store costs $1.39. The bottle contains purified water from the Tucson water supply. From the tap, you can pour over 6.4 gallons for a penny. That makes the bottled stuff about 7,000 times more expensive, even though Aquafina is using the same source of water.

--

citation: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...Story/Business

Aquafina tastes like garbage anyways but i really like that barrels of oil reference.

a quick google search will yield many sources for this story.

weeee

Uh, the label has always said Public Water Source (PWS) and when they first came out with it they announced where it came from. The admission is really that lots of incredibly stupid consumers/sheep/biomass put shit in their bodies without knowing what it is or where it came from.

[lewdvig]

Originally posted by DRKM


^^^ This makes my life! hahaha. I love it when people tell me that tap water is "gross".

Do you figure a lawsuit is in order?

Sue a company because of consumer stupidity? Why not?