Stricter labeling urged for bottled water / LJWorld.com

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Associated Press

July 9, 2009

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports.

Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, recommend in reports released Wednesday that bottled water be labeled with the same level of information municipal water providers must disclose.

The researchers urged Americans to make bottled water “a distant second choice” to filtered tap water because there isn’t enough information about bottled water. The working group recommends purifying tap water with a commercial filter, however.

Both reports were released at a congressional subcommittee.

Bottled water — an industry worth about $16 billion in sales last year — has been suffering lately as colleges, communities and some governments take measures to limit or ban its consumption. As employers, they are motivated by cost savings and environmental concern because the bottles often are not recycled.

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igby (Anonymous) says…

This group needs to drink turd infested tap water coated with chemicals, it will improve their brain capacity. May be that's why all these greenie liberals all are starting to look a like. Even their kids all have “Brady Bunch” hair. That's got to be the reason, Darwin was right.
9 July 2009
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xbusguy (Anonymous) says…

I put tap water in a bottle…. double whammy
9 July 2009
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…

I moved away from Lawrence to a rural area far away. You all should be very very grateful for Lawrence water. While our water 'tests' to gov standards, if you let it evaporate a bit, the ring can't be removed with steel wool. That never happened in Lawrence. Have to admit, after seeing that, I buy gallon jugs and haul it home or drink diet soda.
9 July 2009
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dogbait (Anonymous) says…

Its all about money!
9 July 2009
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gl0ck0wn3r (Anonymous) says…

If there is one thing the government needs to regulate more, it is bottled water. They have nothing better to do.

(Voss sparkling > all)