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After watching documentaries about America's crumbling infrastructure I've been paranoid about tap water. My thinking is that the less piping that the water tra

After watching documentaries about America's crumbling infrastructure I've been paranoid about tap water. My thinking is that the less piping that the water travels through, the less risk of contamination. I've assumed that bottled water gets bottled right by the its source, minimizing the risk.

noir_lord 10y ago
Sometimes that source is a tap though, infamously Desani in the UK.
exhilaration 10y ago
Depends on the water. The Coke/Pepsi waters (Dasani/Aquafina), among many others, are just purified tap water. So it goes through all the same piping that brings water to most American homes. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/story?id=3428260 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/sto... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani
gumby 10y ago
Beware, Poland Spring (owned by Pepsi) in New England famously bored a well in a property they bought -- that had previously been a paint factory. Because of the success of food regulation in the USA it took a TV station to find this out.
- maxerickson 10y ago
  Poland Spring is owned by Nestle. The previous use of the surface site doesn't necessarily make the aquifer unusable. It would be much more damning if their water was tested and found to have higher than normal levels of volatile organic compounds or whatever.
  - seanp2k2 10y ago
    I think that the "paint factory" part is "amusing" due to lead. Oakland had lots of lead in the soil from previous industrial contamination: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Oakland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Oaklan...
  - gumby 10y ago
    Thanks for catching the pepsi/Nestle error. Yes, the paint factory was a superfund site. So this wasn't the "it's just tap water" story, it turned out to be an actual public health issue.

noir_lord 10y ago

Sometimes that source is a tap though, infamously Desani in the UK.

exhilaration 10y ago

Depends on the water. The Coke/Pepsi waters (Dasani/Aquafina), among many others, are just purified tap water. So it goes through all the same piping that brings water to most American homes. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/story?id=3428260 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/sto... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani

gumby 10y ago

Beware, Poland Spring (owned by Pepsi) in New England famously bored a well in a property they bought -- that had previously been a paint factory. Because of the success of food regulation in the USA it took a TV station to find this out.

maxerickson 10y ago
Poland Spring is owned by Nestle. The previous use of the surface site doesn't necessarily make the aquifer unusable. It would be much more damning if their water was tested and found to have higher than normal levels of volatile organic compounds or whatever.
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  I think that the "paint factory" part is "amusing" due to lead. Oakland had lots of lead in the soil from previous industrial contamination: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Oakland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Oaklan...
- gumby 10y ago
  Thanks for catching the pepsi/Nestle error. Yes, the paint factory was a superfund site. So this wasn't the "it's just tap water" story, it turned out to be an actual public health issue.