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According to them: Avoid Nestle Pure Life. San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK.

• notheguyouthink 9y ago
  Wish I knew where Kirkland stood on this. I drink that stuff like... water.
  • drubio 9y ago
    Kirkland sources their products with regional/national producers and rebrands them. So the contents of your Kirkland water depend on which Costco you purchase it from. Source: A friend of mine brokers deals with producers to rebrand them as Kirkland products. Perishables like 'Kirkland' Ham, 'Kirkland' Cheese, 'Kirkland' Ice Cream are packaged by different companies depending on the Costco (Costco Canada, Costco East Coast, Costco West Coast). Where as other stuff like 'Kirkland' jeans are brokered globally. Water likely falls at the national/regional level with one of the major brands, so 'Kirkland' water in Canada is likely a different kind of 'Kirkland' water sold in California.
    • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
      I wonder if any supermarkets just ship empty bottles and fill it on location?
• dom96 9y ago
  But which Nestle Pure Life? They're not all sourced from the same place, are they?
• jaclaz 9y ago
  >According to them: Avoid Nestle Pure Life. San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK. Naah, water is usually bottled locally, they tested some brands in: U.S., Kenya, China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico and Thailand (and called it "global"), but a same brand may - even in the same country - come from a different spring or bottling plant, so you are never "safe" (nor "in danger") because of this or that brand. Just in case the actual "paper" (actualy only a "report"): https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterReport.pdf https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterRe... And as a side note/observation, the classification of any plastic particle smaller than 5 millimeters as "microplastics" has been given (and it makes sense) in the context of marine/ocean related sciences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics it makes (to me) little sense to call "micro" anything that can be seen by the naked eye in the context of impurities in a bottle of water. 5 mm? Come on, they are nearly the size of marbles we played with as kids ...
  • seszett 9y ago
    I don't know about the others but Evian and San Pellegrino each come from one source, respectively situated in Évian-les-Bains, France and San Pellegrino Terme, Italy.
    • jaclaz 9y ago
      >I don't know about the others but Evian and San Pellegrino each come from one source, respectively situated in Évian-les-Bains, France and San Pellegrino Terme, Italy. Yes, that applies to San Pellegrino (and most probably Evian also) but San Pellegrino (the company, which is anyway Nestlè) has 6 bottling plants in Italy: https://www.sanpellegrino-corporate.it/it/stabilimenti-59 https://www.sanpellegrino-corporate.it/it/stabilimenti-59 While it is true that San Pellegrino brand water is exclusively coming from San Pellegrino (and as well Acqua Panna comes from Scarperia only and Levissima comes from Cepina Valdisotto only) the other three plants are anyway marked as "Nestlè Vera" (with of course a distincion on the spring, respectively "fonte in Bosco", "fonte Santa Rosalia", "fonte Naturae")[1]. I believe (possibly I am wrong) that in many (non-EU) countries the bottled water is more like a "pure brand" than a "specific spring". [1]See page 63 of this .pdf: https://www.sanpellegrino-corporate.it/files/valorecondiviso/RapportoCSV.pdf https://www.sanpellegrino-corporate.it/files/valorecondiviso...