Is Bottled Water Really Good For Us?

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Is Bottled Water Really Good For Us?

• Presented by
• Linda Gogola

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Statistics

• Bottled water market constantly growing
• Average consumption by adults 700 liters per
  year
• Average per person is 90.5 liters per year
• Accounts for 11 billion each year
• Second to pop and mineral water

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Why Do We Drink Bottled Water?

• Fashion
• Convenience
• Fitness conscious
• Perceived safety
• Taste
• Designer wars for the fashion conscious

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Is Bottled Water Really Safe?

• Where does your bottled water come from?
• What chemicals are in the bottle?
• Magnesium, Calcium, Chlorine, Potassium, Sodium,
  Lead
• How do they affect the body?
• Long term effects

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What Chemicals are in Bottled Water

• Sodium
• Fluoride
• Chlorine
• Lead
• pH level
• Bacteria

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Other Bottled Water Surprises

• Metal chips
• Melted plastic
• Glass fragments

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Some of the Brands Tested

• Texas
• Nestle Natural Spring Water
• Natural Spring Water
• Ozark Natural Spring Water
• Pennsylvania
• Dannon Fluoridated Spring Water
• Florida
• Walgreens Spring Water
• Dannon Spring Water

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Some of the Brands Tested

• Louisiana
• Kroger Spring Water
• Fiesta Spring Water
• Tennessee
• Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water
• Imported Water
• Evian Natural Spring Water
• Glacia Natural Spring Water

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Appropriate for everyone?

• Urinary frequency/urgency
• Immunosuppressed individuals
• Hypertension
• Children

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Regulations

• World Health Organization involvement
• Food and Drug Administration
• Bottled water is a food
• Environmental Protection Agency

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Effects on the Environment

• It takes about 63 million gallons of oil each
  year
• Toxic waste byproducts of bottles
• Enormous amounts of energy to produce the bottles
  made up of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
• More than 85 of the bottles wind up in landfills
• Others are incinerated

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Bottled Water Dos

• Check the labels and read the content
• It may be appropriate to not only drink bottled
  water but to drink some tap water as well.
• Check your bottle
• It may just be filtered municipal water
• It may be partly mineral partly municipal water

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References

• Al-Awquati, A., (2007). Thirst and bottled water
  everywhere, Kidney International, 71, p.
  11911192
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  (2008). Commercially bottled water retrieved on
  April 5, 2009 from http//www.cdc.gov/healthywater
  /drinking/bottled.
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2008). FDA
  regulates the safety of bottled water retrieved
  on April 5, 2009 from http//www.cfsan.fda.gov/dm
  s/ffbotwat.html.
• Hazards of bottled drinking water retrieved on
  April 7, 2009 from www.water-drinking.com/index.sh
  tml.
• Mahajan, R.K., Walia, T.P.S., Lark, B.S., and
  Sumnajit (2006). Analysis of physical and
  chemical parameters of bottled drinking water,
  International Journal of Environmental Health
  Research, 16(2), p. 89-98.
• Momani, K.A., (2006). Chemical assessment of
  bottled drinking waters by IC, GC, and ICP-MS,
  Instrumentation Science and Technology, 34, p.
  587-605.
• Niman, M.I. (2007). Bottled insanity, The
  Humanist, May-June 2007, p. 40-41.

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References

• Saleh, M.A., Abdel-Rahman, F.H., Woodard, B.B.,
  Clark, S., Wallace, C., Aboaba, A., Zhang, W.,
  and Nance, J.H. (2008). Chemical, microbial and
  physical evaluation of commercial bottled waters
  in greater Houston area of Texas, Journal of
  Environmental Science and Health Part A, 43, p.
  335-347.
• Tyagi, S., Tyagi, P., Chancellor, M.B., and
  Thomas, C., (2007) Effect of bottled drinking
  water on cell viability of human urothelium , The
  Internet Journal of Urology, 5(1), p.
• Weaver, M., and Reynolds, B., (2009). Bottling
  industry makes eco-strides, Institute of
  Industrial Engineers, p. 26-27.
• World Health Organization (WHO) (2000). Bottled
  drinking water retrieved on April 5, 2009 from
  http//www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs256/en
  /.