Main Conclusions from National Resources Defense Council Study on Bottled Water.

People in the USA are buying more and more bottled water.
The bottled water industry is worth $4 billion-a-year business in the USA alone. For some reason which does not make too much sense millions of consumers pay between 240 and 10,000 times more per gallon of bottled water compared to the cost of tap water.
Some bottled water contains bacteria, and several brands of bottled water contain organic chemicals including industrial solvents, and a range of other very undesirable chemicals.
Bottled water regulations are far from good enough as explained in the report. The report also goes on to show instances of misleading marketing of some brands of bottled water. Read this important report here if you buy bottled water.
There are alternatives to buying bottled water if the quality of tap water is of concern.
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