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Is Bottled Water Really Good For Us?

Is Bottled Water Really Good For Us?. Presented by: Linda Gogola. 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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Is Bottled Water Really Good For Us?

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  1. Is Bottled Water Really Good For Us? Presented by: Linda Gogola

  2. 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

  3. Why Do We Drink Bottled Water? • Fashion • Convenience • Fitness conscious • Perceived safety • Taste • Designer wars for the fashion conscious

  4. 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

  5. What Chemicals are in Bottled Water • Sodium • Fluoride • Chlorine • Lead • pH level • Bacteria

  6. Other Bottled Water Surprises • Metal chips • Melted plastic • Glass fragments

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Appropriate for everyone? • Urinary frequency/urgency • Immunosuppressed individuals • Hypertension • Children

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

  11. 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

  12. Bottled Water Do’s • 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

  13. References • Al-Awquati, A., (2007). Thirst and bottled water everywhere, Kidney International, 71, p. 1191–1192 • 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/~dms/ffbotwat.html. • Hazards of bottled drinking water retrieved on April 7, 2009 from www.water-drinking.com/index.shtml. • 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.

  14. 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/.

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