2010-04-22

Bottled and Sold: What's Really in Our Bottled Water

AlterNet

What's been found in bottled water? Here's a few: benzene, mold, kerosene, styrene, algae, yeast, sand, fecal coliforms, glass particles, sanitizer and crickets.

My new book on bottled water is out, at last. “Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water” (Island Press, Washington) has apparently (according to reports from my secret field agents) started appearing in book stores. You’ve been able to order it online for a while through Island Press, Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and other places.

There are some great stories in the book: here is a little one, about what’s sometimes found in our bottled water.

You don’t find what you don’t look for. This maxim holds true for arms control, as Ronald Reagan noted. And it holds true for contaminants in bottled water. One would think and expect that bottled water would be cleaner than our tap water. But is it?

Read more at the source above.

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