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Bottled Tap Water
Water swindlers took the public for billions by selling tap water as
bottled water, but its been going on for years, and up to 40% of
bottled water is and has always been tap water, according to the NRDC
report.
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Pepsi says Aquafina is tap water
27 July 2007 - By Jeffrey Wolf - 9news.com
NEW YORK (CNN) - Pepsi-Cola announced Friday that the
labels of its Aquafina brand bottled water will be changed to make it
clear the product is tap water.
The new bottles will say, "The Aquafina in this bottle is purified
water that originates from a public water source," or something
similar, Pepsi-Cola North America spokeswoman Nicole Bradley told CNN.
The bottles are currently labeled: "Bottled at the source P.W.S."
Americans spent about $2.17 billion on Aquafina last year,
according to Beverage Digest, an independent company that tracks the
global beverage industry. The U.S. bottled water business in 2006
totaled roughly $15 billion, it said.
No timetable was available for when customers will see the
label change on store shelves, another Pepsi spokeswoman, Michelle
Naughton, told CNN.
Pepsi released a statement saying: "If this helps clarify the fact
that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable
thing to do." |
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Comment: It was reasonable to disclose that
information before making billions of dollars in profits.
Coca-Cola does not have plans to change the labeling on its Dasani
brand bottled water, a company spokesman told CNN, despite the fact
the water also comes from a public water supply.
Dasani's U.S. sales totaled approximately $1.89 billion in 2006,
according to Beverage Digest calculations. |
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Comment: See
bottled water pH reports
Nestle also has announced it will be changing the bottles of its All
Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water to "identify the source of
the water, whether it's from a municipal supply or ground-water well
source."
That change "will be showing up on labels this year and is expected to
be on all of these labels by the end of the first quarter of 2008,"
the company said in a written statement.
Nestle has not decided what the new labels will say exactly, a
spokesman told CNN. |
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Comment: Dasani has been banned in some
countries.
All Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water sales in the U.S. totaled
$1.17 billion in 2006, Beverage Digest reports, a large portion of
Nestle Water North America's total U.S. sales of $3.57 billion for the
year, reported by Nestle.
Corporate Accountability International - which describes its work as
challenging "irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the
world" - has been pushing for this change for months with its
nationwide "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign, said spokeswoman
Deborah Lapidus.
Its aim was "to challenge the marketing muscle of the bottled water
corporations and to galvanize support for our public water systems
around the country," she said. The campaign focused on Nestle,
Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
According to a 1999 report by National Resource Defense Council, an
environmental advocacy group based in Washington, "about one-fourth of
bottled water is bottled tap water [and by some accounts, as much as
40 percent is derived from tap water] - sometimes with additional
treatment, sometimes not."
Shares of Pepsi (down $1.18 to $65.66, Charts, Fortune 500) closed
down 1.7 percent to $65.66 on the New York Stock Exchange, while
shares of rival Coke (down $0.70 to $52.28, Charts, Fortune 500)
closed down 1.3 percent to $52.28.
(Copyright CNN. All rights reserved.)
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Comment: When it comes to the public health,
share holders know they are not a factor until someone comes along and
reprimands them after they have already committed the crime, and will
pay no fine, and serve no time. Obviously, this part of the system is
broken. With the current laws, it is legal to bribe, lie, and cheat.
All these companies who did not disclose the truth are still free to
manipulate the public by mass filtering the last remaining water
without oversight and full disclosure. |
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