Bottled Water facts
While investigating facts about Bottled Water Delivery and Bottled Water Brands, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage
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Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage
What bottled water is safe to drink?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what bottled water is bpa free. Here are 50 of the best facts about Bottled Water Recall and Bottled Water Vs Tap Water I managed to collect.
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Fiji Water once ran an ad campaign stating "The label says Fiji because it's not bottled in Cleveland". The city of Cleaveland responded by testing both Fiji water and their own tap water. They found 6.3 micrograms of arsenic in Fiji water, and none in their own.
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When Coke marketed their Dasani brand of water in the UK in 2004 it was a PR disaster because they referred to it as "bottled spunk" and used the slogan "can't live without spunk" not realizing "spunk" was a slang word for semen
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Coca Cola had tried to sell bottled water at a premium price which happened to be tap water taken from the mains
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Bottled water brands Perrier, S. Pellegrino and Vittel are all owned by the same company, Nestle. In total Nestle sells water under 50 different brands, including Poland Spring and Zephyrhills.
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The expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not for the water
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A woman suspected a coworker was ejaculating in her water bottle, so she asked her partner to do the same thing to see if the samples matched. They did, and the coworker ended up going to jail.
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Walmart stocks up on strawberry Poptarts before a hurricane as it is a more popular prep item than bottled water.
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Sony sold its waterproof Walkman in a bottle of water to prove it was really waterproof
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In 1960 David Latimer planted a glass bottle (terrarium) with seed and he last watered it in 1972. It was sealed then and is still sustaining itself.
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The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water
Bottled Water data charts
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Why bottled water is good?
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A Michigan woman traded her Twitter handle @DietDrPepper to the Dr. Pepper parent corporation for a truckload of bottled water, which she sent to Flint, Michigan during the contaminated water crisis.
Coca-Cola from McDonald's tastes different compared to plastic bottles and other restaurant chains thanks to unique storage system, water filtration, syrup-to-water ratio, and cooler temperatures - source
Fiji water company ran the slogan "Fiji, because it's not bottled in Cleveland". The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities' tap water. - source
Istanbul has a vending machine that releases food and water for the city's stray dogs in exchange for recycled plastic bottles.
25% of all bottled water in the US comes from the city's tap including Aquafina (Pepsi) & Dasani (Coke) - source
When bottled water tastes weird?
Cher donated 180,000 bottles of water to Flint after their water was discovered unsafe due to lead contamination.
How bottled water is purified?
After Hurricane Katrina, Cuba & Venezuela were the first countries to offer assistance, pledging over $1 million, several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, canned food, bottled water, heating oil, 1,100 doctors and 26.4 metric tons of medicine -but were rejected by the US Government
Nestle's enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don't have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they're actually using.
A financial advisor in California suspected that a colleague was ejaculating in her drink bottle after noticing a strange taste, and had her boyfriend ejaculate into a water bottle to confirm her suspicions. The colleague was fired and charged with assault.
At least 22 million gallons of water is trapped in plastic bottles and thrown into landfills annually in US alone.
Bottled water infographics
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