Do You Know What's In Your Bottled Water?

I wanted to share this eye-opening article from the Environmental Working Group from a couple of months ago. I try to keep up with their news, as they always post things you don't ever find in the main-stream media, and they are a great third-party source for healthy news and studies about greener living and reducing our toxic load.

The part I found the most interesting was that filtered tap water received a MUCH higher grade than any of the listed bottle water brands! Getting a good water filter can literally save you thousands of dollars over the years, not to mention, you will get as good (or better!) quality water, plus help save the environment from all those plastic bottles. (See below for a few suggestions for water filters.)

Image via Wikipedia01/07/2011 - Published by the Environmental Working Group; www.ewg.org

Labels on expensive bottled water may lead us to think the water inside comes from pristine springs or has amazing healing powers. But bottled water companies don't have to tell us what is in those bottles.

EWG decided to look at what they do tell us. And the story can be summed up in a few words: not much.

EWG's just-released 2011 Bottled Water Scorecard, http://tinyurl.com/3xv2dmo, grades more than 170 bottled waters on the information they do or do not disclose on their labels and websites.

When we looked for answers to obvious questions -- Where does the water come from? Is it purified? How? Have tests found any contaminants? -- nine out of the ten best-selling brands didn't answer at least one of those questions.

Yahoo! published this investigation on their home page and Green section and it made a huge splash (no pun intended).

Because we know you care about what you drink, and feed your family -- we wanted to make sure you saw this important right-to-know report.

Click here to see Yahoo!'s take on the best and worst of the brands they looked at, http://tinyurl.com/2doq3ha.

A Few Water Filters Suggested by the EWG: