The bottled water boom of the 90s is now, some 20 years later, past its peak. Increasingly, people are becoming aware that all of those plastic bottles do not just magically appear, and more importantly, do not just magically disappear either. In addition, numerous studies and consumer reports tell us that as much as 25 percent of those bottles contain essentially the same water as we might get from the tap at around 1/2oth of the cost.
As far as what does come out of the tap, the EPA has recently decided to turn things up a notch in that area as well, by including not only substances known to pose health hazards to Americans directly, but also substances that are believed to work as precursors to potential health concerns–in other words, the causes behind the causes. Read More
