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Project Bottled Water:
Help build our database
EWG is about to embark on a new study about bottled water--where it comes from, how it's "purified," and if it's even worth the expense. A big part of this project is just compiling the data, so we need your help to gather information from the labels of whatever bottled water you have at hand.
In order to help, we'd like for you to tell us:
- What brand?
- Where did you purchase it?
- How much did you pay?
- What type of container?
On the first day, Project Bottled Water netted over 1,000 labels in under four hours, and we've got about 3,000 now--that's more than halfway to our target of 5k in about four days. Nice work, folks! With your help, we'd like to get those 2,000 more by Thursday, March 22rd.
Also, if you'd like to use the button pictured above on your blog or website, use the following code:
<a href="http://www.ewg.org/issues/bottledwater/"><img src="http://www.ewg.org/temp/pbwbadge.gif" width="100" height="150" border="0" ></a>
Your bottled water project - great, but- aren't you going to include the issues of 1) how it takes more water to make the plastic bottle than what's in it 2) the cost of transporting water - petro + pollution 3) the dangers of the plastic leaching into the water
4) the wastefulness/pollution of plastic small containers 5) the related issue of water privatization ?
I include links to your cosmetic and pesticide info on our ngo website, and we are wanting to highlight the negative issues around bottled water. Thanks Diane
I used to drink a popular brand of bottled water -- till I put a test strip in it and as soon as it touched the water it turned bright purple, indicating the highest level of pesticides.
I told Meijuer, where I bought the water and testing kit. I had to jump through hoops to get anyone at the water company to talk to me (I think they feared a lawsuit), and I never got any feedback from them about what -- if anything -- they did about it.
Wouldn't touch bottled water again. That test took away my appetite for it.
Hi Diane,
Thanks for your interest in our bottled water project. The issues that you mentioned are all very important and are of great concern to many people. The purpose of our detailed webform is to conduct a broad-based survey of potential contamination in and resulting from bottled water. Ultimately, we hope to include all the important factors in our assessment.
Nneka Leiba
Environmental Health Researcher
EWG