Re: it's the water [was: apologia]

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 10, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
> Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> > Anyway, Cox was going on about how much better
> > off we are these days because we have innovations like many varieties
> > of bottled water, even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
> > periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of doo-doo.
>
> but haven't other studies found that tap water is often cleaner than
> bottled water?

I believe one of the criticisms of the bottled water fad is that
whereas the tap water is regulated (for % faecal content, etc) there
is very little of that for the bottled stuff. See:

http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/nbw.asp
(yet another badly formatted web page, unfortunately)

       --ravi