Bottled Water Blues

The Williamette River

Filtered water from the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon may soon be bottled and sold by Dasani.

The Oregonian newspaper reports that Coca-Cola Bottling of Oregon plans a $35 million expansion of its suburban Wilsonville plant near Interstate 5 to include Dasani water.

Critics say that filtering and bottling tap water, as Dasani and some other brands do, just packs landfills with bottles when people could simply turn on a faucet in their homes. Over 2 million tons of plastic bottles are landfilled every year! Only 1 out of every 10 bottles are actually recycled.

Did you know that the FDA does not regulate water that is bottled and sold in the same state? FDA guidelines even allow a small amount of fecal matter in bottle water. That's disgusting and completely unacceptable.

And people want to pay extra for this stuff? In 2007, Americans spent over 11 billion dollars on bottled water. Bottled water is second only to soda. Depending on the brand, bottled water costs from 25 cents to 10 dollars a gallon! That's more than the price of gas or even beer! Multi-Pure has always been the better solution: better for your health, better for your wallet, and better for your planet. This seems like such a no-brainer to me.

- Trina -