Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water

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On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew"
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http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 2 2007
Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
by Mike Adams

It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue
label
showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water,
perfect
taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water,
and
many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced
from mountain spring water.
In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get
when
you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered,
purified
Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and
fertilizers...

and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's
certainly not mountain spring water.
[...]

Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled
"spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The
Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing.
No one is picking on Pepsie. It is in the news.
"Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous
amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're
finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just
because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur
make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring"
implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from
fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And
even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have
all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird,
bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining
about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual
living spring?

Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who
complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should
probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my
quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your
toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its
water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such
implications to be below low, negating every other possibly
beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the
whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far
as I'm concerned.

IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by
plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory
"consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that
danger.
It's not only the bottles, it is the tap water being sold as spring. That
is dishonest.
Both the bottles and the water are polluted.

This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive practices
of
some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the
honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on snow-capped
mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into thinking
their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a
mountain
spring.



Pristine?
ha ha ha ha ha ah

Many years ago...like 1970, while driving through western Colorado, I
happenedup a roadside rest area in what is now I-70. There was a rock
outcropping with a small fountain of water coming out of a crack in the
rocks. The water fountain was only two or three inches high. The State
of Colorado maintained the area and had a sign that said that the ater
was ground filtered and came directly from glacier/snow melt.

The water was quite good

Coleah wrote:

Plastic bottles aren't a particular scare for me.

Plastic bottles are a real environmental issue. They
add a lot of chemical to the waste stream. They also
are found way out to sea. Two weeks ago I was 60 miles off the south
shore of LI and there was an area of garbage floating by...with seven or
eight bottled water bottles in the mix.

Vernono O wrote:
All "natural" water has urine, feces and dead bugs and animals in it.
SO?



That is called "nutrition" to some.

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Vernono O wrote:
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew"
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http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 2 2007
Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
by Mike Adams

It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue
label
showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water,
perfect
taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water,
and
many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is
sourced
from mountain spring water.
In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get
when
you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered,
purified
Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and
fertilizers...

and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but
it's
certainly not mountain spring water.
[...]

Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled
"spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The
Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing.
No one is picking on Pepsie. It is in the news.
"Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous
amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're
finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just
because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur
make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring"
implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from
fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And
even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have
all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird,
bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining
about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual
living spring?

Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who
complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should
probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my
quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your
toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its
water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such
implications to be below low, negating every other possibly
beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the
whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far
as I'm concerned.

IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by
plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory
"consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that
danger.
It's not only the bottles, it is the tap water being sold as spring.
That is dishonest.
Both the bottles and the water are polluted.

This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive
practices of
some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the
honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on
snow-capped
mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into
thinking
their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a
mountain
spring.



Pristine?
ha ha ha ha ha ah

Many years ago...like 1970, while driving through western Colorado, I
happenedup a roadside rest area in what is now I-70. There was a rock
outcropping with a small fountain of water coming out of a crack in the
rocks. The water fountain was only two or three inches high. The State of
Colorado maintained the area and had a sign that said that the ater was
ground filtered and came directly from glacier/snow melt.

The water was quite good



Yes there are places like that and the water often tastes quit good.

Pure water has almost no taste.

Melted snow in the mountains and melted snow in a big city taste quite
different.

"Mark Probert" wrote in message
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Vernono O wrote:
All "natural" water has urine, feces and dead bugs and animals in it.
SO?



That is called "nutrition" to some.

And to some it could be nutrition.

Interestingly the purest (most germ free) water in the human body is urine.
It is "safer" than some city water.
Note: Not a promotion to become Hindu.
The most contaminated is saliva.

"Mark Probert" wrote in message
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Coleah wrote:

Plastic bottles aren't a particular scare for me.

Plastic bottles are a real environmental issue.

VERY, VERY, VERY much so.


They
add a lot of chemical to the waste stream. They also
are found way out to sea. Two weeks ago I was 60 miles off the south shore
of LI and there was an area of garbage floating by...with seven or eight
bottled water bottles in the mix.

Vernono O wrote:
"Mark Probert" wrote in message
news:OC8wi.1580$vC4.193@trndny01...
Vernono O wrote:
"Jan Drew" wrote in message
. net...
wrote in message
...
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew"
wrote:

http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 2 2007
Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
by Mike Adams

It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue
label
showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water,
perfect
taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water,
and
many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is
sourced
from mountain spring water.
In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get
when
you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered,
purified
Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and
fertilizers...

and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but
it's
certainly not mountain spring water.
[...]

Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled
"spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The
Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing.
No one is picking on Pepsie. It is in the news.
"Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous
amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're
finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just
because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur
make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring"
implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from
fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And
even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have
all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird,
bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining
about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual
living spring?

Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who
complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should
probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my
quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your
toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its
water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such
implications to be below low, negating every other possibly
beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the
whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far
as I'm concerned.

IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by
plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory
"consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that
danger.
It's not only the bottles, it is the tap water being sold as spring.
That is dishonest.
Both the bottles and the water are polluted.

This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive
practices of
some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the
honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on
snow-capped
mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into
thinking
their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a
mountain
spring.


Pristine?
ha ha ha ha ha ah
Many years ago...like 1970, while driving through western Colorado, I
happenedup a roadside rest area in what is now I-70. There was a rock
outcropping with a small fountain of water coming out of a crack in the
rocks. The water fountain was only two or three inches high. The State of
Colorado maintained the area and had a sign that said that the ater was
ground filtered and came directly from glacier/snow melt.

The water was quite good



Yes there are places like that and the water often tastes quit good.

Pure water has almost no taste.

Melted snow in the mountains and melted snow in a big city taste quite
different.

Do not eat yellow snow.

On Aug 13, 5:53 am, Coleah wrote:
On Aug 12, 10:17 am, wrote:





On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:51:19 GMT, "Jan Drew"

wrote:
http://www.newstarget.com/z021962.html
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 2 2007
Pepsi admits Aquafina comes from tap water
by Mike Adams

It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label
showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect
taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and
many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced
from mountain spring water.

In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get when
you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered, purified

Hopefully removing chlorine and flouride, pesticides and
fertilizers...

and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's
certainly not mountain spring water.

[...]

Yeahbut... isn't this true of all bottled water not labelled
"spring"? Everything's a marketing gimmick, why pick on Pepsi? The
Dasani blue bottles go much further, if you want to talk marketing.

"Mountain spring water" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Natural water supply - spring or well - can contain dangerous
amounts of some minerals. Look at the flouride poisoning they're
finding in India. Excess iron can be a problem, and not just
because of rust stains on clothing; natural phosporous and sulfur
make the water dangerous in some areas. Furthermore, "spring"
implies surface waters, with dangers of contamination from
fertilizers, pesticides, various components of air pollution. And
even if it's pristine as far as the modern world is concerned, have
all those touting spring water considered deer (frog, snake, bird,
bug...) dung? Rotten leaves? Algae? How many of those complaining
about water not being spring water have ever visited an actual
living spring?

Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. It just goes to show that many who
complain about the misleading trigger terms used by others should
probably look at their own. In that vein, I've purposely stopped my
quote before the inflammatory "...the same stuff that fills your
toilet bowl when you flush." I'm quite sure Pepsi isn't sucking its
water out of toilets, and I find intentional use of such
implications to be below low, negating every other possibly
beneficial thing the writer might have had to say. It makes the
whole article just so much more junk written by another loon, as far
as I'm concerned.

IMO all that doesn't matter much if the end product is polluted by
plastic bottles. And it doesn't take a scientist, inflammatory
"consumer advocate", or maniacal label reader to see and avoid that
danger.

--
It's a Consumer Beware world, baby. ALL the way around.

I don't drink bottled water so I don't know if Aquafina states on the
label that the water actually 'comes from a spring' or if it is just
the flowery advertizing wording (like 'heavenly chocolate', etc).
Their commercials state that their water goes through 2 purifications
and 5 filtering processes.

Plastic bottles aren't a particular scare for me.
I recall encountering a plastic/water issue in the early 80's while
visiting a historic site in Korea. They had a continuously running
'fountain' of unknown origin, sitting out in the middle of no where.
It had a plastic measuring cup attached to a string, for visitors to
drink from. After observing the line of people all drinking from the
same cup I wondered about germs, and wasn't even bothered by plastic
issues. The people were healthy and didn't have a care.

I think sometimes people worry in excess, about too many issues, to
really enjoy the ride through life. As the saying goes, "You get what
you resist."- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


I hate to admit it, but I've been a bottled water person for quite
awhile. I knew fairly early on, that most of the water was not really
spring water, or glacier water. And was mainly filtered tap water.

At home, I use one of those little pitchers that has the filter in it,
using my regular tap water. However, when I'm out and about, I use my
favorite fruit flavored waters (Fruit 2-O). I do it primarily to keep
from carbonated drinking soft drinks.

Lately, I have began just refilling my empty water bottle, with the
water from my pitcher with filter, and squeezing a little lemon into
it.

I swim several times a week, and I use the bottled water for those
sessions.

To me, the true value of bottled water has been to divert a person
from drinking soft drinks, which are really hard on the body!

I'm beginning to rely more on my pitcher with filter as the source of
most of my water, and to purchase many fewer actual bottles of water
from the market.

I'm conscious of the land fill issues, all those plastic bottles are
causing.

On Aug 13, 9:01 pm, Mark Probert wrote:

Do not eat yellow snow.-


Mark - Wasn't you, who said that urine was more pure than saliva;-)

Myrl wrote:
On Aug 13, 9:01 pm, Mark Probert wrote:

Do not eat yellow snow.-


Mark - Wasn't you, who said that urine was more pure than saliva;-)

Nope. Vernon