{"id":2323,"date":"2009-07-20T03:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T05:33:36","slug":"water-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/water-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/research\/your-bottled-water-worth-it\/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Environmental Working Group&#8217;s report on bottled water<\/a>\u00a0is worth a read&#8230; it&#8217;s quite an eye-opener.\u00a0 In 2008, they created a database representing 137 different commercial brands, and then analyzed both the labels and website information.\u00a0 The results were pretty revealing&#8230; and disappointing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only 2 of 188<strong> <\/strong>bottled waters surveyed make public 3 basic facts about their products routinely disclosed by municipal water utilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The water\u2019s source;<\/li>\n<li>Purification methods;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chemical pollutants remaining after treatment.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reason: bottled water companies enjoy a regulatory holiday under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which grants them complete latitude to decide what, if any, information about their water is divulged to customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bottled water is undeniably convenient, but much of its popularity rests on soft-focus imagery,\u00a0vague, comforting buzzwords like &#8220;natural&#8221;, &#8220;crisp&#8221;, &#8220;pure&#8221;, etc.,\u00a0and some damn\u00a0clever advertising:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQcVllWpwGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cute&#8230; but are\u00a0people paying\u00a0for perception &#8211; or reality?\u00a0Considering the greater expense involved\u00a0(both to the consumer and <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/environment\/2008-06-07-bottled-water_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the environment<\/a>), consumers certainly have a right to know what they&#8217;re getting for their $$$&#8230; and whether it actually meets &#8211; much less exceeds &#8211; the standards set for plain ol&#8217; municipal drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Working Group&#8217;s report on bottled water\u00a0is worth a read&#8230; it&#8217;s quite an eye-opener.\u00a0 In 2008, they created a database representing 137 different commercial brands, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14,28],"tags":[259,545,595,1606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}