Bottled Water vs. Tap Water
Is PET safe for bottled water?
Is reusing plastic water bottles safe?
Does toxic antimony leach from plastic PET HDPE water bottles?
Where can I find NRDC 1999 Bottled Water Lab Analysis Test Results?
HDPE seems to be pretty safe, check here:
http://trusted.md/blog/vreni_gurd/2007/03/29/plastic_water_bottles
The ONLY thing that might possibly be bad that I have found that does leach from PET water bottles is ANTIMONY (a toxic element).
But it has only been found in low safe levels.
http://geopig.asu.edu/people/Prapaipong/publications/Westerhoff2007.pdf
Here you can find NRDC 1999 Bottled Water Lab Analysis Test Results:
Here are the actual test results from the NRDC in a 1999 analysis of bottled waters:
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/appa.asp#notecg
This is the only actual lab analysis I’ve found about bottled waters. But you can compare it to your local water supply analysis which comes in the mail every year from your water company.
Or they may provide it online like mine:
Big Bear City, California Water Quality Analysis
http://www.bbccsd.org/uploads/2008WaterQualityRepot.pdf
Please send me links to anything interesting about bottled water!
There is 300ppm total dissolved solids in my tap water (including fluoride, chlorides, uranium, copper, sodium and many more at “allowable levels”)
The bottom line is that a bottled water that has been filtered and treated well has almost ZERO dissolved solids!
So stop drinking your high calorie sugar waters and drink some pure zero calorie bottled water. Just make sure to recycle.
Further Research:
Flow - For the love of water: http://www.flowthefilm.com/