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... Bottled water is drinking
water packaged in bottles for individual consumption and retail sale. The
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The International
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A 1.5 litre bottle of water
Bottled water is drinking water packaged in bottles for individual consumption and retail sale.
The water used can be glacial water, spring water, well water, purified water or simply water from the public water supply (tap water).[1] Many countries, particularly developed countries, regulate the quality of bottled water through government standards, typically used to ensure that water quality is safe and labels accurately reflect bottle contents. In many developing countries, however, such standards are variable and are often less stringent than those of developed nations.[citation needed]
While bottled water companies are facing criticism from activists saying the product's plastic harms the environment and privatizes a basic human right, the bottled water industry has countered those claims. For instance, though organizations such as Corporate Accountability International say that "millions" plastic bottles end up in landfulls, the industry points out that PET bottles make up only one-third of 1 percent of the waste stream in the United States. [2]
Meanwhile, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and World Wildlife Fund have all urged their supporters to consume less bottled water and various campaigns against bottled water are starting to appear. Though many of these campaigns claim that bottled water is no better than tap water, the fact is that some bottled water companies use municipal water as the source, but it is additionally purified or treated.
Therefore, as the International Bottled Water Association states, bottled water "is not simply tap water in a bottle."
These anti-bottled water campaigns also fail to explain that their claims of so-called "corporate control" of water sources is only a reference to the three main water companies: Coke, Pepsi and Nestle, which make up a small segment of the bottled water industry. More than 60 percent of water bottlers are made up of small businesses with annual sales of less than $1 million and a few employees, while the overwhelming majority have sales of less than $10 million.[3]
Supporters of bottled water view the product not just as an alternative for municipal water, but as a healthy choice instead of soft drinks or sport drinks that can be purchased in restaurants, convenience stores or vending machines.
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