Get Coke to Disclose its Water Source
- Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
- on July 22, 2009 at 9:25 am
We’ve been talking some about the relative cleanliness, or lack of cleanliness, of U.S. drinking water. But did you know that some of the most popular bottled water is just tap water put into bottles? (They filter it first, but still.) According to a few recent studies, while people cite the safety of bottled water as the number one reason they choose it over tap water, bottled water is potentially more unsafe. Congress has now sent letters to 13 bottled water companies asking them to disclose their water sources so that they can potentially be more stringently regulated.
Pepsi and Nestle both disclose that Aquafina and Pure Life come from “public water sources,” which isn’t totally clear, but which is better than Coke, which wont say where they get the water to make Dasani, even though we all know it’s just tap water.
So, help pressure Coke into more full discloser with this auto-email form asking the company’s CEO to say where the water they bottle is from.
Thanks, Jaime.
DISCUSSION: 11 Comments
While we’re at it, why don’t we ask them to disclose the content of the sludge they pour onto small farms in India as “fertilizer”
The introduction of Dasani into the UK is a pretty hilarious tale, which ultimately resulted in Coke pulling Dasani from the market after Bromate (a carcinogen) was found to have been introduced by the filtration process. See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani#United_Kingdom
Coke is clearly afraid that we’re all going to stop buying their precious bottled water. When are we going to just ban plastic bottles all together? Check out The Mug Project (http://tiny.cc/m5N2A), a community of individuals and organizations that advocate the use of mugs to reduce waste caused by single serve beverage containers. Last time I checked, mugs held tap water too.
http://www.killercoke.org
Apparently, too many people have been filling out this form. My message bounced back to me.
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Let’s make up our own lies about bottled water!http://www.startalie.com
Is it just the convenience of having water in a bottle to take with you, or are people so gullible that they really think bottled water is superior to tap water ?
If you live in the Los Angeles area, you will understand what I am talking about:LA tap water tastes like recycled sewage water, PERIOD. That is why so many people in Los Angeles and other areas where the tap water tastes unbelievably bad drink bottled water.What people should do is more research. Find the bottled waters that are actually purified, Dasani being one of them (and it tastes great). Other manufactures of bottled water like Arrowhead just bottle water from a source and don’t even purify it.Truth: Water is good for you.Truth: Los Angeles water tastes terribleTwo good reasons to buy quality purified water
People complain about the price of a gallon of gasoline, but have they ever stopped to calculate how much they are paying for a gallon (128 ounces for those that don’t know) of bottled water?
As a former Production Employee At The Coca-Cola Enterprise Bottling Plant in Downey, California. We bottled Dasani, and Canned the full line of Coke Products. While Working The Dasani Lines, You can clearly see the Pipes that run to the Filtration/Osmosis, Filler, etc. systems & machines. They are cearly Labled Ammonia, Nitrogen, and whatever else there was, but the biggest pipe of them all has a green label which clearly reads: “City Water”
I almost forgot to mention… For Anyone living in the Los Angeles Area, may remember about two ago when Downey was on the news because the city water treatment plant failed and contaminated water got in the drinking water supply and unfortunately for residents and businesses, the water which came out of the pipes, water fosets, lawn sprinklers, etc smelled like sewage (actually smelled like feces)… At the coke plant, we had to shut down all production for about a week and we had to pull our warehouse stock of all products canned or bottled over the few days prior to be destroyed. reguardless if the products water supply was processed. Of Course Dasani was one of the product lines ended up being destroyed in our bailers (product/trash crusher).