PUFY 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Xylene, Disinfectant, Coliform Bacteria
25 Jun 2018
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Sustainable Systems PUFY1100-B FA 2014
Bottled Water: Market Overview and Regulations in the U.S.
Tapped - Research Notes
0:47-0:50 Americans bought more than 29 billions bottles of water in 2007
12:12-12:30 Nestle corporation waging legal battles against local communities (in California,
Michigan Maine) to take secure local water mining rights.
12:30-12:58 “Water is a basic human right. It’s necessary for the survival of life on the planet.
When you start commodifying the necessities of life in such a way as to make it more difficult for
people to gain access to those necessities, you have the basis for serious political instability”
- Representative Dennis Kucinich
13:00-13:40 Every day large bottled water corporations like Nestle and Coca-Cola pump
millions of gallons of water from the Earth, bottle it and ship it for 1900 times the cost of tap
water. Serious marketing, almost to the point where it’s unethical.
14:10-14:15 There is enough water for human need, but not for human greed - Gandhi
Ban The Bottle - Notes (full article on google drive)
http://www.banthebottle.net/articles/reiterating-why-you-should-not-buy-bottled-water/
The projected water market
People are expected to spend nearly $270 billion on bottled water by 2020, up from $157 billion
in 2013, according to estimates released last month by Transparency Market Research
Chemical analysis of bottled water, Is it even safe?
Bottled water is not without chemicals, according to studies of European bottled waters carried
out in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France— one published in 2011 and the other in 2013 —
by Martin Wagner, a scientist at Goethe University Frankfurt’s Department of Aquatic
Ecotoxicology. “Bottled water had a higher contamination of chemicals than glass bottles,” he
says. “There are many compounds in bottled water that we don’t want to have there.”
Among the main compounds Wagner found: Endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, which
can act like hormones in the body and have been linked to diabetes, breast cancer and
cardiovascular disease.
NRDC - Pure Drink or Pure Hype? (full article on google drive)
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/exesum.asp
Bottled Water Sales
More than half of all Americans drink bottled water; about a third of the public consumes
it regularly. Sales have tripled in the past 10 years, to about $4 billion a year. This sales
bonanza has been fueled by ubiquitous ads picturing towering mountains, pristine
glaciers, and crystal-clear springs nestled in untouched forests yielding absolutely pure
water. But is the marketing image of total purity accurate?
The untruthful marketing of bottled water
According to government and industry estimates, about one fourth of bottled water is
bottled tap water (as much as 40 percent is derived from tap water).
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Document Summary
Bottled water: market overview and regulations in the u. s. 0:47-0:50 americans bought more than 29 billions bottles of water in 2007. 12:12-12:30 nestle corporation waging legal battles against local communities (in california, Michigan maine) to take secure local water mining rights. It"s necessary for the survival of life on the planet. When you start commodifying the necessities of life in such a way as to make it more difficult for people to gain access to those necessities, you have the basis for serious political instability . 13:00-13:40 every day large bottled water corporations like nestle and coca-cola pump millions of gallons of water from the earth, bottle it and ship it for 1900 times the cost of tap water. Serious marketing, almost to the point where it"s unethical. 14:10-14:15 there is enough water for human need, but not for human greed - gandhi. Ban the bottle - notes (full article on google drive) http://www. banthebottle. net/articles/reiterating-why-you-should-not-buy-bottled-water/
