{"id":1916,"date":"2004-03-27T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/27\/1916.html"},"modified":"2004-03-27T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2004-03-27T16:37:13","slug":"water-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/27\/water-purity\/","title":{"rendered":"Water purity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did y'all know that somewhere around 25%-40% of bottled water in the US is purified tap water?  And did you know that some bottled water (both here and elsewhere) is contaminated?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/story\/0,3604,1174127,00.html\"><cite>Guardian<\/cite> article<\/a> notes that Coca-Cola's brand of bottled water, Dasani, is purified tap water, and that the \"purification\" process Coke has been using in the UK ends up adding twice the legal limit of a carcinogen called bromate.  Any increase in cancer risk due to Dasani is probably small, but the problem was sufficient to get the UK to take all Dasani off store shelves.  I don't know whether there's bromate in the US version of Dasani as well; it's possible US legal limits are different, or it's possible that Coke uses a different process in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The NRDC provides an extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/water\/drinking\/nbw.asp\">article about bottled water<\/a> that notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While most of the tested waters were found to be of high quality, some brands were contaminated: about one-third of the waters tested contained levels of contamination&#8212;including synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria, and arsenic&#8212;in at least one sample that exceeded allowable limits under either state or bottled water industry standards or guidelines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The gist of the article is that purity standards for bottled water are actually lower than for tap water in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in almost entirely unrelated news (but still on the theme of adding impurities to water), Danish artist Marco Evaristti has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/03\/25\/world\/main608688.shtml\">painted an iceberg red<\/a>.  Said Evaristti, \"We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all us.  This is my iceberg; it belongs to me.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did y&#8217;all know that somewhere around 25%-40% of bottled water in the US is purified tap water? And did you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}