Bottled Water

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Bottled Water The Truth

• David Coon
• California State University, San Marcos

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Forms Origins

• Municipal sources
• Artesian sources
• Natural springs
• Distilled

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Truths Myths

• Bottled Water Is Pure Myth
• Bottle Water Is Safer Myth
• Bottled Water Tastes Better Myth
• Bottled Safer for Environment Myth
• Best for Intense Workouts Myth
• Better than Soda True
• Bottles Leach Chemicals True

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Leaching Bottle Re-use

• Bottles made of Polyethylene Terephthalate
• Leaching chemicals are minimal
• No health threat
• No link to cancer
• Wash bottles before re-use
• Keep out of a hot car
• Freezing is okay

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North County Water

• Miramar Treatment Plant
• Tested Daily
• 15 Rainfall, 85 from outside SD
• Safety Health come 1st, not taste
• Fluoride YES
• Lead NO
• Is it safe..YES

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References

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• "Smaller categories still saw growth as the
  U.S. liquid refreshment beverage market shrank by
  2.0 in 2008, Beverage Marketing Corporation
  reports", press release from Beverage Marketing
  Corporation. 3/30/09 http//www.beveragemarketing.
  com/?sectionnewsnewsID111
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• Lempert, Phil, Is Your Bottled Water Coming
  From The Faucet? MSNBC.com, July. 21, 2004.
  http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5467759/
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• Processing and Bottling of Bottled Drinking
  Water. Department of Health and Human Services,
  FDA.gov http//www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx
  _03/21cfr129_03.html
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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXfPAjUvvnIc
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?v_3QBZac3MSY
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• Emery, David, Dont Drink Bottled Water Kept in
  Car, about.com, April, 2007 http//urbanlegends.a
  bout.com/od/medical/a/bottled-water.htm
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• BottledWaterBlues.com http//www.bottledwaterblues
  .com/Bottled_Water_Facts.cfm