H2Uh-Oh From Arrowhead to Volvic, Fiji's not the only bottled water with a PR challenge.

H2Uh-Oh
From Arrowhead to Volvic, Fiji's not the only bottled water with a PR challenge.
By Jen Phillips Link to full article below

WET REGRET Water comes from the Las Vegas municipal supply. A test by the Environmental Working Group found it had 200% of the allowable trihalomethane, a carcinogen, and included several chemicals known to cause DNA damage.

Dasani (Coca-Cola)
WET REGRET Coca-Cola's bottling plant near the village of Plachimada in Kerala, India, began pumping groundwater in 2000. When wells dried up and villagers couldn't irrigate their fields, Coke offered a goodwill gesture: heavy-metal-laced sludge from the plant to use as fertilizer. After company ignored years of protests—and two government orders to install wastewater treatment and provide drinking water to villagers—the state ordered Coke plant to close in 2004. (Coke won the right to reopen the next year.)

Arrowhead (Nestlé)
WET REGRET Nestlé is seeking a permit to pipe 65 million gallons a year from a spring in rural Colorado. When critics raised concerns about the effect of climate change on local water supplies, Nestlé said it was "illogical" to base decisions on changes "many years in the future."

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Bottled Water Boom Appears Tapped Out

Bottled Water Boom Appears Tapped Out
Environmental Concerns, Recession Put Crimp in Sales
By Ylan Q. Mui
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 13, 2009 Link to full article below

The recession has finally answered the question that centuries of philosophers could not: The glass is half-empty.

That's because sales of bottled water have fallen for the first time in at least five years, assailed by wrathful environmentalists and budget-conscious consumers, who have discovered that tap water is practically free. Even Nestle, the country's largest seller of bottled water, is beginning to feel a bit parched. On Wednesday, it reported that profits for the first half of the year dropped 2.7 percent, its first decline in six years.

The biggest loser? Water.

To read the full article below: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/12/AR2009081203074.html

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