Comments on: Aquafina: Unearths Its Source http://www.mouseprint.org/2007/07/30/aquafina-unearths-its-source/ Exposing the strings and catches in advertising fine print. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:41:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ray http://www.mouseprint.org/2007/07/30/aquafina-unearths-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-109717 Ray Fri, 02 May 2008 18:52:13 +0000 http://www.mouseprint.org/?p=272#comment-109717 It's sad we can't get clean, safe tap water to drink. I filter my water at home. I don't have a reverse osmosis unit but it does a decent job. Reverse osmosis is the best way to go. It takes out virtually eveything. Look (Google)it up and see for yourselves. They just started putting CLoramines in my tap water so I can't fill my fish tank up with it. Now I use filtered water for it. It’s sad we can’t get clean, safe tap water to drink. I filter my water at home. I don’t have a reverse
osmosis unit but it does a decent job. Reverse osmosis is the best way to go. It takes out virtually
eveything. Look (Google)it up and see for yourselves. They just started putting CLoramines in my tap water so I can’t fill my fish tank up with it. Now I use filtered water for it.

]]> By: Steve Carmer http://www.mouseprint.org/2007/07/30/aquafina-unearths-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-55704 Steve Carmer Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:54:17 +0000 http://www.mouseprint.org/?p=272#comment-55704 everyone is acting like Aquafina got caught lying and everyone that drinks it has been duped. I have drinken Aquafina for years, and like MOST people who drink it, never had ANY illusions as to it's source. Acting like Aquafina IS tap water because it's FROM tap water is like saying tap water IS toilet water because it's FROM toilet water. Both show a complete ignorance of water purification processes, one making tap water from toilet water and one making purified drinking water from tap water. Tap water is not put through a reverse osmosis process like Aquafina; if it were, then Aquafina would be tap water, but it's not and you have to pay a cost for your water to be purified beyond the standard minimums regulated by the government (and to remove the chemicals they dumped in to make it safe enough to drink to begin with). This was a huge non-news event. Everyone that was buying Aquafina will keep on buying Aquafina, so I guess the only ones who care are the ones drinking the toilet water. everyone is acting like Aquafina got caught lying and everyone that drinks it has been duped. I have drinken Aquafina for years, and like MOST people who drink it, never had ANY illusions as to it’s source. Acting like Aquafina IS tap water because it’s FROM tap water is like saying tap water IS toilet water because it’s FROM toilet water. Both show a complete ignorance of water purification processes, one making tap water from toilet water and one making purified drinking water from tap water. Tap water is not put through a reverse osmosis process like Aquafina; if it were, then Aquafina would be tap water, but it’s not and you have to pay a cost for your water to be purified beyond the standard minimums regulated by the government (and to remove the chemicals they dumped in to make it safe enough to drink to begin with). This was a huge non-news event. Everyone that was buying Aquafina will keep on buying Aquafina, so I guess the only ones who care are the ones drinking the toilet water.

]]> By: Jeff Wells http://www.mouseprint.org/2007/07/30/aquafina-unearths-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-46420 Jeff Wells Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:42:29 +0000 http://www.mouseprint.org/?p=272#comment-46420 Nashville is so proud of it's water that it's public education efforts include distribution of empty 16oz. bottles labeled "Pure Nashville," subtitled "Cool Clean Refreshing" It wasn't so cool, and, therefore, not so refreshing during our recent record heat wave and drought. But, the label does contain an instruction to "Fill with tap water and chill." "Flouride Added" is shown in the fine print. Nashville is so proud of it’s water that it’s public education efforts include distribution of empty 16oz. bottles labeled “Pure Nashville,” subtitled “Cool Clean Refreshing” It wasn’t so cool, and, therefore, not so refreshing during our recent record heat wave and drought. But, the label does contain an instruction to “Fill with tap water and chill.”
“Flouride Added” is shown in the fine print.

]]> By: John Pursell http://www.mouseprint.org/2007/07/30/aquafina-unearths-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-45433 John Pursell Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:41:25 +0000 http://www.mouseprint.org/?p=272#comment-45433 Not every one is trying to hide the source of their bottled water. One of our local bottled water companies admits on the label that the spring water is from "a comunity water source", i.e. tap water. That statement is in fine print. Our local river, the Rogue, originates from a spring in the Cascade Mountains, so technically the river, from which the city draws its water, is "spring water". The spring just happens to be about 60 miles away. Not every one is trying to hide the source of their bottled water. One of our local bottled water companies admits on the label that the spring water is from “a comunity water source”, i.e. tap water. That statement is in fine print. Our local river, the Rogue, originates from a spring in the Cascade Mountains, so technically the river, from which the city draws its water, is “spring water”. The spring just happens to be about 60 miles away.

]]> By: Mike Cunningham http://www.mouseprint.org/2007/07/30/aquafina-unearths-its-source/comment-page-1/#comment-42314 Mike Cunningham Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:31:57 +0000 http://www.mouseprint.org/?p=272#comment-42314 Coca-Cola tried to market their Dasani rubbish in the U.K. but fell at the first fence when their super-clean plant in Sidcup Kent fell foul of the old saying, "when in a hole, stop digging!" Coke apparently used purification and taste-enhancement chemistry to transform water into their expensive bottled water - in the process producing bromates, which are carcinogenic and forced the company to recall the water. They kept saying there was nothing wrong with the water, but tragedy struck when it was revealed that the source of their water was, in fact, straight from the tap! Coca-Cola tried to market their Dasani rubbish in the U.K. but fell at the first fence when their super-clean plant in Sidcup Kent fell foul of the old saying, “when in a hole, stop digging!”

Coke apparently used purification and taste-enhancement chemistry to transform water into their expensive bottled water – in the process producing bromates, which are carcinogenic and forced the company to recall the water.

They kept saying there was nothing wrong with the water, but tragedy struck when it was revealed that the source of their water was, in fact, straight from the tap!

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