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Nestle is being sued over the origins of Poland Spring Water:
Nestle's marketing and sales of Poland Spring water has been "a colossal fraud perpetrated against American consumers," 11 people claim in a federal class action. Filing their suit Tuesday in Connecticut, where Nestle is based, the lead plaintiffs are from the Nutmeg State as well as New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. They say they would not have paid a premium for the water had they known it did not actually come from eight purported natural springs in Maine.
Rather than being "100% Natural Spring Water," the "products all contain ordinary groundwater that defendant collects from wells it drilled in saturated plains or valleys where the water table is within a few feet of the earth's surface," lead plaintiff Mark J. Patane says in the complaint. "The vast bulk of that groundwater is collected from Maine's most populous counties in southwestern Maine, only a short distance from the New Hampshire border," the complaint continues.
As required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, all bottled spring water must be collected either at the source of a naturally occurring spring or from a well that draws from a natural spring. "In hydro-geological parlance, all such well water must be 'hydraulically connected' to a genuine spring," the complaint states. But the class says that's not the case for defendant Nestle Waters North America's eight sites in Maine.
People will pay for water in a bottle?!
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @08:26PM (10 children)
Social water. You and your hen pals drink the same brand of water to signal membership in your social clique. And let us admit only women drink bottled water.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @08:52PM (9 children)
Who might drink bottled water? People that don't have a source of water. People in an area that is under temporary water quality advisory. People that need portable and potable water. You're not thinking straight. Maybe you're dehydrated and need a bottle of water.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @09:04PM
You've never heard of beer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @09:14PM (3 children)
People who aren't very smart about how they spend their money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @09:22PM (2 children)
Indeed I never buy bottled unless there are valuable nutrients dissolved in the water. The water itself is not worth buying.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:12PM (1 child)
I can't always carry enough water for longer bicycling trips, and a lot of the time when I do I won't have an opportunity to brush my teeth until I get back. Drinking bottled water instead of pop, or high-sugar drinks like gatorade is sometimes the better solution. If I need electrolytes, I will often get them in the form of salts in food form, rather than liquid. Given that even the 'thirst quenching' drinks nowadays are full of sugar or excessive acids, most of them are not something you want on long distance trips.
Having said that, I buy them in 2 liter or gallon containers, 40oz if they don't have anything bigger. If you are dealing in 8-20oz bottles at 1.49 a pop, they are pointless. (High oz quantities are usually no more than 2x the cost of the 12oz-20 oz bottles, and any time you are thirsty enough to need a drink you probably need way more than 12oz to make sure you stay hydrated before your next stop.)
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Sunday August 20 2017, @03:19AM
A gallon of water at WalMart is 69 cents. A bottle of water costs from the same price to 5x more for less.
(Score: 3, Funny) by rev_irreverence on Saturday August 19 2017, @09:19PM (2 children)
I only drink pure rain water or distilled water to avoid flouridation. Grain alcohol is good too.
(Score: 4, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 19 2017, @10:00PM
It preserves Our Purity of Essence
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(Score: 2, Informative) by nobodyknowsimageek on Sunday August 20 2017, @07:30AM
Do NOT drink distilled water. It can cause injury, and if you drink nothing but distilled water, can actually kill you. This is because pure water will leach out salts from your body and can cause cellular damage.
Reference: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/2250/death-because-of-distilled-water-consumption [stackexchange.com]
(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:51PM
On the few occasions we've had an advisory about tap water, we bought 1 gallon containers of distilled water for $0.80, not "brand name" water for $2.00/liter