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: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 20 2017, @02:32AM (4 children)
Who even drinks straight tap water? Use a water filter. It'll remove some lead and a bunch of other bullshit. And it definitely tastes different.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @02:34AM
Those filters can breed germs. I drink straight from the tap. My city publishes water quality data.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 20 2017, @02:59AM
Who drinks tap water? The People who ran out of bottled water and are too drunk and thirsty to drive or hoof it down to the store to get more.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @11:52AM (1 child)
People who live in real first-world countries.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday August 21 2017, @06:41PM
Or just places with reasonably modern plumbing outside of major cities. Even here in the US, most places I've lived have had tap water pure enough that you can superheat it. Makes brewing tea in the microwave so much more fun -- put it on for five or ten minutes, then toss the sugar in...carefully and from a distance, because half that water is going to boil off the instant that sugar hits and you don't want to be too close ;)
(I only mention that as a good "test" because I've heard numerous people claim that you can only do that with distilled water. Distilled water or rural US tap water apparently.)