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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: 2) by frojack on Sunday August 20 2017, @06:58AM
Cheap bottled water is almost always reverse osmosis water. Says so on the label in most cases.
So naturally all the crap in your city supply is filtered out. It's as good as any other bottled water.
Nobody bottels spring water. The sheer volume of botted water is a dead give away.
As for taste and mouth feel, those should be your Clue that the published reports of water contaminants are likely bogus. Pretty sure they don't test for anything that isn't specifically required to be absent. Hense the taste, smell, and mouth feel (which is mostly salts).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.