Here's what's in your bottled water (Marketplace)

It’s not limited to just water, sorry folks but it’s literally in every single thing you buy whether you eat it or not.

If you stop buying, they will stop trying to sell it. It's always up to the people.

People don’t understand that there is plastic in everything we consume

I honestly was expecting more from this video. I was hoping for some chemical testing; bottled water vs tap. I feel like this video is talking more about what we are doing to the environment then our own bodies.

You should also test tap water as well in those major cities.

Testing just for plastic? What about heavy metals, toxic chemicals, hormones, microbes or parasites?

Firstly, the bottle is shaped by heating the water very hot and using high pressure to use the drinking water to form the bottle itself. This, no doubt, releases plastic residue into the drinking water.

In the 80’s, bottled water was something new. I visited a soft drink bottling plant in PA that was converting to bottling water. They said it was going to be a big thing. I was skeptical. They told me that all the cost was in the packaging (the bottle), marketing, and shipping/handling. The product inside came from regular water from the tap. The tap water came from wells and could legally be called spring water. It was essentially free. So the profit margins were very high.

The bottling companies should be funding the clean up effort

"EVIAN" is simply "naive" spelled backwards.

This is less about bottled water than it is about water itself. Microplastics are everywhere and part of the reason is all of the plastic bottles we use for water but even without bottled water we would have microplastics everywhere, including our water. There is a difference between spring water and filtered or "purified (tap)" water. When I open the kitchen tap I can smell a stronger bleach odor than the water in the swimming pool when the pool chemicals are at the right levels. I tested kitchen tap water with the swimming pool water test kit & the total chlorine content was at the perfect level for the pool. The free chlorine content was also at the perfect level for the pool. The PH and the alkalinity were both close to the right amount for swimming pool water.

As someone who has always drank tap or fridge-filtered water only, I’m always shocked by how plasticy bottled water tastes. I guess the bottled water regulars don’t even notice it, but I sure do!

I remember drinking water out of the water hose and I grew up fine.This was in the 60s.

Evian is naive spelled backwards.

I highly recommend getting a counter top water distiller. I've been very happy with mine, and no plastic, heavy cases of water to haul around.

As a medical student, I never ever drink any drinks from plastic bottles, only water from kitchen or fountain. Just carry water bottle with me everywhere. I started doing this when I studied biochemistry in the 2nd year of medical school.

Would have been nice to have domestic tap water tested from each location as well.

buy a water filter

Thank you Market Place for telling the truth. ~ from U.S.A.

A whole house filter system got rid of the need for bottled water. As a bonus we also get to bathe and do our washing and cleaning with pure water. Yes, you have to change filters and UV bulbs and it costs couple grand to setup, but we prefer it.