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Title: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: BayGBM on July 27, 2007, 06:25:20 AM
PepsiCo to disclose water supplier: tap
The labels on its Aquafina bottles will state that the content is from a public source.
From Reuters

July 27, 2007

NEW YORK — PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, the world's No. 2 beverage company will include the words "public water source" on Aquafina labels.

"If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do," said Michelle Naughton, a Pepsi-Cola North America spokeswoman.

Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola Co.'s Dasani are both made from purified water from public reservoirs, as opposed to Groupe Danone's Evian or Nestle's Poland Spring, so-called spring waters shipped from specific locations that the firms say have notably clean water.

Coca-Cola said it would start posting online information about the quality-control testing it performs on Dasani by the end of summer or early fall.

"Concerns about the bottled-water industry, and increasing corporate control of water, are growing across the country," said Gigi Kellett, director of the "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign, which encourages people to drink tap water.

San Francisco's mayor banned city employees from using city funds to buy bottled water when tap water was available. Ann Arbor, Mich., passed a resolution banning commercially bottled water at city events.

Critics charge that the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world's population is without access to clean water.

But industry observers said such opposition was unlikely to drain U.S. sales of bottled water, which reached 2.6 billion cases in 2006, according to Beverage Digest. The industry newsletter estimated that U.S. consumers spent about $15 billion on bottled water last year.

"Consumers have an affection for bottled water. It's not an issue of taste or health, it's about convenience," the newsletter's publisher, John Sicher, said.

Dave Kolpak, a portfolio manager at Victory Capital Management, said the environmental objections would have little effect on the bottom line for Pepsi or Coke, although he acknowledged that it could slow the market's growth.

"Pepsi and Coke do not make a lot of profit" on bottled water, Kolpak said.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: powerpack on July 27, 2007, 06:28:55 AM
LOL  ;D
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: thewickedtruth on July 27, 2007, 06:41:44 AM
People will still buy it. It's a convenience thing.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Rimbaud on July 27, 2007, 06:44:10 AM
I'm so shocked. I thought it came from a magical mountain spring.  ::)
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: MidniteRambo on July 27, 2007, 06:53:47 AM
I think it is wrong to bash this product.  I am looking at a bottle right now.  The label reads: "AQUAFINA IS A SMART CHOICE BECAUSE EVERY SERVING IS CALORIE FREE AND SODIUM FREE."

As opposed to other bottled waters loaded with calories and salt! (LOL)
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Princess L on July 27, 2007, 10:40:11 AM
Coke's water is the same thing - tap  ::)  I think it's Dasani

Several years ago, one of my customers was a Pepsi bottling plant where they made all the sodas and waters.  Very interesting process.  They did seem to go through a very sterile reverse osmosis process.  It tastes good; certainly better than chlorinated city water.  I have well water, which is kinda "irony" tasting but I run it thru a filtering system and it tastes great!

Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Rimbaud on July 27, 2007, 11:11:30 AM
Coke's water is the same thing - tap  ::)  I think it's Dasani


You are correct.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: copacetic on July 28, 2007, 02:38:54 AM

I drink tap water. Think about the oil used in the production of that bottle and the oil used to transport the water to you. Tap water is pumped to you through pipes which uses far less energy and is generally safer or as safe as bottled water.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/water121003.cfm
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: chris_mason on July 28, 2007, 04:27:50 AM
It is tap water, but they put it through a process which differentiates it from running the water right from your sink.

Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Beener on July 28, 2007, 06:33:17 AM
I've alwasy been a proud supporter of tap water, I never even drank those damn Britta things. 

See the only benefit to bottled water is a bottle, so instead I spend my money on some 750 ml bottles of diet pepsi and then when im done i just keep refilling with water. If I'm gonna be paying for a drink, it sure as hell wont be water.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Doug_Steele on July 28, 2007, 04:28:47 PM
i knew it, it tasted like garbage...go FIJI WATER
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Al-Gebra on July 28, 2007, 04:39:57 PM
Coke's water is the same thing - tap  ::)  I think it's Dasani




no, it's not.  it's spring water.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Princess L on July 28, 2007, 07:54:38 PM
no, it's not.  it's spring water.

I beg to differ

The corporate-accountability group is also pressing for similar concessions from The Coca-Cola, which owns the Dasani water brand, and Nestlé Waters North America, seller of Nestlé Pure Life purified drinking water, which gets some of its water from municipal sources.
Dasani's Web site says its water comes from local water supplies, is filtered using reverse osmosis and is enhanced with minerals.
"We don't believe that consumers are confused about the source of Dasani water," said Coca-Cola spokeswoman Diana Garza Ciarlante. "The label clearly states that it is purified water."

Saturday, July 28, 2007
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003809534_aquafina28.html

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/03/coke.water/
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Al-Gebra on July 28, 2007, 10:07:44 PM
cheating cocksuckers. 
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: TestDummy on July 29, 2007, 04:12:08 AM
I think it is wrong to bash this product.  I am looking at a bottle right now.  The label reads: "AQUAFINA IS A SMART CHOICE BECAUSE EVERY SERVING IS CALORIE FREE AND SODIUM FREE."

As opposed to other bottled waters loaded with calories and salt! (LOL)

some bottled water does have sodium.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: MidniteRambo on July 29, 2007, 08:02:17 AM
some bottled water does have sodium.

OK point taken, I was trying for some humor . . .
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Princess L on July 29, 2007, 08:21:45 AM
Sodium is naturally occurring in some water, just as other minerals.
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Beener on July 29, 2007, 08:27:14 AM
Honestly though.. Where did people THINK this water came from??
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: Bluto on July 31, 2007, 03:27:18 PM
maybe it's toilet water
Title: Re: PepsiCo. concedes Aquafina is tap water
Post by: SamoanIrishman on August 01, 2007, 10:35:04 AM
Jesus...I remember drinking from the water hose as a kid...I'm just fine 8)