you're plastic cold shiny hard plastic bottled water can be trendy handy convenient and sometimes
a necessity but just wait till you hear about these 10 dark secrets you didn't know about
bottled water no no no you cannot joke about that expiration dates best before this date after this
date not the best generally expiration dates are a good thing you want to know when the b for chicken
in your fridge expires because eating bad meat can make you very sick also there are food items
that might not show their age as well as others so having a sense of when they go bad can also help
avoid any unfortunate stomachaches or more serious problems but what about water well if the bottled
water companies are to be believed water expires in two years or less i can't imagine why brands
such as fiji aquafina and poland springs all sport two-year expiration dates from the date they were
bottled while dasani gives consumers one year from the bottling date before expiration but then there
are the u.s department of homeland security and the red cross who urge people to replace their
stockpiles of bottled water every six months so who's right well the answer is probably none of
them there doesn't appear to be any evidence that drinking expired water has any negative health
effects at all and in fact the food and drug administration has said that bottled water has an
indefinite shelf life so it would appear that expiration dates are just another way for the
bottled water companies to get you to buy more water let's let's get you up come here have some
smart water what did they do it takes water to make water humans have created over 8 billion
tons of plastic this is one of those things you probably haven't even thought about but once you
hear it not thinking about it will be hard it also sounds like one of those random facts that the kid
from jerry maguire would have told tom cruise along with the fact that the human head weighs 8
pounds do you know the human head weighs 8 pounds although the accuracy of that one is debatable so
the deal here is that it actually takes more water to make a bottle of water than it does to fill
said bottle it's called a water footprint and it's important because wasting water is not
planet friendly and wasting water just to make a bottle for the water seems even more ridiculous
according to the bottled water companies it takes 1.39 liters of water to make a bottle for
the water but according to some that isn't even half the footprint that needs to be considered
because there is a much more to the process of getting that bottle of water onto store
shelves that 1.39 liters doesn't take into account the fresh water used in creating the
packaging for example some studies and watch groups suggest that when taking the entire
process into account the actual number is closer to three liters of water used that's a big water
footprint to make something that most of us can get cleanly safely and for free from our taps and
seems rather hard to justify now let's take a moment to think about how much plastic that is
it doesn't actually taste better that's good people give a lot of reasons why they still drink
bottled water and one of the most popular answers to that question is that it just tastes better
than tap water but does it really well according to blind taste tests it doesn't in fact in these
blind taste tests more than half the people couldn't tell the difference between the bottled
and the tap water now sure there are exceptions and the age and quality of your pipes can affect
the minerals found in your tap water and as such the taste and we've all been to cities where the
water really does taste awful you probably like really cause i literally just said the same thing
but many of us have also tried some pretty nasty tasting bottled water as well the point is that
all things being equal in general standard tap water and standard bottled water pretty much taste
the same to most people yet another reason to stop buying bottled water and maybe invest in a water
filter of some sort instead that's a lot of information to get in 30 seconds fiji water fiji
water is a gift from nature to us if you ask most people what the best bottled water is they would
probably say fiji water those rectangle bottles with the flower logo and the clean reputation have
become america's leading imported bottled water but here is what you probably didn't know about it
fiji water actually does come from fiji in fact the company that imports it has a 99-year lease
and almost exclusive access to an aquifer on the island from which they get the water
what this means is that we can buy this water in bottles at the store but the people of fiji can't
access it so while we are quenching our thirst the people on the island from which the water is
taken are dealing with droughts crumbling pipes and other issues that could be helped with access
to the aquifer and maybe even more shocking is the fact that fiji water isn't as perfectly clean
as they would have you believe the cleveland water department did some tests on this classiest
of bottled water and the results are not going to leave the company bragging the results of
the cwd tests found that the fiji water contained more arsenic and other contaminants than regular
cleveland tap water but we are pretty sure that a bottle with a picture of the cleveland skyline
probably still wouldn't sell as well as the one with the flower and the ocean yes it's real
look out for mold this is mold we're all pretty good at spotting mold on bread and cheese and
even various fruits that have been sitting in our fridge for a little too long but did you
know that bottled water can have mold as well not only does this sound kind of gross but while it's
generally easy to spot the stuff on our food and throw it out before we take a bite when it comes
to bottled water it's not so easy but that doesn't mean it isn't there no no they will cost you your
life elaborate in fact in 2017 the fda released a consumer alert in regards to comforts for babies
purified water with fluoride added warning people that the water had been recalled because of mold
even the kroger supermarket chain tested the water after they had complaints from a bunch of
customers their tests found the water to contain talaramyces penicillium which is a mold that can
cause allergic reactions and fever symptoms if it's touched or inhaled choose things you do when
you drink it of course the study recommended more frequent filter changes in the plans to
counteract this warm month issue but who knows if those recommendations were taken into account
dirty little liar i'm sorry i can explain air pollution hey friends do you like what we see here
air pollution so while bottled water causes many environmental problems you probably didn't think
that air pollution was one of them well it is so here's the deal the phthalates that
are added to the plastics leave traces which can be found in the water in those bottles
now while it is said that there isn't enough in the water to be a problem for consumers
that doesn't take into account the amount that gets into the air we breathe in a process called
off-gassing you know that chemical scent you often smell when you get a new shower curtain
for example that smell is the plastic chemicals off-gassing during the manufacturing process
at these petrochemical plants well when these phthalates off gas into the air people who live
around water bottling plants have reported a number of health issues including respiratory
ones so dasani is not only good for you it's good for the environment too there is no way
that our need to buy a bottle of water from the corner store is worth the toxic pain the process
can cause on other human beings especially those who might not ever drink the stuff
all because they happen to live near a plant making the plastic bottles yes some companies are
now making cardboard cartons for water which does eliminate at least a few of these problems but
not all of them i've made a lot of questionable choices it's often just tap water really good
what is this tap yes it is so what if even after hearing everything we've said so far you still
want to drink bottled water because you think it's so much better than tap water and worth paying the
extra price well according to the numbers the odds are you're actually just drinking tap water anyway
you're just doing it out of a plastic bottle back in 2018 when bottled water companies were making
upwards of 16 billion dollars in the united states alone there was a study done by food and water
watch which detailed the truth 64 of bottled water comes from a municipal tap water source no filter
no filter tap water just think about that number for a second that means that the majority of the
water in bottles sold to consumers is water that would otherwise be free or almost free for those
same consumers water that could have been used by thousands of households per year sorry can
we have four of those and attack water what lots of plastic bottles i don't want to ruin my makeup
it's fine the truth is lots doesn't actually do justice to the number of plastic bottles
being produced and thrown away every day around the world we all know that the number is high
but do you know how high allow us to break it down for you first off there are 1 million
plastic bottles bought every day all over this planet breaking it down even further
that makes for over 40 000 bottles every hour and that number is expected to go up by
20 by the end of 2021 and that means over half a trillion bottles a year so what's
the big deal you ask you recycle the bottles many people do so everything is cool right
wrong i gotta admit i'm getting kind of confused oh my god me too the problem is that most people
don't and even with the ones that do get recycled the number of plastic bottles being bought and
thrown into recycling bins is just too much for recycling efforts to keep up with which means
more and more bottles end up in the oceans and polluting the coastlines which is ironic in a
way the water we are drinking is causing major pollution in the other waters on our planet
recycling is good and important but we also need to slow our roll with all the bottled water and
more importantly the plastic bottles it comes in there are some studies that suggest that by 2050
there could be more plastic bottles in our ocean than fish yeah that's not funny arthur that's
not the kind of humor we do on this show e coli today i will talk to you about ashirikya colai
or e coli when you hear e coli you probably think of food products right well most of us do but as
it turns out you also now have to think about bottled water yes it's true bottled water can
be contaminated with bacteria such as e coli and it isn't just a theory it's a fact and the fact is
that a government report back in 2018 determined that sweet springs valley water had at one point
bottled and distributed water from a source that was found to be contaminated with e coli bacteria
and even worse than that the company didn't do anything about it when they found out
they didn't stop production or do follow-up tests on the source and if you think that was just a
one-off problem think again in 2015 there were 14 different bottled water brands that had to be
recalled when the company that supplied the water to those brands discovered that their spring water
source had tested positive for e coli drinking water is very good for you and we don't want this
to discourage you from drinking it however where you get it from well maybe that should change tap
water with a good filtration system is probably the best option for most people since it doesn't
seem like the bottled water companies care as much about our health as they should i'm jen aniston
and i'm here to talk to you about smart water chemicals and carcinogens it's not healthy if
the thought of mold in your bottle of water freaks you out then what about the idea that your bottled
water could be laced with various chemicals and carcinogens well it's true in a recent study done
back in 2018 the water research journal concluded that satellites are often found in bottled water
satellites are substances that are added to plastics and they can be associated with such
things as an increased risk of cancer the study looked at five different phthalates in bottled
water across 21 different countries and the good news is that they determined that the amounts
present were not a concern to the public health wow just complete cellular decay although if we're
being honest knowing that they are in our bottled water in any amount doesn't feel too reassuring
and what about all those trihalomethanes such as chloroform and bromoform according to a 2008
report these carcinogenic chemicals were found in five brands of bottled water and in levels higher
than the industry itself had deemed acceptable then there was the bromate issue with the deep
rock water company in 2011 an inspector fined the company after discovering twice the legal
limit of the carcinogen in their water the fact that they found it and cited the company is good
however they never followed up or took samples to make sure that the issue was cleared up and
a recall was never issued either why did i do that quench that thirst with another great video
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