A New York Times article was published yesterday in a series they are running called "Toxic Waters." As anti-bottled water groups continue to make claims about tap water being "just as good" as bottled water, the unintended consequence for them is the re-examination of true quality of tap water. It is likely the continuing education of the American consumer on the quality of tap water will help the bottled water in the long run.

You can read Charles Duhigg's article here on the New York Times site.

This from a newspaper that has given a lot of ink to the anti-bottled water crowd! Even more interesting, tomorrow the Natural Resources Defense Council is going after the EPA for lax regulation of atrazine in tap water. This is a long article but a good read. It points out what bottled water people have been saying for a long time: the spikes allowed in contaminants in tap water are a major difference in quality regulations since bottled water has zero tolerance for spikes. In other words, averaging your test results to show compliance is not allowed for bottled water the way it is for tap water.

Read the entire article by Charles Duhigg - Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass.