{"id":2170,"date":"2011-01-05T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filtersfast.com\/blog\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2014-02-20T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:57:22","slug":"bottled-water-scorecard-filtered-tap-water-over-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.filtersfast.com\/blog\/bottled-water-scorecard-filtered-tap-water-over-bottled-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Water Scorecard: Filtered Tap Water Over Bottled Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/breakingnews.ewg.org\/bottled-water-2011-home\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"EWG Bottled Water Scorecard\" alt=\"EWG Bottled Water Scorecard\" src=\"http:\/\/static.ewg.org\/reports\/2010\/bottledwater2010\/img\/waterqual_test.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a>The Environmental Working Group recently published a\u00a0<a title=\"2011 Bottled Water Scorecard\" href=\"http:\/\/breakingnews.ewg.org\/bottled-water-2011-search?page_id=&amp;query=\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Bottled Water Scorecard<\/a> that surveys 173 bottled water brands in an effort to find the source of the water, as well as if any further water purification is done.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few surprising facts from the bottled water scorecard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18 percent of bottled water brands do not reveal their source.<\/li>\n<li>32 percent of bottled water brands surveyed do not provide info on water treatment.<\/li>\n<li>Less than 1\/4 of brands surveyed comply with California&#8217;s labeling law.<\/li>\n<li>Aquafina and Dasani received a D; Fiji and Evian received a C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Want to see how your favorite brand of bottled water stacks up? The EWG has a long, comprehensive list of bottled water brands on its <a title=\"bottled water scorecard\" href=\"http:\/\/breakingnews.ewg.org\/bottled-water-2011-search?page_id=&amp;query=\" target=\"_blank\">bottled water scorecard<\/a>. The brands are judged on their transparency (including source, purification and testing) as well as any advanced treatment. Under these metrics, no brand scored greater than a C overall.\u00a0Filtered tap water received an A, which was the highest score the EWG provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EWG published a similar bottled water scorecard in 2009. For the most part, bottled water brands did not become any more transparent in the year&#8217;s time between the two scorecards. 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