Aquafina and Dasani is actually tap water with a fancy name

Next time you grab a bottle of Aquafina water, created by PepsiCo, the ingredient label will read "Public Water Source" aka tap water. Dasani made by Coca-Cola which is also made from tap water will start posting online information about their quality control.

Apparently there is a wave of campaigns going on to get more people to be okay with drinking tap water because corporations are controlling and profiting too much from of our water intake. If you think about it, if Pepsi and Coca-Cola are really just putting tap water in a pretty bottle, then why are we paying them money for something you can get in your own sink. The global bottled water market is apparently $100 billion. That is a ginormous amount of money for water, but both Pepsi and Coke claim that they don't make much profit from bottled water.

"Think Outside the Bottle" is challenging corporate control of water, and in major US cities:

"San Francisco's mayor banned city employees from using city funds to buy bottled water when tap water is available. Ann Arbor, Michigan passed a resolution banning commercially bottled water at city events and Salt Lake City, Utah asked department heads to eliminate bottled water."

I'm all for democratizing water but is tap water really healthy for us? Is "tap water is bad for you" just a myth or reality? I personally never drink from the tap, and always drink bottled "Spring" water. If you've been drinking Aquafina and Dasani for awhile now, you've simply been drinking from the tap. I kinda feel a cringe coming on.

[via Reuters via Yahoo News]