I am not
completely against bottled water – it serves a purpose at times. But bottled
water isn’t nearly as good for you as their big marketing firms would have you
believe. I have talked about the environmental impact water bottles have here,
but today we are going to talk about the pH levels of 20 different brands of
bottled water.
Bottled Water
Of the
20 brands, a whopping 13 of them were too acidic for healthy, every day
consumption. Here’s how they broke down:
Wal-Mart distilled water – 5
Wal-Mart drinking water – 4.5
Wal-Mart
spring water – 7
Gerber Pure water – 6.5
Nestle Pure Life – 6.5
Ice Mountain – 6
Smart Water – 6
Aquafina – 5
Evian
– 7
Essentia
– 9
Function Water – 6.5
Super
Chill 7.5
Absopure
– 7.5
Fiji – 7
Evamore
– 8
Penta – 4
Poland Spring Water – 5.8
Dasani – 4.5
Voss – 6
Eternal
– 7
Here is the video I made showing
the testing each of these brands of water.
Reasons
I Avoid Bottled Water
1.
The
petroleum-based bottles have been shown to leach chemicals into the water.
2.
So
few bottles of water are recycled and billions end up in the landfill annually.
3. It
has been estimated that it takes the equivalent of 17 million barrels of oil to
manufacture the bottles used annually, which doesn’t include transportation to
distribute the bottles. It also takes 3 times the water than it does for each
bottle. So a 20 ounce bottle of water requires 60 ounces of water to produce,
which includes the water it takes to fill the bottle.
I highly
recommend getting an electric water ionizer or minimally the WellBlue water
pitcher. Both will give you alkaline water that is very healthy for you and
your family.
