Internet sale of NY water

[Hllywd76]

I just heard this today. Someone is bottling New York City water and selling it on the internet.
What has anyone heard of this?
How will it effect the water source and is this legal?
More water that is being taken from the fish without any payback.
Check out the website. Tap'dNY - Purified New York City tap water

Hllywd

 

[onemorecast]

Check out the graphics they use to advertise it. "Drink local", "Not from the top of some far off mountain" - yeah, okay. Do they somehow think their drinking water comes from the East river?

 

[D'ANGLER]

Check out Penn & Teller under the Blogs Menu. The truth be told...

 

[CTobias]

There is nothing regulating bottled water. It is not regulated by the FDA because it is not considered food. A lot of bottled water is just filtered tap water. Believe it or not, tap water is cleaner and more regulated than bottled water.

 

[Corndog]

Hey, why is there a brown trout fry in my NYC bottled water?

Cdog

 

[eddavidson9]

There is nothing regulating bottled water. It is not regulated by the FDA because it is not considered food. A lot of bottled water is just filtered tap water. Believe it or not, tap water is cleaner and more regulated than bottled water.

Water (bottled and public and private distribution) is regulated by DOH.

Bottled Water Frequently-Asked Questions

To say tap water is more regulated than bottled is misleading. However, there may be instances where publicly supplied water is "cleaner" than some bottled water brands.

But, we have plenty of other reasons to generally avoid bottled, so I guess the point is moot.

 

[gadfly]

Here's a good reason to avoid bottled water. This is shocking.

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean

 

[Wbranch]

There is a thread about this at catskillflies.com I think there is a spring on the upper Willowemoc a couple of landowners want to tap and bottle.

 

[specialk690]

I'll come back to this one...I was in Brooklyn last Saturday and took some interesting pictures of bottled NYC water...It's something that has been happening, not with any notable success, for a long time.

 

[Catskill]

Look at the positive side of things to come. If people drink enough of this stuff, they'll have to start releasing more water. :rofl:

 

[DoubleHaul]

I just checked out the website.
Come On - this is stupid.
Water peddlers dressed up like the ghost buster hunting down consumers to refill their water bottles? Marketing- Chique fad. Stupid! What was it that PT Barnem said?

 

[Future Fanatic]

What was it that PT Barnem said?

"Watch that you don't step in the elephant poo"?