Dasani Water -- Part of Cocoa Cola?

The other day, someone was telling me that there was a project done in a science fair to see which bottled water lasted longest...and Dasani won. But are they made by Coke? They sell it in the Coke machines at school, I think...

 

Lasted longest? Why would bottled water expire?

Anyway, yes Dasani is made by Coca Cola.

Funny thing is that, at least in the UK, Dasani is just tap water.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3523303.stm

 

Most bottled "mineral" waters are just filtered tap water.

And on a humorous note, EVIAN is NAIVE spelled backwards.

 

Yeah, the bottled water I have, which i think is Dannon, The bottles start stinking after a week. The water's still fine though, just the bottles stink. But this is spring water, not 'purified' water. I don't know that that make any difference though.

 

I work for Dasani, and yeah, it's owned by Coke.

I'm the guy who fills all the bottles from my backyard garden hose before they are shipped out.

 

Research a little further and find who owns Coke....

 

Save us the trouble and just tell us.

 

Did you guys know that the bottled water industry is not regulated by any federal organizations.... even the FDA... meaning anyone can bottle water and sell it.... also over 33% of all bottled water is contaminated.... you're safer drinking your tap water if you ask me...

 

Coke-a-cola is owned by the CIA. Along with ATT and many other "front-line" operations.

There is a group of articles written entitled "Coka cola, cia and the courts"...you might find interesting.

 

haha yeah, i heard the got fined, i've never actually seen it for sale tho

 

did not know that jokerman, not surprised though...........

george carlin did a skit once, asked every city on his tour, some 50 different cities, 'hows the water here?' not one positive repsonse, lol, i think that really says something though.......

 

Dasani has a lot of sodium in it

 

Not where I live. I live in a semi rural area, where everyone has their own private (non filtered, non processed) well, as well as a septic tank. Often bacteria seeps into our wells and makes people here VERY sick (I got E Coli at least once when we were dumb enough to drink our water) and a family across the street was dumb enough to make infant formula from our tap water, and her son almost died.

Even if bottled water is somene else's tap water, it can't be as bad as ours. I wouldn't drink the sludge that comes out of our tap for anything.

Not everyone is priveleged enough to live in an area where their tap water is safe. Condider yourself lucky if you do.

 

My tap water is good so really, I only get bottled water for the bottles. When one bottle gets beat up beyond use, I buy a new one. The water actually tastes good too. I normally can't taste the difference between water but I know certain places (like my Grandmother's house in NH which is on well water) I think tastes gross.

I don't think we ever get any of the "brand name" waters or anything, just the basic Kroger stuff. As I see it, as long as it's clean, water is water no matter where you get it from.

 

I usually just buy a bottle for the bottle, too...or just buy Nalgene bottle...either way I go, I fill them with filtiered water from the refrigerator. I gotta buy a new Nalgene though...I lost mine.

 

We have nasty horrible water here as well this one guy was telling us u can get a pan of our water and boil it all day and nite and eventually it would be gone or u would have to through it out because it still wasnt any good. Also you have no idea what your neighbors flushes down there toilets its all recycled water pretty much.

 

actually they put minimal amounts of Salt in Dasani, which creates more thirst so you drink more of it... thats capitalism folks.

 

Dasani were stopped from taking grip of the the huge market for water within europe and the ever growing market in the Uk.. Who stoppped them ? the french and other bottled water companys.. Playing on the percieved bad reputation (rightly or wrongly) coca cola have. A 'health risk' was prety perfect. it sells friggin well in America. One dayit will come back to our shores i am sure..to much for those people down at coke to ignore.

Plus in the Uk and i suppose europe, we have amore elitist opinion of what we put down our throats.. The established water distributors have marketed there product on such prejudices.