The consumption and sale of bottled water is increasing annually and in the United States some 2500 million US gallons (2100 million UK gallons) were sold in 1994 at a total cost of about $3000 million. In the UK some 785 million litres (170 million UK gallons) were sold in 1995 at an estimated cost of $500 million to the consumer. The increase appears to be at the rate of more than 10% per annum. Bottled waters, whether they are’ still’ or’ sparkling’, have to conform to strict regulations which set the same quality standards as for tap water. No water should contain harmful bacteria and regulations in the UK give maximum bacteria levels for the first 12 h after bottling. After this, any increase should not be greater than what would normally be expected.
The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) rules are more detailed in that they define explicitly the various terminology used by the manufacturers and state rules for practice and operational, source and product monitoring....
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Herschy, R.W. (1998). Bottled water. In: Hydrology and Lakes. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4513-1_32
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