The product was found to consist mainly of vegetable oil. The Food and Drug Act enables the Government of Canada to protect the consumers and to ensure fairness to all those who participate in the marketplace. According to this story, a shrinking majority of Americans still drinks its water from taps at a cost that rarely exceeds a penny a gallon. The other segment of the population demands bottled water, at prices often twice as high as gasoline. Just why Americans are 10 times more likely to drink bottled water today than they were a generation ago is something of a mystery.
Most water has no discernible taste.
It's abundant, and available free. Death by tap water is about as likely as death by lightning. Drinkers consider bottled water safer than tap water, even though public health experts say U.S. tap water is almost always safe. Consumers say they are environmentally conscious, but plastic bottles are a landfill bane in communities where they are not recycled. Plastic bottles cost 10 cents or more to produce, making them, like beer cans, far more expensive than their contents.