What is being done to address the difference between bottled water and municipal water requirements?
In both Canada and the United States, there have been legislative initiatives to bring the requirements for bottled water into line with those for municipal drinking water in order to better guarantee consumers the safety of all drinking water. In Ontario a Private Member’s Bill was introduced that would regulate bottled water. This Bill was given second reading on October 17, 2002 with all party support, although it was not passed into law. The Bill was called an Act to Amend the Ontario Water Resources Act . The bill would give the province the authority to: • prescribe standards for chemical and radiological contaminants for bottled water; • forbid selling bottled water unless it meets provincial standards; and • require an analysis of the groundwater sources of bottled water and the conditions resulting from natural run-off through aquifers. Similarly, in September 2003 a bill was introduced in California , the leading state in bottled water consumption. The proposed bill also addr
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