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[edit] NPOV
Aquafina touts their water is "Pure" because of their "state-of-the-art" HydRO-7 purification system used to remove substances that "most other" bottled waters leave in.
The word I want to point out is "touts", because that can have negative connotations. Definition #4 from Merriam-Webster Online: "to make much of". (An example I found was in a certain forum, saying something like "The publishing company was touting their prize as a child prodigy.") I don't want to nitpick but it seems condescending towards Aquafina. If anyone agrees, what would be a good replacement? --Passerby Cat talk cat 18:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think that whole paragraph is questionable. The use of parts of Pepsi's description in quotes makes it seems as if there's a reason to doubt it. Is there? We should either reword this entirely or use Pepsi's complete quote. -- Steven Fisher 19:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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- That's true - I think I have an Aquafina bottle around the house somewhere, and they usually say stuff about their purification system on the label. I'll go find it and replace it. There's no reason to doubt that they filter it. I'll replace the paragraph with the statement on the label for now. --Passerby Cat talk cat 21:11, 12 July 2006 (UTC) Edit: If I copied it word-for-word, it would read like an advertisement. I'll reword it.
[edit] The site
Most of the citations come from the site, but I desperately need a text version of it so someone seeking references could click on them and not search around or wait for the Flash to load. If anyone knows where there is a (official) text-only version of aquafina.com, please come forward! --Passerby Cat talk cat 21:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Djibouti
Recently (Sep 30 2006) the Camp Le Monier supply directorate removed all Aquafina water from the base water coolers due to reported off taste, and replaced it with other brands. Water brands rotate periodically on the base and when Aquafina was last in the coolers in late August taste was again an issue; remaining stocks of the water are to be discarded (per a base-wide email on 30 Sep). Probably not worth reporting in the article but it seems interesting that the only American brand of bottled water available on an American military base has been removed from circulation. The water in question was from the Indian branch of Pepsico, so we're all speculating it has pesticides in it although Camp supply personnel say otherwise. 215.65.49.70 05:20, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tap water.
There should be a section about the recent news that Aquafina actually bottles tap water. http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/07/27/aquafina.html 70.118.90.38 00:05, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
- It has been added about a dozen times in various forms. Most of the adds have been reverted because of the redundancy. People seem eager to add the info without reading the article first. And it's not accurate to simply say "tap water." It may come from a tap, but they do stuff to purify it before selling it. Ward3001 00:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
All bottled water actually does either come from the tap or from the spring. I don't think there's any more benefit to drinking bottled water over tap water. The purifications systems don't always catch everything, and you can install the same system inside a home well. Right? Also, is there a section about Aquafina having the green Smart Choice label? On the back, it says, "Aquafina is a smart choice because every serving is calorie free and sodium free. Visit www.smartstop.com" Complex-Algorithm 23:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
This website claims that every bottle now comes with the label PWS. Can anyone verify that? Is the source reliable? Kushal 16:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
