Saturday, April 11, 2009

re-work - PSA poster

So I recently have learned the information about bottled water and its problem on community, society, environmental and health issues.

But here, I want to just focus my PSA poster on the issue of "is bottled water safer to drink than tab water?"
On one easy fact, the government rules of bottled water are actually less strict than tap water rules. Which means, generally speaking, especially in the city of New York, your tap water is actually safer to drink than the bottled water you buy.

and on a section of a post on the NRDC(natural resources defense council)website,
it mentioned something pretty scary:
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) or FDA's rues exempt many forms of what most of us would consider bottled water from its definition of "bottled water," and therefore, according to FDA, exempts them from all of FDA's specific standards for bottled water testing and contamination. If the product is declared on the bottle ingredient label simply as "water," or as "carbonated water," "disinfected water," "filtered water," "seltzer water," "soda water," "sparkling water," or "tonic water," it is not considered "bottled water" by FDA.

FDA says it exempted these waters because they are "not understood by the public to be bottled water."
What is covered by FDA's rules? FDA says it regulates products labeled as "spring water," "mineral water," "drinking water," "bottled water," "purified water," "distilled water," and a few other specific categories of bottled water
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SO-
the issue I want to focus on is that, in new york, the tap water is actually safer to drink than many of the bottled water you can buy, because it is not as strictly regulated than the tap water.
maybe with a tag line saying something simple like "where's your water coming from?" with a drawing of a bottled water bottle.


more info please visit
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/chap4.asp

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