Tip - Summary of Findings

Study authors: Nneka Leiba, MPH, Analyst; Sean Gray, MS, Senior Analyst; Jane Houlihan, MSCE, Sr VP for Research Overview The bottled water industry routinely fails to provide information to consumers about the water’s specific geographic source, purification methods and the results of purity testing, a new EWG investigation shows. Overall, more than half of the 173 bottled water brands surveyed in 2010 flunked EWG's transparency test.