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Subject: [Goanet] (Bottled Water): Aquafina to say it comes from same source as tap water --------- Dear Robin Viegas/ B.Sabha This is a reply to your mail about Aquafina bottles; Must find out whether Aquafina who are using water from "PUBLIC WATER SOURCE ( P> W> S> ) is well filtered and from what kind of instrument is tested? If the filtering technique is not adequate than water bottles sold to public will be therefore contaminated. Just to inform you, that recently PWD water taps at Caranzalem was found contaminated with sewage,( Herald reported in full swing) and still the PWD engineers and technicians are on the job but of no success. Everyday PWD workers are on the digging job. It seems that there are 4 pipes are laid in the same area and one or two lines are contaminated. It seems the bigger pipe is newly layed down is good. PWD is trying to connect all of them, to the bigger size diameter piping as people are demanding. The water sample are taken by PWD officals everyday in random without proper procedure, no labeling , no House Number, No date and No marking in the test tube, therefore all efforts to put the line in order is unsuccessful. Except few houses all other people drink the water which is contaminated without their knowledge. I was told that Herald Manager's Mr. Michael's building is also affected and he too gets the water contaminated and smelling as per my sources. His building line is today been asked to change but GOD only knows whether all the lines are of same kind of contamination? I have inspected these lines unofficially and found that one of the houses at Caranzalem near the bakery the owner Mrs Daisy Dourado told me that the PWD person asked her to shell out Rs.10,000/- for replacing 10 pipes which goes to her house from the main road. Upon my intervention the PWD Contractor was asked to fix it up only one new pipe which crosses the road and connect to the old piping therefore she was saved of expenditure of buying pipes. Her work is completed today. . That means the PWD contractor demands people to replace the pipes at their cost, by putting them in expenses and allegedly without any receipt.? Very few people knows the real problem and they are buying filtered water to drink water in their housing and the rest drink contaminated water which comes from the line. I see these PWD staff carrying open tube collecting water sample everyday even at late evening without any lab. procedure and discarding water sample without doing any tests on just visual and smell. This is perhaps an eye wash. Nobody knows when the water line will be free for drinking. I do not understand why 4 lines first of all were used in the same area, it seems one line is MPLAD line of ex-MP John Fds, and others are fixed with influence much earlier times, etc. his whole issue must be investigated by CBI or PIL against such contamination by PWD. Who will do that? People are illiterate and poor people are suffering with this problem. There is a bakery nearby and nobody knows whether these breads sold by them are contaminated or not and people are eating everyday. One influential person also stays just nearby John Fernandes that is ex-Congress President.. I think Herald must investigate also and that Michael who resides closely must find out what is happening of water contamination of sewage in the area where he lives. The situation is very critical and serious and PWD themselves do not know what they are doing. I have asked many houses in the vicinity of this contamination and all of them said that the water is smelling and PWD also knows when they take sample that water is smelling, but day by day they say that it is reducing the smell. GOD only should help them. THAT MEANS THE AQUAFINA MENTIONED BY YOU, WILL ALSO HAVE THE SAME FATE IF THE WATER IS NOT CHECKED BY THE RENOWNED GOVT LABORATORY ( nio) OR GSPCB BOARD. STATE OF GOA IS GOING TO DOGS UNDER BJP GOVERNMENT. Luckily we in Dona Paula get good direct line. and clean. it seems this line goes to Governor Mridula Sinha Raj Bhavan and I am lucky in that case as I reside in Dona Paula. Stephen Dias Dona Paula date: 4th Feb 2016 ======================================= Message: 4 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:01:52 +0000 From: Robin Viegas <robinvie...@hotmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [Goanet] (Bottled Water): Aquafina to say it comes from same source as tap water Message-ID: < pn1pr01mb0301ff477453a21eb64108bcb8...@pn1pr01mb0301.indprd01.prod.outlook.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: b sabha <bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com> http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/story?id=3428260 [http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/131212_wn_besser_wg.jpg]< http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/story?id=3428260> Aquafina to say it comes from same source as tap water ...< http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/story?id=3428260> abcnews.go.com The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner PepsiCo said Friday. A ... The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner PepsiCo<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/pepsico.htm> said Friday. A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices. Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source." "If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do," PepsiCo pep spokeswoman Michelle Naughton said Friday. The corporate accountability group is also pressing for similar concessions from Coca-Cola<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/coca-cola.htm> ko, which owns the Dasani water brand. Dasani's website says that Dasani comes from local water supplies and is then filtered. "We don't believe that consumers are confused about the source of Dasani water," Coca-Cola spokeswoman Diana Garza Ciarlante said. "The label clearly states that it is purified water." Sales of bottled water has been a growing source of revenue for companies such as PepsiCo, based in Purchase, N.Y., and Atlanta-based Coca-Cola as they lessen their dependence on sales of traditional carbonated sodas, as consumer concern over health issues has weakened demand. ======== Also read: https://www.inverse.com/article/5819-aquafina-admits-it-s-just-tap-water?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=on_site&utm_campaign=mobile Aquafine admits it is just tap water --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 4 February 2016 at 19:42, b sabha <bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aquafina-source-tap-water/story?id=3428260 > > The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that > the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner > PepsiCo <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/pepsico.htm> said > Friday. > > A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring > bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices. > > Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are > now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source." > > "If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public > sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do," PepsiCo pep spokeswoman > Michelle Naughton said Friday. > > The corporate accountability group is also pressing for similar > concessions from Coca-Cola > <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/coca-cola.htm> ko, which > owns the Dasani water brand. > > Dasani's website says that Dasani comes from local water supplies and is > then filtered. > > "We don't believe that consumers are confused about the source of Dasani > water," Coca-Cola spokeswoman Diana Garza Ciarlante said. "The label > clearly states that it is purified water." > > Sales of bottled water has been a growing source of revenue for companies > such as PepsiCo, based in Purchase, N.Y., and Atlanta-based Coca-Cola as > they lessen their dependence on sales of traditional carbonated sodas, as > consumer concern over health issues has weakened demand. > ======== > Also read: > > https://www.inverse.com/article/5819-aquafina-admits-it-s-just-tap-water?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=on_site&utm_campaign=mobile > > Aquafine admits it is just tap water > > -- > Please send a blank email with "delete my id" in the subject line if you > do not wish to receive our mails >