why does bottled water have a best before date on when it has been around for millions of years?

Answer 1

All water has been around for millions of years, whether it's from an aquifer or the tap. Most bottled water you buy doesn't come directly from a spring or an aquifer and into the bottle, regardless of what they put on the label.

The water in that bottle has to be treated and water treatment involves chemicals, so you are purchasing chemically treated water which has no source of oxygen. Not a great combination.

The vast majority of it is also treated by a reverse osmosis process, which actually wastes 4 times the amount of water you get ~ in other words, if you buy a 32 oz bottle of water, a gallon of water has been wasted in order to produce it.

Do a little research on our aquifers. You'll find that we now "replenish" them periodically. We have abused them to the point that the natural water once in them is virtually gone.

There is a natural artesian well about 3 miles from my house. Years ago someone capped it and brought a pipe up so that people could easily fill containers from it ~ it runs constantly, so this thoughtful person put in a largish pipe and put a grate atop it so that the running water could continue to run off into the small spring-fed creek it had created who knows how long ago.

Less than 8 years ago and approximately 8-10 miles from the well, the EPA shut down a battery collection center. The center had dug a large hole and after reclaiming what they could from the batteries, they were dumping them into the hole. Battery dump = ground contamination = ground water contamination.

Please don't support the wasting of what little water we have left by supporting water bottling companies.

I worked several years with an architect who did his thesis on 'green' architecture. He was a very knowledgeable young man. He showed me a lot of his research materials that were compiled for his thesis. Do you know that the earth receives approximately 50% of the rainfall that it got in the 1950's? Yet we have more people alive on earth now than all that have lived before us and died. It doesn't take a math genius to do the numbers there, does it?

We really need to conserve our water and supporting companies who waste 4x the amount they sell at overinflated prices is not going to do much for conservation.

Answer 2

Water becomes flat or the gases in the water simply move out of the water. This is why some spring or mineral water is popular because of dissolved gases as well as mineral content...where do the gases go...remember that plastic is slightly porous and the water and mineral molecules are larger than the gas molecules and thus are kept inside the bottle but the gas can escape. Perrier water is normally bottled in glass to prevent this escape.

Answer 3

There are expiration dates because it's the bottle that expires, not the water. Plastic contains synthetic estrogen and after a certain amount of time that chemical will begin to seep into the liquid that's in the bottle and it may cause health problems. Hope that helps!

Answer 4

I think some one at a factory was suppose to put milk in the bottles and screwed up and put water, so everyone continued putting water in dated bottles. The bottles are universal. One size fits all!!

Answer 5

Because bottled water has been changed from it's natural state, simply by putting it in the bottle.

Answer 6

The bottle degrades spoiling the water

Answer 7

coz when the bottle goes old it harms the particles of water also there is loadz of stupid european rules that says everyfood should have a best before date......which is sometimes could be good and not. though i saw a show that states that 'honey' lasts for years but then it has exp.date.

Answer 8

Water does spoil believe it or not. That was the problem in the 17th century. They where drinking spoiled water before they reached the new world.
It all really depends on how the water is stored. Water normally does not spoil quickly, then again it all depends on where, how you store it

Answer 9

so they can sell more, because some people only drink bottled water and (hopefully to them) the water goes off and the person buys more!

Answer 10

You wouldn't really want to know where most bottled water comes from...