One reader asked for me to provide a list of bottled waters pumped from natural aquifers. Based on available information and studies, these waters include: Perrier, Evian, Calistoga, Crystal, Fiji, and Poland Springs.

For another perspective on bottled water, a reader named Gina wrote in with the following experience:

Hi. The Hundred Year Lie Looks really interesting. I have to make a comment on bottled water though. I only purchase distilled water. Because years ago I bought water that was from a glacier aquifier and got extremely sick from it. After drinking some grey spots grew on the inside of the bottle that looked and smelt like mold and also later a black gooy substance appeared in the bottle which later hardened. Eventually, about one and one half years later the water was tested by a government agency and found to have black plant material in it. I spoke to the man who did the actual testing and he said that he NEVER had seen that in bottled water before. The person who was assigned to my case insisted that it was normal for bottled water to have this in it. He admitted that the water facility had been checked and that their filters were not working, but remember it took almost two years for this to happen, so what ever the contaminents were ingested by other people than me. The water was never recalled and there was no public notification of what was found in it. Also, my brother notified me that a government health agency in Great Britian had traced 600 cases of Lou Gerihgs disease to bottled spring that had a bacteria that could cause that disease. Just food for thought. Gina