20 Things You Didn't Know About... Water | Environment | DISCOVER Magazine
1 Water is everywhere—there are 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on the earth’s surface. But less than 1 percent of it is fresh and accessible, even when you include bottled water.
2 And “fresh” can be a relative term. Before 2009, federal regulators did not require water bottlers to remove E. coli.
3 Actually, E. coli doesn’t sound so bad. In 1999 the Natural Resources Defense Council found that one brand of spring water came from a well in an industrial parking lot near a hazardous waste dump.
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