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Fiji Water is a brand of bottled water derived, bottled, and shipped from Fiji, owned by the American conglomerate The Wonderful Company. According to marketing materials, the water comes from an artesian aquifer in Viti Levu. [5] Fiji Water is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Nearly 1.9 million Fiji water bottles have been recalled due to testing positive for high levels of manganese, a mineral the body needs to stay healthy but that can be toxic in high levels.
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The United States is the largest consumer market for bottled water in the world, followed by Mexico, China, and Brazil. [1] [obsolete source] In 1975, Americans rarely drank bottled water—just one gallon of bottled water per person per year on average. By 2005, it had grown to ~26 gallons (98.5 L) per person per year. [2]
The International Bottled Water Association has adopted a tougher standard for its members: 5 parts per trillion for one PFAS compound and 10 parts per trillion for more than one compound.
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires each governing jurisdiction (states, territories, and covered tribal entities) to submit a set of biennial reports on the quality of water in their area. These reports are known as the 303(d) and 305(b) reports, named for their respective CWA provisions, and are submitted to, and approved by, EPA. [63]
While the rich often drank bottled water, the poor used primarily unfiltered river water. [2] Pittsburgh at one time had the highest rate of typhoid in the country; [ 3 ] in the late 19th century, about half of all foreign-born men became sick with typhoid within two years of arriving in the city. [ 2 ]
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