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Wellsprings: A Natural History of Bottled Spring Waters

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This book reiterates the concerns of the various chemicals used to manufacture plastics, including vinyl chloride, a known carcinagen. Also phthalates are the compound to make finished product more flexible. It has not been verified but the leaching into plastic is toxic and cause more than adverse health effects. The plastic used in bottled water was invented by an engineer hnamed Nathaniel Wyeth.

Bottled water started wjithy the use of stonewall bottles which were used to draw water from the shallow wells at the Olympic Games. The materials used to store and package water have always represented the pinnacle of available technology. In 1806, Dr. Stoddard used cathartic (Hawthorne Spring) high-potency to cure rheumatism, gout, dyspepia, liver and kidney difficulties. Another doctor used spring water in Saratoga as a source of iron "to improve the condition of the blood."

Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is part of the largest single system of caverns in the world. Springs develop because of the limestone aquifers of the Appalachian Plateau for drinking water. Near Collinwood in Tennessee Mountains, the springs tap the deeper circulating waters, naturally cleansed and excellent for drinking. It was called Tennessee Mountain Pure. The landscape of eastern Tennessee is dominated by a series of valley and ridges going back 500 million years old. There is a spring at Love Creek from which many locals still get their bottles filled.

By the beginning of the 19th century, the cost of bottle making for the matent medicines (usually mineral water) was not excessive. This confluence of circumstances, which had taken more than 2,500 years since the invention of glass, was the real beginning of the bottled water industry in America.

In 1767, water from a spring in Boston known locally as Jackson's Spa was reportedly bottled for sale. Other water-bottling operations began in a relatively small way in Albany, Philadelphia. It us reported that a Philadelphia druggist was the first person to bottle mineral water in 1825.