One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Scientists recommend filtered tap water and drinking from a stainless steel reusable bottle. In A Nutshell Switching to tap ...

Bottled water has long been marketed as the cleaner, safer alternative to what flows from the tap. New research is turning that assumption upside down, showing that some brands are laced with ...

Bottled water may expose people to more nanoplastic particles than treated tap water, largely due to plastics shed from ...

Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to a new review of research that calls for urgent regulatory measures to ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

Microscopic pieces of plastic are everywhere. Now, they've been found in bottled water in concentrations 10 to 100 times more than previously estimated. Researchers from Columbia University and ...

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics ...