There is still no sign of contamination, White said Sunday, but he asked that residents continue to drink bottled water or boil tap water before drinking it.
Robert Durand, a spokesman for the prison, said prisoners are provided with bottled water and that the tap water is safe to drink.
Tap and bottled water accounted for around 30% of the typical American's liquid intake last year, up from 16% two decades before, according to Beverage Marketing Corp.
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He told them that guards were refusing to provide bottled water and telling prisoners to drink from tap water that inmates believe is non-potable.
Bottled water often comes from the same source as tap water, where that is available (sometimes at a hundredth of the price), though it should at least be clean.
More than a fifth of those who have cut back order tap water, not bottled water.
Unlike tap water suppliers, bottled water companies don't have to have their water tested by a certified laboratory, and they aren't required to notify customers within 24 hours if they find elevated levels of contaminants.
Entrants representing countries from Bosnia to South Korea submit a total of more than 100 waters among four categories, including best municipal (tap) water, best bottled non-carbonated water, best bottled carbonated water and best purified (distilled or mechanically filtered) water.
First, we have been bombarded with advertisements that claim that our tap water is unsafe, or that bottled water is safer, healthier, and more hip, often with celebrity endorsements.
Ngo, 34, has a Brita filter for tap water and also keeps his pantry stocked with cases of bottled water.
Consumers are putting jugs of tap water into their refrigerators, and Pepsi notes a sharp decline in bottled water sales.
British experts, tasting an array of expensive bottled waters for a consumer magazine, awarded top marks to a humble sample of tap water from Thames Water, a less-than-fashionable utility.
Few of us are fortunate enough to enjoy clean municipal tap water -- the rest have to make do with clunky bacteria-riddled filters and wasteful bottled H2O.
In fact, the amount of bottled water Americans drink has risen nearly every year for more than two decades, while the estimates of how much tap water people drink has fluctuated up and down during that time.
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