Proving purity.

• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Illinois now joins a few other states in requiring the annual inspection of bottled-water plants along with water sample tests. "Bottled water is technically covered at the federal level," said Satya Rhodes, policy associate for the State Environmental Resource Center in Wisconsin. "But in practice ... it's effectively unregulated at the federal level." Illinois Senator Susan Garrett was concerned that someone could just fill a bottle with tap water, put a fancy label on it...