Vended Water: Is It Really Chemical Free?

Author/Source: Environmental Working Group

For paying 100 times the price of tap water, vended water consumers are supposed to get drinking water that is essentially free of trihalomethanes (THMs), the chemical byproducts of treating water with chlorine. Glacier claims to reduce contaminants in tap water by approximately 97 percent, but two-thirds of the machines tested failed to remove that level of THMs.