Chemical Characterization and Quality Compliance of Bottled Mineral Water in Bangladesh

Abstract

Environmental auditing on bottled water chemistry has done to support sustainable practices and to have a positive impact on the
bottled water consumption to community level and environment. Bottled water consumption is increasing day by day in Bangladesh
with the safe and pure water supply perception (customer) and advertisements (company). The article is intended to provide an
environmental audit to find out the integrity between perception and the existing facts of the bottled waters chemistry in Bangladesh.
Nine brands available in the local market (MUM, FRESH, JIBON, ACME, FUWANG, PRAN, ALMA, MUKTA, and LIBRA) were
analyzed to verify the labeled value and its compliance with local standards (BSTI) and International standards (WHO). In the study
the Bangladesh Standard Specification for Drinking Water BDS-1240:2001 and the Bangladesh Standard Specification for Natural
Mineral Water BDS-1414:2000 are taken as the standard parameter for environmental auditing of bottled waters to make compliance
audits of labeling. The findings of the study revealed that consumer rights are not protected and the practices the manufacturers follow
to control the quality of drinking water are largely flawed.