Europe - News about drinking water

NY Times- Troubled waters keep Coke's Dasani off French shelves - March 26, 2004
PARIS. In a land where babies drink Evian and consumers pay a premium for 'natural,' revelations about chemical content threatens to sink a US brand.
"Waiting for Dasani..."
That has been the slogan, full of anticipation, on the French website of America's second biggest bottled water brand, as Coca Cola prepared to roll out its latest transAtlantic assault on the land of Perrier and Evian next month.

NY Times- Coke Recalls Bottled Water Newly Introduced to Britain - March 19, 2004
LONDON. Only weeks after it introduced Dasani bottled water into Britain, the Coca-Cola Company ordered a recall of some 500,000 bottles on Friday after finding excess levels of bromate. The chemical, with long-term exposure, has been linked to a higher risk of cancer.

BASA-PRESS- Moldovan Environmentalists Concerned Over Quality of Drinking Water - April 3, 2003
Data from the Ecologist Movement show that 50.3 percent of residents from settlements where the wells contain nitrates suffer from chronic diseases of liver.

Environment News Service - France Finds High Pesticide Levels in Drinking Water
Testing of French surface and groundwaters has shown widespread contamination by pesticides, the country's environment and agriculture ministries have announced.

Science News Online-Drugged Waters Does it matter that pharmaceuticals are turning up in water supplies
Chemists at an agricultural research laboratory run by the Swiss government were screening lake water for pesticide contamination when they ran across a puzzling result....

Water scare at Liverpool hospital
Patients and staff at Liverpool Women's Hospital are using bottled water after its water supply became contaminated.

Toxic waste spill threatens Spanish national park
Europe's biggest nature reserve is in danger of contamination after a Canadian-owned mining company's toxic waste spilled into a major river. Spanish authorities are racing against time to block further contamination.

Pollution turns Tisza black
The authorities in Ukraine have expressed concern about another spillage of contaminated sludge into the River Tisza, which they say has turned the water black.

Medieval' diseases on the comeback
Cholera and typhoid are emerging again as health threats on the fringes of Europe because of poor hygeine and sanitation, warns the WHO.  

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