Word: artesian
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...effort to clean up the industry, the FDA is proposing the most sweeping new regulations in two decades. The most controversial would set uniform definitions for types of bottled waters, such as "artesian," "mineral," "distilled" and "natural spring." These terms are now generally ill defined. Some names, such as Grayson's "mountain water" and Music's "glacier water," defy definition since no such categories exist...
...businessman actually brought water back from Chicago, some 90 miles away. Schools shut off drinking fountains; the Culligan man showed up outside a local TV station to distribute distilled water; and a line formed outside the old Pryor Avenue Iron well, one of the city's few sources of artesian water...