Dr. Joseph Mercola, a well-known advocate for health, bases his opinions on plenty of research. So what does he think about the water we drink?

The researchers found a positive correlation between increasingly high urine levels of BPA in pregnancy and worse behavior in their daughters. For every 10-fold increase in BPA levels, girls scored at least six points worse on the questionnaires. Oddly enough, no such correlation was found for sons.

Two Minnesota colleges are joining a reported nationwide push among students to ban bottled water as a favor to the environment.

College of St. Benedict and Macalester College both are banning the sale and purchase of bottled water on campus. Bottled water results in landfills full of plastic bottles, not to mention causes consumers to pay for something that’s basically free, said students on the campuses in interviews with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. And then there’s the BPA issue–who wants extra estrogen in their water?

Cashiers are particularly likely to get BPA exposure through the skin, handling paper receipts that are coated with the stuff as well as money that’s gotten a good dusting of it from the receipts. In fact, cashiers should wear gloves. That’s what a researcher from New York says.

Reader’s Digest features an article on clean water on its cover for August. “We have the safest drinking water in the world–except for the pesticides that sometimes sneak in. And the rocket fuel. And the antibiotics…”

A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Cheryl Rosenfeld, has pinpointed a fundamental flaw with previous studies on the dangers of bisphenyl A, or BPA, a widely used plastics additive that mimics estrogen. The study was published June 6 in the journal “Environmental Health Perspectives.”

Consumers’ Union, the group that publishes the popular Consumer Reports, wants the federal government to ban BPA in food and beverage containers, in order to protect all consumers–especially children.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday published an article today identifying the “Toxic Ten every day products you should avoid.” Number two (behind air fresheners) is bottled water.

Last month, 26 percent of Coca-cola shareholders expressed concern about BPA, asking the company to reveal its plans for the future concerning the chemical. But that wasn’t a large enough proportion for the top brass to do anything about it.

After eating a diet of freshly prepared food with no plastic packaging for just three days, the amount of BPA in their urine dropped by an average of 66 percent.