14 Scary Reasons to Stop Drinking Diet Soda Right Now

Water Pollution & Environmental Damage

You probably didn’t think that by drinking diet soda, you’d be polluting the water supply. Yet in a test analyzing 19 US drinking water treatment plants (which serve over 28 million people), it was shown that artificial sweeteners have made their way into our water.The sweetener sucralose (an aspartame alternative) was found to be present in the source water of 15 out of the 19 treatment plants, the finished water of 13 plants, and in 8 out of 12 water distribution systems.