Is bottled water "really" pure? Is it any different from tap?!
Is bottled water "really" pure? Is it any different from tap?
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I saw a recent study on TV regarding this. Actually the majority of the bottled water here in the U.S. is just tap water from some where that they ran through a process to make it cleaner. I don't remember which one but it was a nationally recognized label that actually comes from a town in TX and just comes out of their local water supply. It says it comes from a "natural spring" or something like that on the bottle but that's not true. I think you need to examine your local water supply and determine if it's in your best interested to spend extra money on bottled water. Where I live we've had some water "scares" where they've said to stop drinking the city water for a period of time because a high level of something or another. So we typically buy bottled water anyway.
It doesn't have some additives like tap, but it's not pure from the stream.
You don't have to buy bottled to get equal quality though.
Buy a Brita or Pur (or other) filtering pitcher, follow the setup directions and you can make your tap water just as good as bottled.
Recent reports and older ones indicate that it is just tap water from someplace.
It doesn't have fluoride and that's why the dentists are getting richer
It depends on where you are. Memphis, TN, for instance, periodically compares city water to bottled, with advantage to the tap (barring poor plumbing inside the house), but that's an extraordinary situation. Water is a very local thing, and there's probably a "water board" or some such in your community government that can give you specifics if you wish.
generally speaking it is the same.
Bottled water is different from tap because it is fresh. It is not really pure.