Do you think your bottled water is real, or just tap, that you just paid for?!


Question: Most of the stuff is just tap, during the "medicine in the water" scare a few weeks ago, they tested bottled water, and it contained the same medicine as home tap water, proving that they get it from the same place tap comes from. The key is, some states/places have amazingly good tap water, ie. Michigan and up north, where there are not a lot of people, but enough to not have well water. Other places like in the West, your better off drinking bottled.

Where i live you can't tell the difference, I once did a blind test with 2 people who drank up to 4 bottles of botted water a day. Neither guess correctly. However, when I lived in California, the water smelled like perfume from the tap, but here in Michigan, it's cold and tastes amazing.


Answers: Most of the stuff is just tap, during the "medicine in the water" scare a few weeks ago, they tested bottled water, and it contained the same medicine as home tap water, proving that they get it from the same place tap comes from. The key is, some states/places have amazingly good tap water, ie. Michigan and up north, where there are not a lot of people, but enough to not have well water. Other places like in the West, your better off drinking bottled.

Where i live you can't tell the difference, I once did a blind test with 2 people who drank up to 4 bottles of botted water a day. Neither guess correctly. However, when I lived in California, the water smelled like perfume from the tap, but here in Michigan, it's cold and tastes amazing.

real i can taste the difference

Nope,because I never buy bottled water. Correction I HAVE bought a couple of cases to put in my emergency kit in the garage, the cheapest I could find, but otherwise, I do not buy bottled water. I fail to see why people buy plain water at a price which is well over double the price of gasoline... I do not think there is anything special or unique about bottled water worth the price they charge. Sure, some are flavored, filtered and purified and such, but what good does that really DO to make it worth the price? If I want flavored water, I'll buy a soda or make a pitcher of Kool Aid. I happen to live in the Pacific Northwest and think the plain tap water I have is excellent..

Edit: On the flip side, I have a next door neighbor who ONLY drinks bottled water and uses it for cooking, everything except to shower saying it contains less impurities. The only fallacy with his argument that he consumes less impurities is that when he takes a shower, he absorbs those impurities he is claiming to avoid, through his skin. During a typical shower, the average person absorbs 1 or 2 quarts, more if you take a long bath. He thinks it is worth the extra cost however...

real....... cuz it tastes a lot different....... but if its just tap i don't care.... it's so much better than my tap water.....

I can always be thankful to God that I've never wasted my money on that stuff. God Bless you.

It's triple- or quadruple-filtered tap. I have no doubt.

tricky question cause when u go and fill ur gallons up at the store, once a blue moon its tap but when u buy bottle water its real....

I'm sure its tap water but filtered in some way to get rid of the tap water taste.lol

I drink fiji brand bottled water as much as I can afford and it tastes no where near what tap water tastes like.





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