What's the difference between tap water and mineral water?!


Question: Bottled drinking water, like Dasani or Aqua Fina is regular municipal water that has been charcoal filtered to remove odors and flavors. It is processed through reverse osmosis to remove most of what is dissolved in the water. Then minerals are added back so the water tastes better.

Distilled water is made by heating any water, usually municipal tap water. The steam created condenses on cold plates and this water is collected. It is essentially pure with nothing dissolve in it. It usually tastes flat and boring and in large amounts is dangerous to drink because it pulls sodium and other electrolytes out of the body.

Lastly, spring water is water that comes from naturally occuring underground sources. It may be filtered to remove suspended solids, or treated to kill dangerous bacteria, but it gererally is not, it is usually bottled just as it comes from the ground. This is often the best tasting bottled water


Answers: Bottled drinking water, like Dasani or Aqua Fina is regular municipal water that has been charcoal filtered to remove odors and flavors. It is processed through reverse osmosis to remove most of what is dissolved in the water. Then minerals are added back so the water tastes better.

Distilled water is made by heating any water, usually municipal tap water. The steam created condenses on cold plates and this water is collected. It is essentially pure with nothing dissolve in it. It usually tastes flat and boring and in large amounts is dangerous to drink because it pulls sodium and other electrolytes out of the body.

Lastly, spring water is water that comes from naturally occuring underground sources. It may be filtered to remove suspended solids, or treated to kill dangerous bacteria, but it gererally is not, it is usually bottled just as it comes from the ground. This is often the best tasting bottled water

Mineral water comes out of the ground.

Tap water comes out of a water treatment works.

Mineral water is filtered through the rocks and sandstone, thus adding mineral. Tap water is treated and filtered artificially by man

mineral water is water that has come out of a spring, been purified, and bottled, and is no better really than tap water. only difference is that tap water may be 'hard' water, which means there is more calcium in it. i prefer the taste of tap water to mineral water.,

about 60p

The price

A fancy bottle. Mineral water is ment to be cleaner than tap water but alot of tests have been done to show they are the same.

ones got to much fluoride & drug wastes in it , the other too much bacteria

well my tap water comes out cloudy even when you run the tap for ages and tastes rank. but mineral water doesn't.
also tap water comes out of a tap and mineral water comes out of a bottle.

It's mainly the price





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