What is a Better Choice Tap Water vs. Bottled Water?
General July 2nd, 2010
There is sometimes a difference between bottled water and tap water What is better to drink is another question that comes to mind when thinking about the first question. Then another thought, is one safer then the other?
Everybody seems to have a different answer to these questions when they are asked. It is obvious that if people stopped buying bottled water then the bottled water companies would go out of business. Well the fact is that bottled water and tap water happens to be the same thing. This is true if the bottles sticker says anywhere on it that it has been bottled from any municipal, like vegetable juices usually. This means that you are drinking water that could have come from the tap at somebody’s home.
Some believe that the plastic bottles that the bottled water comes in can leach poisons into the water and this depends on the amount of time that the water sat in it. Not only poisons can be present from the plastic but there can be some bacteria as well. There has been studies done that prove the higher price that you pay for bottled water the better the water you get, which is like distilled water usually. So this means that there is no poisons or bacteria in the higher priced water.
All tap water is regulated however there have been some big issues over the past years with tap water not being safe. Tests have given proof that tap water has mercury, aluminium, bacteria, and parasites as well. Also with all of the nasty metals found there have been trace amounts of the paper products that are flushed down the toilets. With this said maybe the best form of obtaining water is your tap water filtered yourself. This is similar to vegetable juices to most people. This way you know where it has come from and what it goes through before you drink it.
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