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Bottled Water vs Tap Water

Dec 2, 2019 2:53PM PST

The great Customized bottled water vs tap water debate is about over. In this great tap versus bottled water debate there is a clear cut winner, and the winner just might surprise you. Safe, pure water has a critical role in your health and well being, so this debate is an important one.

Point #1 - Winner Tap Water

Reason - Bottled water was first introduced the marketplace more than 30 years ago and from that time consumers have considered it to be of better a caliber than ordinary tap water. Sales have been gone up by approximately 15% annually during that time Bottled water is governed much less than tap water. Tap water is regulated by both state and federal authorities. Because it is more heavily regulated than bottled, tap makes the better case.

Point #2 - Winner Tap Water

Reason - Bottled water is very expensive when compared to tap water. Bottled in most places costs much more than a gallon of gas. Even if you use a water filter pitcher type product which cost around $80 per year it's still cheaper than the $220 you might spend per year on the cheapest brand of bottled . As mentioned above tap is more regulated than bottled and in most cases is considered to be safer. So why pay more for bottled water.

Point #3 - Winner Bottled Water

Reason - Bottled water is more convenient than tap water. You can take it with you just about anywhere you go. You save yourself from having to clean another glass which saves you time.

Point #4 - Winner Tap Water

Reason - Bottled water can also be a generator of bacterial pollution if not used the right way. Once the bottle has been opened up, bacteria may go in, particularly when drinking straight from the bottle. Also when left in the sun or heated the chemicals in the bottle end up in your water. Over the long term this could cause cancer or other diseases.

Point #5 - Winner Bottled Water

In case of an emergency such as a hurricane, earthquake or other disaster tap water may not be available. Bottled water could be a life saver. Having a few cases on hand is not a bad idea as long as you rotate them every so often. Storage over the long term is not considered safe due to the chemicals that could be released into the water from the plastic bottles.

Point #6 - Winner Tap Water

Reason - If you are into conservation, tap water is the clear winner here. Bottled water has to be held accountable for the tremendous amount of plastic being used causing all sorts of problems not to mention it is petroleum by product adding to the already high price of oil. Over 60,000,000 plastic bottles are produced, transported and disposed of EVERY DAY in the U.S. alone!

Point #7 - Overall Winner In The Tap Versus Bottled Water Debate - A Water Filter!

Reason - A good quality water filter using a dual filter system and a combination of carbon filtration, ion exchange and sub micron filtration will produce healthy good tasting water directly from your kitchen tap. A filter such as this gets rid of chlorine, lead, prescription drugs, pharmaceuticals, VOCs, MTBE and cysts (chlorine-resistant parasites) and leaves in the natural trace minerals which is much safer and more healthy than bottled or tap water and is much less expensive than bottled water on a yearly basis. A water filter does not waste natural resources like a plastic water bottle does.

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Just an FYI.
Dec 2, 2019 3:13PM PST

Any links to your website will be filtered out.
Dafydd.

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Too spammy.
Dec 2, 2019 3:15PM PST

This will be a link free discussion.

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I caught that. Was waiting for the links.
Dec 3, 2019 3:52AM PST

Good job, Mods.
It happens that Consumer Reports has an article on bottled vs. tap. Worth reading.
Related: NYC is famous for its water quality, from the Hudson River. That may be changing, they say. More pollution events.

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Water is everything
Dec 5, 2019 9:29PM PST

They can be tap water or bottled water, should be prepared in a hygienic way.

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So what about rain water?
Dec 5, 2019 10:38PM PST

God made it so why not that?

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Rain water good.
Dec 6, 2019 6:05AM PST

-God

Although, I'm told that each drop condenses around a particle of atmospheric dust.
Have you seen your air lately?

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Somedays
Dec 6, 2019 8:20AM PST

We have fog and then clouds and blue sky. We're lucky in we don't live in India or Beijing.

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If I've got it right, the condensing occurs
Dec 6, 2019 8:52AM PST

much further up. In Smogvilles its the wash cycle that's nasty.

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Time to que up.
Dec 6, 2019 9:26AM PST

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs.

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I'll vote for self serve well water
Dec 6, 2019 12:57PM PST

Comes with a moral too

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Good one. I thought I had heard all of the Trio
Dec 6, 2019 1:32PM PST

back in the day, but not that one.
Good moral.
Bible often uses plentiful water in prophecies about the coming Paradise.
Ps 72:6; Gen 2:10-14 and on and on.

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Well, ol' Buster is entitled to his version,
Dec 6, 2019 1:27PM PST

but I'm old school. Sons of the Pioneers.
Not to mention Ghost Riders, although Vaughan Monroe handled that one good too, pahdnuh.

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bottle water is tap water
Dec 6, 2019 2:13AM PST

a lot of companies use tap water for their bottle water so there is no difference. some use plain tap water and some will filter the tap water depending on the company. the labels dont always tell the true source.