do you think bottle water is better than tap water??

@bornraf (228)
United States
May 2, 2007 5:07pm CST
I believe that tap water is as good as bottled. However, we are bombarded everyday about the benefits of bottled water against tap water. This comes with a cost. Bottle water is very costly compared to tap water. Do you think it is worth the extra cost of bottled water?
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@krashy (17)
• United States
2 May 07
I delivered bottled water for years and made a killing off sellin that stuff, so true that tap water is just as good as bottled water. The main difference is gonna be taste, the company I worked for got their water straight from same place tap water comes from, they then put it thru reverse osmosis which does purify. The only people I think that really benefit from bottled water is heart patients though, they require distilled water so I use to deliver it to lots of seniors and hospitals.
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@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
2 May 07
It totally depends on where you live, in my country we have one of the purest forms of tap water. The Scandinavian countries have that as well. But in example if you look in the Mediterranean countries, African countries or many Asian countries the tap water is quite bad and you'll probably get sick if you drink it the first time unless you come from a country with a similar type of water. When you get used to it though it doesn't really matter anymore in those countries and there won't be any difference with bottled water. Here we have Fluorine added to our tap water, good for the teeth. Something which bottled water doesn't have. So due to that bottled water definitely misses out on something beneficial.
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@Zmugzy (773)
4 May 07
Bottled water is one of the biggest cons of the last twenty years. In my opinion there is no difference between the mineral content of bottled water and quality tap water. There are no health benefits from drinking bottled water that you buy in a store or supermarket. Furthermore, the bottled water industry has caused so much unecessary waste and pollution because of the millions of tons of plastic bottles that are produced in order to sell the water all over the world. Bottled water is a complete waste of money.
@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
3 May 07
Our tap water is well filtered here so i think its just as good as bottled water. Cheaper also. I've been drinking tap water all my life and nothing is wrong with me. They didn't have bottle water in the olden days.
• United States
6 May 07
I lived in Missouri my while life and always drank from the tap. I would get boottles and fil tehm up with tap water, but when we moved to Georgia the tap water made me sick. So now I buy the water that you can get in jugs from Walmart. I guess it depends on the person.
• Serbia And Montenegro
11 Jun 07
Bottled water should be better than tap water. But things are not always as they should be!
• United States
3 May 07
I drink water from the fridge's water dispenser.