Which is safer to drink? Tap Water or Bottled Water?

For me personally we buy bottled water. The great big 5 gallon jugs as we do go through alot of water. And the coolers that we have to go along with them is just alot more convenient than tap water. I can't stand our tap water it is quite disgusting if you ask me. It is filled with clorine and is very cloudy and takes a good 15 - 20 minutes before these setiments settle. But still just thinking about drinking a glass of water like this makes me sick. When I am at my fiances place we as well have a cooler with the 5 gallon jug. I don't really care for the water out there. But mind you it is free water as ours comes from a well. Just has a funny taste that I am not use to.

I am constantly drinking bottled water because where I live the water is so packed with fluoride or whatever poison, it is rotting the teeth of the residents here. Then I read this book recently that says the bottled water isn't safe because the chemicals used to clean the machines in the manufacturing plants(benzene) is bad for us and the fact that it is stagnant water makes it more harmful than our drinking water. Then the tomatoes are poisonous too now!?!? It makes no sense. People are starving in other parts of the world and here our food is killing us!!!!

It's hard to tell whether it's safer to drink bottled or tap water. It depends largely on where you live. If you live in Elsie, MI where a lifetime of drinking the tap water is known to cause brain damamge, then yes, bottled water is safer. In the city where I live the water is safe to drink and has caused no known health problems amoung the general population. The city water company does bottle and sell the self same tap water, but not as a major label and not out of state, and they also make it clear what the source is.