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Tap water generally contains metals such as copper and lead from the piping it goes through to get to your faucet, and the idea behind bottled water is that it does not contain these metals. Bottled water is supposed to be pure, lacking any metal impurities, but many companies do not meet these standards. Find a major brand that fits your price range and stick with it.
Bottled water is not really any safer to drink than tap water is. The EPA sets standards for all tap water, which makes it completely safe to drink, although it does have chemicals that have treated it.
Yes. Because of no chloride in and the multiple filtering of bottled water it is much safer than tap water.
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It is safer to drink bottle water than tap?
In the US , not necessarily, as some bottled waters are just from a tap somewhere anyway. In a foreign country, probably a good idea , if the bottled water is a known brand.
Is it safer to drink botteled water than tap water?
Yes it is safe. if the bottle is well sealed. If you boil the water first killing many micro organisms and bacteria and store in a sterilized bottle it will keep in definitely. Do not reuse plastic store water bottles as they leach harmful chemicals. Glass is probably best.
How many people would recommend filtered water?
Home filtered water usually gives you better quality water than bottled water. It is one tenth the cost of bottled water and has a good pure clean taste. "Therefore, while much tap water is indeed risky, having compared available data, we conclude that there is no assurance that bottled water is any safer than tap water." -- The Natural Resources Defense Council
Why should you stop drinking bottled water immediately?
It takes a lot of resources to make the bottles, fill them up and ship them out. Then some more to deal with the empties. You can save a lot of energy, and reduce waste, by drinking tap water. Even filtering the tap water - if needed - takes far less energy than bottled water.
Does tap water cost more than bottled water?
NO!!! bottled water costs so much more than tap!
Is tap water safer than bottled water?
Water bottling plants are self regulating. They abide by their own rules. They are also vulnerable to employe tamerping. If a hypodermic needle can end up in a package of ham, we must ask what can end up in your water? Often, bottling plants draw water from open air sources, even underground water sources are sometimes fed by open air streams miles away from the pumping station. Anything can fall in, grow, or die in those streams. Then its filtered and sold at a higher cost than automotive fuel. City's however have to be a little more responcible, since bad water could cripple almost an entire city in days if left undetected. Most city's store this water in massive underground tanks and water towers were nothing can fall in. Atleast we'd hope. However we do know what does fall in. And that is tons of chlorien, floride and who knows what else! In the end, the only safe choice is to distill your bottled water by bioling it and collecting the steam. Or filtering your tap water and then distilling it. but keep in mind that distilled water can make you very sick because it is unstable, and goes bad very fast due to the extra oxygen being boiled out of it.
Why is it more difficult to rid a community of a disease transmitted by arthropods than a disease transmitted via contaminated drinking water?
because you can just stop drinking the water and buy water bottles that were bottled far away so the water is ok. arthropods are hard to wipe out
Is it safe to drink water drank by a dog?
It is probably safer than drinking water drank by a human the dog has fewer diseases that can be caught by humans then humans do.
Does tap water cost more then bottled water?
Actually tap water is more regulated and pure than bottled water
Is bottle water better than tap water?
Depends on what company you're comparing tap water to. But most bottled water companies use filtered water (the same as tap water). In most cases bottled water is not purer than tap water. Note that tap water is not the same everywhere, not are all brands of bottled water the same. But legal requirements for water purity are the same for tap water as for bottled water. In some cases, bottled water actually is tap water, that has simply been taken from the tap and put into bottles.
Why should you use reusable water bottles?
The reputation of bottled water is lying bleeding in the gutter, which probably isn't a bad thing.While the product certainly does have its place, disposable plastic water bottles have become a blight on the planet due to the levels of consumption of bottled water products.The plastic in disposable water bottles http://wiki.answers.com/articles/187/1/Recycling-by-the-numbers.html, but where there is no deposit system such as we have in South Australia, the majority of the bottles wind up in landfill.According to statistics from the International Bottled Water Association, in 2000 Americans consumed 4.7 billion gallons of bottled water, which represented less than 9 percent of total beverage consumption. By 2008 bottled water consumption increased to almost 8.7 billion gallons.However, after the bad press bottled water received regarding plastic waste and water quality a couple of years back, an interesting thing took place.In 2007, Americans were drinking on average 29.0 gallons of bottled water a year; a 5.3% increase on the previous year. In 2008, that had dropped to 28.5 gallons; a drop of 1.8% and the first drop in over a decade.The International Bottled Water Association acknowledges that environmental concerns may have played a role in the drop.People didn't stop drinking water, so what happened?Refillable water bottles did.Aside from the environmental benefits of using a refillable water bottle, I ran some quick calculations for my article "http://wiki.answers.com/blogs/459/Is-water-too-cheap.htmlwater too cheap?" and found that the water we get from our taps here in Australia costs about USD 0.4 cents per gallon. I have only ever bought one bottle of water a few months back and that quart cost a few bucks!With the addition of a home water filter, you can have water as good, if not better than many bottled water brands - as some of the bottled water brands pull their water directly from municipal supplies and at times don't even bother filtering it.
The Pros and Cons of Bottled Water?
Cons - can you say the word 'plastic consumption'? If you have no other choice than bottled water, that is one thing. If, on the other hand, you have the chance to install a water filter or get yourself one of those filtering water pitchers, by all means do so. There have been a variety of studies (many with negative results) citing negative effects on the body as a result from drinking liquids from plastic bottles and cups. http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/are-you-drinking-and-eating-cancer-plastic-bottles-will-have-you-on-the-way-to-chemotherapy-443098.html Here is just one article citing possible effects from continuous drinking from bottled water.
