Is tap water safer than bottled water?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Although bottled water is marketed as a safer healthier alternative to tap water, this is frequently not the case. Your tap water is more heavily regulated than bottled water, which is frequently just filtered tap water, anyways, for instance. In addition, when you figure in the risk of injury from driving to the store to buy the water and from picking up heavy cases of bottled water, it's at best a wash. The best way to go is to use a filter on your tap which can remove off flavors and particulate matter. You can go with a wholehouse filter (GE makes these), a filter on your tap (Pur or Brita) or a filtered water pitcher (Pur or Brita) for drinking.

Answer 3

Many studies have shown that bottled water is no safer than tap water. The catch is that bottled water companies are not forced to publish this information and the long held belief that it is safer has been refuted by many scientists. For many though, drinking bottled water gives a sense of security, and outweighs the potential risks of drinking tap water even though there is not much difference.

Despite hype to the contrary, tap water goes through multiple steps to weed out harmful bacteria, so bottled water and tap water are both very safe.

Answer 4

tap water is safer