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.
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.
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.
NO!!! bottled water costs so much more than tap!
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.
Actually tap water is more regulated and pure than bottled 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.
It's about the same. Most bottled water IS tap water, so any chemicals and weird stuff in tap water are in bottled water too.
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
No I don't think so.
tap water...
it depends whether bottled water has been in a fridge or not,if it has been hanging around in a bag all day then, no probably not. Generally tap water is colder.
The benefits of bottled water over tap water are it does not have that metallic taste which can be found from tap water, high health and safety standards are associated with bottled water to ensure it is free of contaminants.