Bottled Water Guide

The debate over bottled water VS tap water is carried on by industry, environmental groups and consumers, alike.  In some cases, the comparison of tap versus bottled water is simple, because they are basically the same thing.Major bottling companies like Coke and Pepsi use “municipal sources”, as do 25% of all bottling companies in the [...]

The popularity of bottled water has surged in the last 5 years… Most households prefer it to tap water for reasons of taste and apparent health benefits. However, many bottled water products simply filter what is essentially tap water and in the process remove many of the mineral and element benefits that water has naturally. [...]

Americans now spend more than fifteen billion a year on bottled water.It takes about 50 million barrels of oil a year to make the 28 billion plastic bottles that contain this water. This is enough oil to fuel about 20% of the cars in the United States annually. Bizarrely it takes three times more water [...]

JB asked: Although water, for the most part tastes the same, but some water has sodium in it. Where I live, iI enjoy Fiji bottled water and Smart water. I **** Dasani because it tastes like seawater!

alphadeltha asked: I couldn’t careless about how healthy, pure or w/e BS is on the description. I want a water that taste good room temp and cold. Tap water use to be good, but recently all it taste like to me is chlorine. So i’ve been trying bottled water. ALL OF IT TASTE LIKE THERE [...]

spackler asked: And what are the best ones to get when they’re on sale?

suffolkriddell asked: I have seen loads of ads for ‘ethical’ waters in the UK, where I buy bottled water and another charity benefits. There seem to be a few of them, but which one should I pick? Any suggestions?

taekwondobabe30 asked: I am doing a science fair project where I am testing how truly clean different brands of bottled water are and I’m comparing the amount of residue and whatnot left behind, and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions about how to best evaporate the water? Thank you.

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Every day more and more people are realizing the benefits of adopting a healthy life style and one of the basic ingredients of good health is healthy drinking water. This is true not only for the individual, but for their families as well. Starting young children off on healthy living will go a long way [...]