Even pricy 'spring waters' such as Zephyrhills (a regional one round here) are ... if the source of the town's water is a from a live, free-flowing aquifer (an artesian well or spring), they can claim 'spring water' status.
A local high-school science teacher decided to test out the 'bottled water is better' theory on his students with a taste test of several bottled waters, with a ringer snuck in: the local tap water, which won hands down.
I haven't tracked down the stories about the bottles' leaching substances into the water stored in them; that would be another fun thing to track down.
I do in general trust bottled waters to be okay, but no better or worse than tap water. It boils down to whether you want to pay a premium for taste. I do sometimes.
Stuff like Dasani and Aquafina taste nasty to me. Why bother with that?
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Date: Mar. 20th, 2004 10:52 am (UTC)From:Even pricy 'spring waters' such as Zephyrhills (a regional one round here) are ... if the source of the town's water is a from a live, free-flowing aquifer (an artesian well or spring), they can claim 'spring water' status.
A local high-school science teacher decided to test out the 'bottled water is better' theory on his students with a taste test of several bottled waters, with a ringer snuck in: the local tap water, which won hands down.
I haven't tracked down the stories about the bottles' leaching substances into the water stored in them; that would be another fun thing to track down.
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Date: Mar. 20th, 2004 03:57 pm (UTC)From:I do in general trust bottled waters to be okay, but no better or worse than tap water. It boils down to whether you want to pay a premium for taste. I do sometimes.
Stuff like Dasani and Aquafina taste nasty to me. Why bother with that?