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Bottled Water vs Tap Water
October 15, 2008 |
Yet another reason to stop buying the plastic bottles. The Associated Press article “Bottled Water vs Tap Water” published on 10/14/2008, lists a number of contaminants in numerous samples of commercially available bottled water. Basically, the article states there is no health benefit to drinking bottled water over tap water. The contaminants in the bottled water are within EPA standards, so it is certainly not dangerous, but there is no benefit to plastic bottled water over tap water.
If you desire contaminant-free drinking water, the two ways to go are distillation and reverse osmsosis. While distillation is expensive to operate and not practical for most point-of-use applications, reverse osmosis is. When landfill requirements, purity issues and expense are taken into consideration, it makes little sense to buy bottled water.
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