I drink bottled water, but if I boil tap water, like for my green tea, etc. I drink it. and I don't drink bottled water in plastic, if it has been laying in the heat and/or not refrigerated.. I am unsure of all the pros and cons.

I live in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, in the summer our water gets real awful and smelly because of algie. I expect this every summer in the month of August usually. However this summer the water smelled like the bug spray they spray at night to kill the bugs more so the blood sucking kind that I cant spell and couldnt find in the dictionary.  Well I drank the water and so far I am in good health,  I personally think bottle water is a great money making industry and that we can boil our tap water and use our own bottles. but I am as cheap as they come!

That's a good point.  I don't remember the brands but there is one or two that are truly bottled water...the rest are tap bottled water, from what I've heard, you're right. 

Melissa.

How does one know that bottled water is not just tap water bottled? Talk about wasting your money

thanks goodness it is cooling down here in Vancouver. Anyways, I used to drink lot's of tap water in yrs; but since one of our friends tested our water and the color is kinda rusty or copper?  I started purchasing bottled water. my children prefers to drink it too.

Have a good one.

Adela

You have a good point...no one would buy it from here either!

Melissa.

Hi Sunnie,

Thanks for answering that.  I'll try the Aquafina next.  I use tap water for everything except straight drinking something. 

Missy

Hi Missy,

I went to a seminar on water once, and they said the best bottled water to drink that is "off the shelf" in local grocery stores is Aquafina.  Mostly all bottled water is tap water, some of it is spring water.  However Aquafina is filtered much more than other brands, so supposely is better/safer.  The water and sewer department here says if you want really pure water out of faucets that the price would be so prohibitive that you couldn't afford to drink it.  I use it in cooking, but drinking even coffee I used filtered, and buy the bottled when I just want water.

Sunnie

Hi Melissa,

I have a filter on my water cause it is terrible

for city water, I carry bottled water to work.

Never reuse plastic water bottles, recycle!

Sludge

Thank you...I didn't know that!

Melissa.