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Some people feel it's foolish to obtain bottled drinking water, and ask, "Why pay for water in bottles when you could get it from your kitchen faucet?" Others prefer having options in drinking water. They want to have an understanding of what exactly is going into their bodies, they say. To that, the faucet-water drinkers counter, "Have you ever run tests on your faucet water and your bottled drinking water?

Whichever way you feel, you ought to choose your drinking water carefully. You may well even need to run tests - or obtain literature showing the results of tests that have been run on the numerous drinking waters on the market to you.

Take bottled drinking water. To a whole lot of individuals, the truth that the water is bottled means it's pure. But is it? Might it be probable that your bottled drinking water contains as remarkable a colony of "water criminals" as your tap water does?

The immediately after are definitions typically made use of on the labels of bottled drinking water to describe the water's attributes, sources, and methods of therapy. They may perhaps surprise you. These definitions are taken from the pamphlet, "Bottled Water Basics" published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

* Artesian water, ground water, spring water, nicely water - water from an underground aquifer which may possibly or might not be treated. Well water and artesian water are tapped by way of a properly. Spring water is collected as it flows to the surface or by means of a borehole. Ground water can be either.

* Distilled water - steam from boiling water is recondensed and bottled. Distilling water kills microbes and removes water's natural minerals, giving it a flat taste.

* Drinking water - water intended for human consumption and sealed in bottles or other containers with no ingredients except that it could optionally incorporate secure and appropriate disinfectants. Fluoride is usually extra inside limitations set at the bottled water high quality standards.

* Bottled drinking water may possibly come from an aquifer that has been treated with chemicals or not treated at all. Tap water will generally be treated.