Is Tap Water Cleaner Than Bottled Water Sold at Stores?
Many of us think our drinking water is clean and safe.
We turn on the faucet to get a nice cool drink of water, or we grab at bottle of water from the fridge or from the convenience store coolers.
Probably most of us never think to ask is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores.
So lets look at that question a little deeper instead of just brushing right past it.
If the bottled water you grab is bottled and sold in the same state, it doesn't have to meet any federal regulations.
Sixty to seventy percent of the bottled water falls into that category.
The water doesn't have to be of higher quality or any cleaner or safer than the water out of your kitchen faucet.
It does not even have to be as good as tap water since it is not regulated.
As a good business practice it should at least taste good or no one would buy it.
While we are on the subject of buying it, let's look at the cost.
In the past, I have bought many bottles of water at 99 cents for a 20-ounce bottle.
I've been glad to find it under a dollar when I am away from home and need to quench my thirst on a hot summer day.
I did not even stop to think that water is costing me over $6.
00 per gallon.
Wow! I won't be doing that again.
When I probe a little further and look at the consequences on the environment when I think of all those millions of plastic bottles being disposed of in our landfills, I resolve to stop the habit of buying bottled water.
I know it is convenient to grab bottled and sealed water, but we need to consider what we are doing to our land.
I think I've answered the question concerning is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores, but I'm not quite finished yet.
We need to look a little closer about what is in the tap water.
If we don't have a home water purification system that removes chlorine from our water, we are drinking dangerous chemicals.
Chlorine in our water has been linked to cancer.
Most drinking water straight from the tap also contains lead, herbicides from agricultural runoff, pharmaceuticals drugs, and many other dangerous chemicals.
The Ralph Nader Research Institute says we have more than 2100 toxic chemicals in the U.
S.
water supply that causes cancer.
So we don't need to ask is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores.
Because even if it is or isn't, it still is not what we should be drinking.
We need to purchase a water filtering system that will remove contaminates out of our water.
Then we need to buy a few glass or stainless steel bottles that we can bottle our own water in, to take with us when we are away from home and need a class of non-contaminated water to quench our thirst.
Look for a two-stage carbon filtration system that also uses ion exchange and sub-micron filtration to remove all the toxic chemicals.
You'll spend tons less money than you now do on bottled water, and you'll be drinking safer water than just turning on your kitchen faucet and consuming what comes out without a filtering system.
We turn on the faucet to get a nice cool drink of water, or we grab at bottle of water from the fridge or from the convenience store coolers.
Probably most of us never think to ask is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores.
So lets look at that question a little deeper instead of just brushing right past it.
If the bottled water you grab is bottled and sold in the same state, it doesn't have to meet any federal regulations.
Sixty to seventy percent of the bottled water falls into that category.
The water doesn't have to be of higher quality or any cleaner or safer than the water out of your kitchen faucet.
It does not even have to be as good as tap water since it is not regulated.
As a good business practice it should at least taste good or no one would buy it.
While we are on the subject of buying it, let's look at the cost.
In the past, I have bought many bottles of water at 99 cents for a 20-ounce bottle.
I've been glad to find it under a dollar when I am away from home and need to quench my thirst on a hot summer day.
I did not even stop to think that water is costing me over $6.
00 per gallon.
Wow! I won't be doing that again.
When I probe a little further and look at the consequences on the environment when I think of all those millions of plastic bottles being disposed of in our landfills, I resolve to stop the habit of buying bottled water.
I know it is convenient to grab bottled and sealed water, but we need to consider what we are doing to our land.
I think I've answered the question concerning is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores, but I'm not quite finished yet.
We need to look a little closer about what is in the tap water.
If we don't have a home water purification system that removes chlorine from our water, we are drinking dangerous chemicals.
Chlorine in our water has been linked to cancer.
Most drinking water straight from the tap also contains lead, herbicides from agricultural runoff, pharmaceuticals drugs, and many other dangerous chemicals.
The Ralph Nader Research Institute says we have more than 2100 toxic chemicals in the U.
S.
water supply that causes cancer.
So we don't need to ask is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores.
Because even if it is or isn't, it still is not what we should be drinking.
We need to purchase a water filtering system that will remove contaminates out of our water.
Then we need to buy a few glass or stainless steel bottles that we can bottle our own water in, to take with us when we are away from home and need a class of non-contaminated water to quench our thirst.
Look for a two-stage carbon filtration system that also uses ion exchange and sub-micron filtration to remove all the toxic chemicals.
You'll spend tons less money than you now do on bottled water, and you'll be drinking safer water than just turning on your kitchen faucet and consuming what comes out without a filtering system.
