Re: Bottled water vs. gasoline

In article noway@xxxxxxxxx says...
I've lived in areas where private well water was much better than
city-delivered tap water. So I don't get your point. In one house, we were
warned that the tap water wasn't safe to drink unless filtered and
"softened" first. No, this wasn't a temporary contamination problem, that
was the normal everyday quality of the tap water. -Dave

If you read the Chicago Tribune article they state that the bottled
water comes from the municipal water supply, the same supply that
supplies your house. Here in Chicago we have excellent tap water yet
lots and lots and lots of people walk around the lakefront with bottles
of water bottled from the same water that runs free from the many
drinking fountains all over the park system. Yet somehow paying a lot
of money for a liquid in a plastic bottle provides the illusion of
safety and good health. People pay for illusion and the bottled water
industry seized upon this phenomenon. I find it amazing that bottled
water can cost more than pop. At least pop has sugar and carbonation
based upon some recipe requiring the bottler to make something.

If you have bad city delivered tap water, and there's a company bottling
water in your city, then that bottled water will be just as bad.

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