Posted on 01/16/2009 10:28:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What Are the Types of Bottled Water?
There are several types of bottled water on the market today and each kind has a different level of quality and method of production. Spring water and purified water represent the main options available to the consumer. There seems to be a belief among many consumers that spring water represents the best option for those looking for the purest water. However, in reality this is a misconception brought on by clever marketing from spring water companies. Upon closer inspection it becomes clear that the for the purity concerned water drinker, purified bottled water represents the absolute best option.
Why Choose Purified Bottled Water instead of Bottled Spring Water?
Spring water companies have been very successful at making consumers believe that spring water represents the most pure option on the market. The multi-national conglomerates that dominate the water industry have spent millions of advertising dollars to brand spring water as a premium bottled water product. Unfortunately, many consumers end up buying spring water instead of the more pure bottled water options on the market because they don’t know the truth.
Consumers often do not realize that spring waters fluctuate in quality because the aquifers from which they emanate are constantly in a state of change. Spring water companies typically describe their sources as "protected areas" however when you look at the facts springs are recharged via the hydrologic cycle. When rain replenishes the springs there can be all sorts of contaminants introduced into the springs. Some of the geology of the area can help to filter out some contaminants but it can also add some others. With so much uncertainty and lack of consistency, spring water cannot be considered the purest bottled water option.
When looking for the purest bottled water on the market consumers should forgo spring water and instead choose ultra-purified bottled water. Contrary to spring water, true ultra-purified water undergoes a rigorous and standardized purification process. To meet the legal definition of "purified water", water impurities must be removed or reduced to extremely low levels. Water which meets this definition is of higher purity than spring water, tap water or filtered water.
To find the best purified water one should seek out a company that purifies their bottled water through a multi-stage purification process. The purification system used should include Micron Sediment Filtration, Ion Exchange, Granular Activated Carbon, Micron Carbon Filtration, Ultraviolet Disinfection, Dual-Pass Reverse Osmosis, Ozonation and Continuous Recirculation. When set up properly, these purification techniques will produce water of extremely high purity and remove all of the nasty contaminants found in spring water and tap water.
A bottled water company using a purification system with all of the techniques previously mentioned could produce exceptionally pure water from any source. The end result would always be the same ultra-purified water free of contaminants such as heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors and volatile organic compounds.
How can you get Purified Bottled Water?
So now that you know ultra-purified water is the most pure bottled water on the market you need to know where to find it. Purified water can be found in some grocery stores typically in single serve bottles in the range or 16.9 oz to 24 oz bottles. While single serve bottles can be great for on the go situations they aren’t always practical or economical for fulfilling your regular hydration needs at the home or office.
To meet your daily water needs it is best to get ultra-purified water in large bottles, typically 5 gallon or 3 gallon bottles and then to dispense the water through a water cooler or other type of water dispenser. Very few retail stores carry ultra-purified water in large bottles so the best option is to find a local bottled water delivery company to bring the bottles to you.
A good local bottled water company will bring 3 and 5 gallon bottles of water directly to your home or office with enough water to last for several weeks. This will take the hassle out of going to the store and allow you to consume the purest water (purified by multiple processes including reverse osmosis) possible in a practical and economical way. Best Purified Bottled Water – 5 gallon and 3 gallon water bottles
Oh,also,check out Penn and Teller selling water from a garden hose to Libs in California on YouTube.
Pure Schadenfreude.
Got me by 5 minutes,pal.
Glacier water is supreme! Evian water has been my choice for a decade.
That's Kool-Aid, not bottled water.
I like Crystal Geyser, It’s bottled up near where I go fishing each year.
From your tap! Unless you live in LA!
Ground water frequently is filtered through thousands of feet of untouched sand and surface water must be filtered through river rounded rock filters or similar synthetic filtering mechanisms. Water district water supplies must comply with Clean Water Act and numerous other state and local regulations.
The least expensive way of delivering the cleanest water is by pipeline.
There are far more chances for biological contamination and viral infection from drinking water which has been stagnant and not exposed to radiation to kill microbes than from fresh water through piped systems which have only been out of the ground for 1-7 days.
If you want the riskiest water, at the most expensive price, buy water from New Zealand which has been bottled and shipped half way around the globe, only to sit in a market display with rodents running on their bottle tops at night for a month or two after sitting in a warehouse for another several months awaiting customs inspection.
To me second only to their “Recycling” gag....
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The taxpayers spend millions on the public water systems, yet these scam artists have some of them thinking bottled water is better. Bottle your own, right outa the tap.
Incomprehensible gibberish. Were you sober when you typed this?
I found some good bottled water - and it’s inexpensive.
A few months ago I was out and thirsty. Forget the old public drinking fountain. I had to buy a bottle of water. When I got home I rinsed it out with hot water and refilled it from my tap. I now have a bottle of good, clean, tasty water to take with me in case I need it. If I want a drink of water at home I have it - and letting it set open before refrigerating lets the chlorine escape.
Can you say Falls Lake?
And last summer, during a serious drought, when residents of Raleigh were forbidden to water lawns and shrubs/plants/gardens—guess what? Did Pepsi have to stop bottling water from the same resevoir that the peasants use/were forbidden to use—even if they had a commercial greenhouse/shrub and or tree farm? No way, Jose. Money talks.
Question: Does anyone know how clean is distilled water in the gallon jug from the grocery store? What about the water marketed for babies, in jugs?
It's from Lake Michigan and then filtered, and filtered and filtered - it tastes great. And 'luckily' (thank you oh great one King Daley) 15 years years ago we were able to get on that pipeline (goodbye nasty village well water, goodbye water softener costs).
So I take a bottle that the wife buys wastes our money on, drink that junk - then refill it with tap water.
Never mind. I looked at a jug of distilled I got from walmart, it’s from Quincy Ill muni water system. States: “Reverse osmosis, distillation, microfiltration, ozonation.”
Must be fairly pure.
Do you have sense of humor?
Or do you police threads when YOU’RE drunk?
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