[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I'm drinking bottled water right now. But I bottle it myself. I am the operator of a water company. The EPA makes us chlorinate our water. Luckily for me, I can go to the plant, turn on a well, and use a raw water tap to fill my jugs. It's so much better than the treated water!
Before the EPA stepped in and mandated treatment, the Ohio Department of Health told us our water was “pure, required no treatment, and was some of the best water in the state,” We had customer complaints for years after we were required to add chlorine!
So,,, what I'm getting at, is that the water that comes out of the taps is not the same water that comes out of the aquifer. So if the company is not treating the bottled water, or if it is treating it in a different manner, there could be quite a difference.

[Gondring]

I hope that your aquifer is well protected (being in Ohio, you likely have a good glacial till aqitard, but depends on where you are, and even that can't protect against lateral migration toward your pumping centers).

Too many good aquifers are being destroyed...I fear that a few decades from now, Americans won't know the taste of good, clean natural water, much like we don't know the taste of a banana of yesteryear (that species went extinct, and now we eat a lesser one).