[TheTruthAintPretty]

You shouldn't avoid bottled water because of that.

You should avoid it because it is a waste of money. It's usually nothing more than tap water costing 1000% more than if you turn on your faucet.

But if someone wants to blow their money on nasty, stale, plastic-tasting water to promote an image, that's THEIR business.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Bingo.

Let the plastic bottles sit unused very long and you'll have plastic outgassing into your water. It's nasty.

[Campion]

You should avoid it because it is a waste of money. It's usually nothing more than tap water costing 1000% more than if you turn on your faucet.

"Evian" spelled backwards is still ...

[ConsistentLibertarian]

"You should avoid it because it is a waste of money. It's usually nothing more than tap water costing 1000% more than if you turn on your faucet."

That depends. There's no legal restriction on what counts as "Spring Water" -- it could be from a spring that's used to dump pig dung or a spring on land owned by a lead mining company, and hence there's no consistency in the content of bottled "Spring Water" and no minimal gaurantee regarding its purity.

But one can't sell something as "distilled water" unless it is in fact water collected from a distillation process. And distilled water is both uniformly pure -- no two bottles of distilled water differ in their contents, and as pure as water gets. Distilled water far surpasses the quality of tap water as measured both by levels of organic and inorganic compounds as well as by clarity and taste.

It's also usually the cheapest kind of bottled water you can find, perhaps because it's usually sold in bulk -- from 2.5 gallon or 10 liter containers on up, or perhaps because from a marketing point of view "Distilled Water" sounds generic and common, and far less sexy and chick than the competition, or perhaps because people don't understand what distilled water is -- even though it's the kind of thing that's usually covered in HS science courses.

Peace.