What is the usual difference between tap water, and water from the store. Also consider well water.?

Question

Let's compare city water with a generic brand of bottled water, spring, distilled whatever. A third variable is country water, straight from the aquifer.

Answer 1

There is a man whom has reached a certain level of perfection, Adrian Monk. He drinks bottled water called sierra spings. That is the best bottle water you can get. The water meets his specifications.
Other wise bottle water does not have any values it could be distilled factory worker urine.
Tap water is typically treated with chlorine and enriched with fluoride.
Well water varies on location. If you live in africa it's going to be real good. If you live in america it probably has a confidential chemical that will cause your life span to shorten.

Answer 2

They can be the same thing and the exact same thing if you use a filtration device on your tap water. That's right, some use just filtrated tap water and sell it for a buck a bottle. Well water can be labled spring water because spring water comes from an underground source that water to is purified before sent to the tap or the bottle.

What makes river water taste sweet is the high dirt content that contains iorn (iorn tastes sweet especially if a person doesn't have enough of it). If you get a clear jug and put it in the stream and let it settle, you will see how much dirt is in it. There isn't any dirt in store bough bottled water.

Answer 3

Tap water or town water will almost always be chlorinated and in some places fluoridated. Bottled water should not contain chlorine or fluoride but should be sterile. Bore or well water can contain dissolved solids such as carbonates and some metals. This will depend on the properties of the aquifer. In India some places well water contains arsenic which is causing major health problems in the poor rural areas. You should try to avoid drinking well water until you have tested it for bacteria (fecal coliforms) and dissolved metals as well as pH.

Answer 4

Tap water can taste good, yucky, gross, over-chemicaled, etc. Spring water can be good, sweet, contain contamination's and poisons. Sweet can mean arsenic, but not always. Distilled water should be tasteless, bland, but metal and most pollutions free.
Aquifer water can be clean or nasty, depending a lot on whether mining is nearby.
Bottled water, you take your chance. It could be some town or city's tap water. It costs way more than it is worth and most of the time. it's just not much more than a yuppie/liberal trap to get their money.

Answer 5

it all has to do with mineral content. i have well water and when there's a drought it smells bad and tastes worse because the sulfer in the ground here. different regions, different mineral content, different taste.also filtration method counts carbon filtered water taste different than other filtration methods