where do bottled water come from?

Answer 1

Truth is, there’s a good chance that fancy water you’ve just forked out a buck for comes from just the same place — a municipal water supply.

Where does that bottled water come from?
It is estimated that about 25 percent of the bottled waters consumed in the U.S. come from municipal water supplies. Most goes through significant processing such as reverse osmosis, deionization, activated carbon filtration and other treatments.

Read the label carefully. If it is packaged as "purified" or "drinking water," chances are it came from a municipal water supply, and unless the water has been “substantially” altered, it must state on the label that the water comes from a municipal source.

Often images on the label show mountains, snow or other bodies of water. For example, the label design on Aquafina (from Pepsi) gives me the feeling of mountains and snow; implying that Aquafina may be from a mountain spring, rather than bottled at Pepsi plants using processed municipal water. Coke’s Dasani, also one of the leading bottled water brands is processed municipal water with added minerals. Many gallon jug waters are also from municipal sources.

And just what is “natural” water?
The word "natural" is only allowed for bottled water, which is derived from springs or wells where the natural chemical (mineral and trace elements) composition of the water has not been altered as a result of treatment process.

Answer 2

We just had a guest speaker from the Water Co. and she told us some local expensive bottled water is the same water you can get for free from the tap.

Answer 3

A water bottling plant! Muppet, if you mean where does the water in bottles come from that is an entirely different question , depends on what type of water, mineral, domestic, carbonated, still, flavoured etc

Answer 4

One of the largest bottled water suppliers uses NY-city tap water. many use reverse osmoses on the local tap water.

Answer 5

I've seen a few articles about this - half of the time it's from the local tap!
If it's from a spring, it will say on the bottle, if it doesn't, they turn on the local spigot and push it out.

Answer 6

What is bottled water?

Bottled water is any water that is sold by the bottle. The bottle might be as small as 4 ounces or as large as 5 gallons. Most bottled water comes in plastic bottles.

Where does bottled water come from?

We visited the Mountainwood Spring Water Company. They sell spring water to other bottled water companies like Culligan. We found out that spring water is a big business. The spring at Mountainwood is part of a 75 acre, wooded property and has been used for its spring water for the past twenty-five years. The owner said that the spring water comes from a very deep aquifer under his land. The water came naturally to the surface and was there when he bought the land. More on this story http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/00222/bottled.htm

4. Where does bottled water come from? Are some bottled waters simply tap water in a bottle?

Many bottled waters come from natural sources like springs or wells that originate from deep within the earth. These protected sources are inspected, tested, and certified by the state or country of origin to be of sanitary quality. These bottled waters do not come from surface water sources where certain types of organisms may be found.

Bottled water may also come from treated municipal supplies.

The quality of bottled water is assured through the multi-barrier process and reaches the consumer sealed in containers, where as tap water travels though miles of public water pipes before reaching the end user. Unwanted elements, such as lead, may not be present at the municipal source or show up during inspection at the water treatment plan, but they could be present when the water comes out of one's tap. More on this story http://www.waterboy.com/pages/faq.html#from

Answer 7

The bottle will tell you the source.

Answer 8

Dasani is London tap water

Answer 9

normal water is treated and then put to the bottle. well, i'm not sure. they mayb just tap water

Answer 10

It comes from some guy in pittsburgh who's filling up those bottles in his tub....