Some water bottles say they are purified on the label,but others don't.
2007-08-19 16:45:10 · 16 answers · asked by crystal*** 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Of course they do and all the purified water is tap water passed through a purifier similar to that you can buy for your home, except on a commercial scale.
It is a scam on an unprecedented scale.
2007-08-19 16:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there was a thing on the news a few weeks ago about this very thing. There are many companies that have a name with something spring water in it. Yet all it is, is tap watter that has been purified. There are some real spring water companies out there you just have to watch what you buy. I think that the government is trying now to make them say more clearly whether or not their watter is purified tap watter or actual spring water that has been filtered.
2007-08-19 23:56:29 · answer #2 · answered by Prof. Dave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of bottled water is simply tap water.
Even when they say 'purified' they mean the typical treatment that regular tap water goes through.
You'd do better to filter your tap water than to buy bottled water.
2007-08-20 03:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them do. Then they put it through various filtering, purifying and/or distilling processes. Unless it says on the label it comes from a natural spring-it started out as tap water.
2007-08-19 23:52:06 · answer #4 · answered by barbara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's true, and even real spring water is sometimes inferior to tap water. There are very few places in the developed world where tap water is unfit to drink. We live in rural NZ and we drink rain water from our roof. We've never had any health problems from it, even though it's untreated. Bottled water is a scam. In NZ we export ours to Europe and they export theirs to us. Ridiculous. Billions of the bottles, made from fossil fuel, end up in landfill. The only use for bottled water is when there's a civil emergency and tap water is unsafe. Bottling water is probably the world's least environmentally friendly industry after arms manufacture.
2007-08-20 00:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes just look at the contents label
There was a survey done in new york that served tap water in fancy labelled bottles and no one could tell the difference, just think about it, Better using a water filter such as pura tap just as healthy
2007-08-19 23:51:54 · answer #6 · answered by pinktopaz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a Rainsoft water purifier system on my house and love it!~ If I buy bottled water, I buy a reliable brand.
2007-08-19 23:50:38 · answer #7 · answered by MaryBerry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You betcha--people will buy anything--even the same water that they could get at home and bottling companies know this!
I sincerely doubt that any of it comes from the special pristine sources that they claim it does--short of the fact that all water Really is the same anyway, unless it's polluted or mixed with something else!
2007-08-20 05:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by starkneckid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Coke and Pepsi's water are filtered tap water.
They are the two best selling waters on the market.
2007-08-20 00:44:45 · answer #9 · answered by Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was on the TV and in the newspaper in July many of the water sellers are just using city tap water.
2007-08-20 00:09:41 · answer #10 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋