To look at a bottle of water, you might think it is special water from a spring or some pure source somewhere.
The water that comes out of your tap might smell like bleach, or have a faint discoloration.
This might lead you to believe that the bottled water is healthy and pure and the one you get from your tap is not.
However, all is not as it seems.
So, what is the difference between bottled water and tap water? No matter where your tap water comes from, be it city-serviced or your own well, it is full of contamination.
There are anywhere from 60,000 to 80,000 chemicals in North American drinking water, 21,00 of which are known cancer-causing chemicals.
There are also pesticides and herbicides, lead, mercury, bacteria and other toxins in the water.
Bottled water, for the most part, comes from a tap as well.
There is no magical mountain spring that produces clean and healthy water for the bottling companies.
There are no laws or regulations governing the purity of bottled water.
If it is bottled and sold in the same state, there are no rules at all.
Not to mention, the plastic bottles that it comes in leech toxic chemicals into the water too.
So, bottled water is no better (and often worse) than that from the tap.
So, what is the difference between bottled water and tap water? Probably nothing.
If anything, the polluted tap water may actually be better than the bottled version.
So what are we supposed to drink then? You need to filter all of the water you drink, no matter where it came from.
In fact, you should filter all water that you use for anything really.
Breathing vapor in the shower or water seeping into your skin when bathing can be just as lethal as drinking it.
You will need to find a filtration system that is a multi-layered or multi-phased system that includes a carbon filter, ion exchange and sub micron filtration.
These are the most effective at purifying your water and will get rid of 99% of the unwanted chemicals and toxins.