How does tap water compare with bottled water?
According to a study published in the Archives of Family Medicine (March 2000), you can probably put away your wallet and save your pennies. Tap water is likely to offer you more health benefits and is likely to be more “pure” than most brands of bottled water. The study, conducted in Ohio, compared the levels of bacteria in 57 samples of bottled water vs. tap-water samples collected from four different water-processing plants. Bacterial counts were measured to determine whether they fell within an acceptable range. Bacterial counts in the bottled water samples ranged from less than 0.01 per milliliter to 4,900 per milliliter, whereas the counts in the tap water samples ranged from 0.2 per milliliter to 2.7 per milliliter, a much tighter and more reliable range. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Health Canada, the public water supply in the North America is one of the safest in the world, although the quality does vary by geographic location. (Your plumbin
