Tap Water vs Bottled Water: Some Facts
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Reasons do vary like taste preference, quality concerns, and prevention of diseases etc but people in both developed and developing countries prefer to drink bottled water.All the drinking water comes either from surface sources such as rivers and lakes or from underground sources such as wells and deep bores and travels to your home through a pipe. Safe drinking water is essential to good health as contaminated water may pose several health risks.
Taste and Quality:
- Taste and quality of water vary among sources, method of water treatment, locations and suppliers.
- Presence of small amounts of few minerals /contaminants don't make drinking water unsafe as few minerals (Ca & Mg) are required by body in small amounts and they provide a distinct taste to water
- However, levels of essential minerals and other contaminants higher than the prescribed limits set by the regulating agencies may be harmful vto human health.
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Sources of Bottled Water:
- underground aquifer,
- bore well,
- well,
- rivers
- a spring.
Types of Bottled water:
1. Mineral water – It is said to contain naturally occurring dissolved minerals ( 250 ppm or more of total dissolved solids).
2. Purified water - It is free of chemicals and germs and can't have more than 10 ppm of total dissolved solids.It requires to undergo the process of distillation or reverse osmosis. In reverse osmosis, water is forced under pressure to pass through a membrane that do not allow to pass the contaminants like microbes, minerals, color, turbidity, organic and inorganic chemicals.
3. Sterile water - It is free from all microbes or germs.
4. Distilled water - Water is distilled using the process of distillation. In distillation process, water is boiled and the steam is condensed to remove natural minerals and other contaminants like metal, and salts etc. Boiling temperature kills most of the germs including the Cryptosporidium.
5. Drinking water – It may contain only safe and suitable disinfectants like fluoride within prescribed limits.
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Preference for Bottled Water:
Bottled water is generally preferred by majority due to its taste difference to tap water. Tap water is generally treated by disinfectants such as Chlorine with high concentration to have its effect for a longer time as supply water has to run in the pipes for a considerable time. Taste of bottled water is different from tap water due to the source of water. Source of water mainly influences the taste of water due to minerals present or dissolved in the drinking water.
Disinfectants used for water treatment:
- chlorine (used to disinfect tap oer supply water )
- chloramine (used to disinfect tap or supply water)
- ozone, or ultraviolet light to disinfect bottled water
How safe is Bottled water? It depends on several factors like:
- Source of bottled water: It can come either from a surface (river or stream) or a ground water source (well or spring),
- Surface water has more vulnerability for contamination
- Ground water as a source doesn't completely rules out possibilities of contaimination
- Ground water can also have high amounts of contaiminants like radioactive elements, arsenic, industrial waste, septic water etc.
- It is also important to know that how the water has been treated before bottling.
- Labels on the bottles should indicate type of water like spring/mineral/ drinking water etc
- Bottled water must meet the regulatory standards
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Great HUB.
Bottled Water really does has some issues and so does the tap water. It becomes a great difficulty to families out there who are trying to find out what the best remedy for protecting their family should be; tap water? Bottled Water? Or some may be wondering, How else can we get the BEST WATER for cheap? And we've got just that.
Great point dmitriy. There is a lot of research and things to consider here. You can save a lot on bottled and prevent any bad plastic debris from the water bottle from getting into your system by installing a water filter to purify your tap.
Hi, everybody!
Along with the taste,chemical and phisical properties of water, there is anotherside of the problem which is not fully estimatedyet. It is the waterstructure. It should be as close to the structural state of the inner water of human organism as possible. If othervise, the assimilation of the unstructured water will reqire a lot of energy.
C V Singh Hub Author 20 months ago
Thanks elielarrey for information about difficulties people face in making decision for type of water and usefulness of this hub in this context. Dmitry, your point is convincing but I'm not aware if scientists has so far considered this point or not. I'll be happy if some information is made available on this aspect. Thanks Mark for thinking problem from another angle to avoid pollution from plastic debris. Discussion is getting interesting.