Bottled Water or Tap Water?

Meanwhile, how do we get those eight glasses of water a day, some of it while we’re on the go? 

Bottling your own seems to be the answer. Point-of-use water treatment, with a quality in-home water filtration system, seems to be the most economical and environmentally sensible way to get the healthiest water. 

The best solution is a reverse osmosis water filter, which will eliminate or substantially reduce a wide variety of contaminants, including much of the fluoride and chlorine. It is also the system used by many of the companies that bottle tap water. 

If you have a water softener, be sure to divert the softened water away from the kitchen tap connected to the reverse osmosis system. 

Avoid drinking distilled water as it has the wrong ionization, pH, polarization and oxidation. It will also drain your body of minerals. 

If you live in the country and get your tap water from a well, you have a whole set of other concerns, including farm chemicals and other dangerous materials such as contaminated sludge that could be applied to fields, from antibiotics given to animals that can contaminate farm runoff, from your own septic system, and so on. Be sure your water source is a deep, drilled well, rather than a shallow, dug one. Have the water tested regularly and filter it before use. 

However you improve the quality of water from your tap, you’ll be improving the quality of the environment by avoiding all those plastic bottles.

Learn More 

The Drinking Water Book: How to Eliminate the Most Harmful Toxins from Your Water by Colin Ingram (Celestial Arts, 2006) 

Water and Your Health: Clean Water Is Vital to Your Health by Beatrice Trum Hunter (Basic Health Publications, 2003) 

The Choice Is Clear by Allen E. Banik (Acres USA, 1997)