Turning the taps on bottled water

July 3rd, 2006

I’ll be the first to admit that I have often bought a bottle of mineral water - particularly if it is sparkling.

Well it must be good for you surely.

It costs at least £1 (almost $2) per bottle, looks healthy in well designed packaging and tempts you with enticing descriptions about how it is naturally filtered by age old rocks in far flung places.

Water from a tap, on the other hand, should really only be used for washing things like vegetables. You don’t drink it do you?

Well actually if you live in the UK, you should as its been found to be as healthy, and far cheaper, than bottled water. Test carried out on drinking water straight from a tap, around various parts of the UK showed that 99.96 percent of the samples met the stringent UK and European water quality standards.

Not only is the water quality as good, but when you look at the cost differences, it is staggering. It would cost about £1 per YEAR for a person to drink eight glasses of tap water per day, whereas it would cost over £500 (about $800) to drink the same quantities of bottled water.

So in future I will fill up a bottle of water from the tap and take it to the gym, rather than paying exorbitant amounts for bottled water.

I know tap water quality various tremendously from country to country, but maybe you should at least consider tap water if your supplies are meeting good health standards. And you could save a whole year of gym membership fees at the same time!

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