Bottled Water is Usually Just Tap Water

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I have been drinking bottled water for a long time. Now this came across.

Do you trust tap water?

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(NaturalNews) Many Americans buy bottled water across the United States

every day; this practice stems from the belief that drinking more water is

good for a person. Yes, water is truly the best thing a person could ever

drink, but bottled water is not the best way to do it. In fact, drinking

bottled water is a bad idea. There are several reasons why people should

stop drinking bottled water now.

Bottled Water is Usually Just Tap Water

That's right. Bottled water, most of the time, is simply tap water

<http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html> from whatever municipality the

bottling company is located in. Sometimes it's purified and filtered;

sometimes it's not.

Why would a person want to spend a dollar or two on water that comes

straight out of the faucet? At the very least, when a person pours water out

of his own tap, he usually knows what's in his city's water, and he can

filter it before drinking <http://www.naturalnews.com/drinking.html> it.

But there are no labels on bottled water

<http://www.naturalnews.com/bottled_water.html> that report to consumers

what is in the city water poured into a bottle.

Bottled Water Harms the Environment

Here's a frightening fact: 2.5 million plastic bottles

<http://www.naturalnews.com/plastic_bottles.html> are thrown away every

hour in the United States. Yes, 2.5 million an hour. Imagine how that amount

contributes to swelling landfills as well as the ever-growing plastic vortex

in the Pacific Ocean.

Drinking water in one's kitchen from a cup produces little waste in regard

to the environment <http://www.naturalnews.com/the_environment.html> . But

if a person consumed all her daily water from bottles, imagine how quickly

that would add up. Bottled water is bad for the planet.

Drinking Bottled Water Exposes Consumers to Harmful Chemical

No, that chemical doesn't come from the water; it comes from the plastic.

Many plastic bottles contain the chemical bisphenol A, also known as BPA,

which can leach into the water in the bottle.

Why is this a problem? Studies indicate that BPA exposure

<http://www.naturalnews.com/exposure.html> is toxic and exposure can cause

myriad health <http://www.naturalnews.com/health.html> problems and can

wreak havoc on hormone levels. The FDA is, in typical fashion, moving slowly

on the issue, so it is up to consumers to keep themselves safe.

Buying Bottled Water Puts More Money into the Pockets of Big Business

<http://www.naturalnews.com/Big_Business.html>

Do people really want to hand over their primary drinking source to big

business <http://www.naturalnews.com/business.html> ? It's one thing when a

company supplies a product and then tries to convince consumers they have a

need for it; it's another thing when they take a real need out of people's

hands.

According to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Americans spend

approximately 4 billion dollars a year on bottled water. That money goes

into the pockets of the very companies that also try to hook people on soft

drinks containing caffeine, sugar, and other potentially harmful additives.

But What About Healthful Bottled Water?

Forget " healthy " bottled water. It's a fallacy. Robbins reports that

many of these so-called healthful bottled waters, ones that are marketed as

containing vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplements, are nothing more than

" sugar-water. "

As with any product, a consumer would do best to read the labels

<http://www.naturalnews.com/labels.html> of these kinds of products. When a

water product contains sugar, how healthy can it be for a person? It's not,

no mattered how it's hyped.

Bottled Water is Bad!

It doesn't matter what companies claim; bottled water is a bad idea. People

will be healthier and the environment

<http://www.naturalnews.com/environment.html> will be better cared for if

people don't spend their money on bottled water.