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Bottled water - the best?

Which is the best bottled water and which is your favourite? Is bottled water any better than ordinary tap water? So difficult to choose the best - is it Evian, San Pellegrino, Volvic, Perrier or Ty Nant?

Gerry Tan ● 4338d5 Comments

All that unnecessary packaging when tap water may be better for you.I always ask for tap water.I understand that bottled water may often have a rather high salt content which isn't recommended for many people.

Philippa Bond ● 4338d

You could try Perrier flavoured with benzene.

Fred Hunt ● 4338d

Rather reminds me of the debacle of Dasani bottled water which was launched with much fanfare by the Coca Cola Company.This 'pure spring water' was withdrawn after it emerged that the source for Dasani was mains water supplied to Coca-Cola's factory in Sidcup, south east London.Turn on the tap, what comes out of it is probably far more rigourously tested than most bottled waters.

Nigel Brooks ● 4338d

I sense the logic in what you say about bottles water Gerald. Some things about clean mountain streams and spring water that worry me - what about the mountain goats and other hilltop animals peeing in those pristine water sources? And then the restauranteurs have the cheek to charge me £2.75 for a bottle of branded water - worrying.

Gerry Tan ● 4338d

I guess from an environmental point of view, the correct answer is "none" - all that plastic and energy going into shipping water from somewhere else for you to spend money on when you could get safe, clean water free from your own (or restuarant) tap.If you do drink it (which I do occasionally) then it is only for taste, for which the answer will vary per person (hence there are so many around).  Personally I drink San Pellegrino with meals instead of wine (when I'm not having wine, that is :-) ) as it has the right sort of dry, minerally, slightly astringent taste to act as a make-do bubbly.  But that's just me.As long as you don't in any way kid yourself that any of these are 'good for you' with essential minerals or whatnot - that's just marketing, and they're all just water with miniscule differences in pH and other elements.

Gerald Cabb ● 4338d