There are three types of water you can drink at home; tap, bottled spring/mineral water and purified water like aquathin. Each has its pros and cons.
Tap water is surface water from the land that has been stored in reservoirs and then filtered and chlorinated to remove pollutants, before pumping through our water pipes. Potentially it is dirty water and has been cleaned up and its quality can vary dramatically. It is cheap though and readily available.
Bottled spring and mineral water costs about 700 times more than tap water. Spring water started out as rain water that seeped through rocks and resurfaces as a spring. Water labelled as spring water can be almost any water that bubbles to the surface and meets minimal bacterial standards. Natural mineral water however has to confirm to tighter standards requiring that is comes from ‘a naturally protected source of constant composition’ and must be ‘free from all traces of pollution’ without the need for any purification.
Sparkling water has generally had carbon dioxide bubbled through it unless it is one of the few labelled ‘natural sparkling water’ which are generally less fizzy.
Purified water is tap water that has been filtered at home, by a simple jug filter that will remove only some chlorine and large particles, or in store with a more sophisticated system like Aquathin that removes almost all pollutants and indeed and indeed most of the minerals. Planet Organic have Aquathin machines in TCR and WG.
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