Bottled drinking water is a scam. Most tap water is cleaner than water that sits in a plastic bottle for weeks or months, leeching chemicals from the plastic. The way bottled water has taken over is a tribute to the brainwashing skills of advertisers, who put fear into everyone's heart about drinking water from the tap. People are so easily led these days, and they can be led to do absurd things.
Myself and my dog drink berkey filtered tap water, straight tap smells like a pubkic swimming pool it has so much chlorine and tap water does not filter out everything.
If chlorine is all you need filtered you can remove chlorine far more inexpensively by adding two drops of hydrogen peroxide to a gallon of tap water. The peroxide reacts with the chlorine to form oxygen and salt. The amount of salt generated is far too little to taste (about the equivalent of a teaspoon of salt in 1,500 gallons of water).
Good tip, I like knowing im removing any trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and whatever else they dont filter at the municipal level is being removed with my berkey. After all, tap water is a business/monopoly and theyre only going to do the minimun required at best.
The only time I drink bottled water is when my water has a boil advisory.
Bottled water is a scam, but properly filtered water is not. Tap water often is contaminated with industrial and agricultural chemicals. When they say it's "safe" they mean the chemicals test lower than the allowable amount according to the EPA, or that the chemicals in the water aren't recognized as harmful. Get yourself a good reverse osmosis unit and keep up on the carbon filters and you won't be drinking any of those chemicals.
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