Actual flowchart for turnkey mineral water processing plant
Tap water beats top brands at Decanter tasting – decanter.com – the route to all good wine — Does this actually surprise anyone?
A glass of tap water has been rated superior to mineral waters costing thousands of times as much in a Decanter blind tasting.
Decanter’s panel – made up of Masters of Wine, top sommeliers and some of the most experienced palates in the country – voted the tap water supplied by utility company Thames Water third equal in a tasting of 24 waters.
The top-scoring water was Waiwera, from New Zealand, which sells for £9 a litre at Claridges. This was followed by Vittel, £0.39 in Tescos.
Joint third was Thames Water’s standard tap water, drawn from a kitchen tap in South Kensington, London, costing less than one penny (£0.09918) per litre.
related FDA appraisal of tap water
#20 – Catshit,
Yup. You’re correct. Even so though, if your water tastes bad, it’s still likely to be fine from health perspective, especially if it’s town water not well water. Try a pitcher or faucet filter. If that still doesn’t solve the problem, at least consider getting a water cooler to waste fewer plastic bottles.
If you can avoid it though, drinking tap water is still most likely healthier for you and for the environment.
Imagine all of the bottles lasting forever, many of them just floating around in the doldrums of the ocean.
Imagine an incredibly long convoy of diesel powered tractor trailors carting in water from far away.
Imagine another equally long convoy of garbage trucks carting away the plastic.
Even if the bottles are “recycled”, they’re not glass or aluminum. They are not endlessly recyclable. They will be made into fleece or other garments. When thrown away, those will sit in landfills until the planet is engulfed by the sun. Plastics cause health problems. Plastics are forever (or, at least as forever as our planet, so close enough).
The only advantage of true spring water is that it is free of the antibiotics, hormones and other prescription drugs that the public utility water system is unable to filter out.
Of course once you put it in a plastic bottle, then the plasticizer leaches out into the liquid, making it toxic.