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Actually, the bottled water issue is even more complex. A colleague of mine
(now passed away) made it a point to periodically analyze bottled water from
when it first appeared on the market.
His finding - waters from springs (Generally, many of the 'premium' grades,
had the promised 'healthy' minerals. They frequently had worrisome levels of
a variety of trace elements and heavy metals.) As such, tap water was
generally the safer drinking water. My friend was a bit of a health nut and a top
notch chemist. He wouldn't drink bottled water.
Now, many of the chemicals recently reported - the organics and antibiotics,
would not have shown up in his analysis, since he was focused on inorganic
chemicals. Whether these other chemicals were also elevated in spring water
at that time is unknown.
I also remember Consumer's Reports doing similar analyses, concluding New
York tap water was as good, if not better - but again, this was at a time when
the primary concern was about the inorganic minerals in the water.
Jerry
P.S. Even the Lakes in Glacier Park are showing traces of antibiotics and
lots of other chemicals.
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