The following is a direct Question and Answer from the city of Madison water utility page. All information can be found directly on
http://www.cityofmadison.com/water/.
Q: What is the best choice of drinking water: bottled or tap water?
A: The answer is clear: tap water! That's because our water is of excellent quality,
strictly monitored, and affordable.
When we look at issues such as quality, monitoring and
affordability, we see that bottled water doesn't always make the grade.
For instance, some brands may be of excellent quality, but others can
have inferior quality or they may be simply taken from municipal water
supplies. And all bottled waters are expensive. For the price of one
small bottle of water, you would be able to buy about 680 gallons of
Madison tap water.
Another important fact: there are fewer government regulations to
guide the bottled water industry. Monitoring requirements aren't as
stringent as are those for tap water. For quality, consistency and
affordability, tap water wins every time.
So there you have it! Tap wins over bottled water every time so make the switch today.
Annie Leonard:
Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you
imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $
10,000 sandwich?
