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DearDoctor: Bottled Water -- Health or Hype?
Published August 7, 2012
Water is essential to all living things. It's the reason there's life on our planet and not on others. And we Americans are lucky to live in a part of the world where good drinking water is abundant — and virtually free. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average cost for water supplied to a U.S. home in 2009 was about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons.
Yet many of us will pay that same amount, or a lot more, for a single bottle of commercially produced water that's not necessarily any better than tap water. In fact, bottled water often actually is tap water — sometimes purified, sometimes not. In many cases, there's just no way of knowing.
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http://www.deardoctor.com/articles/bottled-water/