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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