Bottled Water

[IggyB]

How much healthier can you get than bottled water? so whats this i'm told about the plastic on the bottle causing cancer... and how come everything everywhere seems to cause cancer these days... how have we all go this far... I'M SCARED

[BadBob]

They did think it caused cancer but this has since been proved to be false. It was even in Mens Health here's a link http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoax5.asp?H
Name=Plastic++Water+Bottles+Scarelore

[geofbob]

It isn't the plastic bottle you should be scared about, but the water itself. Several surveys have found that many brands of bottled water are more impure than tap water. See, for example, the bottle water section on the following website http://www.eternalwater.com.au/other.htm

[IggyB]

what a relief no problem with plastic bottles... just water i've got to watch out for then!

[darth vader]

correct. You're more likely (depending on what part of the country you're from) to get healthier water out of the tap, than from bottled water

[Bert]

Darth vader is right. The legal standards for tap water are higher than those for bottled water. That does not necessarily mean that all bottled water has more bugs than tap water, it just means that it is legally allowed to. Even if it did have the maximum bug count, it would still be "safe", otherwise "they" would have set a lower limit.