How To Find Pure Drinking Water

How to find pure drinking water can be a challenge. A lot of companies are promoting pure drinking water that may possibly be just tap water.  Bottled water, spring water and reverse osmosis filtered water may not be any better than plain tap water right out of your kitchen faucet.   Where is the best source for pure drinking water?

Start at Home

A good home filtration system will save money and have a product with known quality. The best systems also provide a healthy mineral balance, so it tastes fresh and is good for you health.

Contaminant Danger in Water

Everyone deserves pure drinking water, but the chemicals and pollutants that we have put into our environment make it impossible to find it in a naturally occurring state.  Even spring-water now has to be tested before use.  At one time that was really pure drinking mineral water, but since the ground is polluted, so may be the spring.  The source is originally rain-water, so it will pick up pollutants along the way.

Tap Water May Not Be Safe

Many people trust the treatment facilities to provide them with pure drinking water.  But, the standards they have set for themselves and those set for them by state, local and federal authorities are largely inadequate.  They allow many potentially harmful contaminants to remain.  Many other contaminants get in as water travels through the pipes and into your kitchen.  To assume that what comes out of the tap is “pure” is a mistake, it isn’t even safe.

Mineral Water Solution?

Pure drinking mineral water is the latest fad.  Bottles are being sold by the dozen, causing more pollution and filling up the landfills.  Is it better for you health?  Not really.  It’s better than distilled, but that’s about it.

Many of you may not realize it, but the bottles of pure drinking water that you are buying came from a faucet.  There are still a couple of companies that use spring-water, but even that has to be run through a purifier.  Plus, as it sits in the bottle, it absorbs chemicals from the plastic. 

After all these years, the ultimate in pure drinking mineral water is still Perrier.  The source is still a French spring.  It is a good source of calcium and other minerals, in trace amounts.  But, even they took to offering plastic, as opposed to glass bottles in 2001.  It took the company 11 years to decide on a type of polymer that would not alter the taste and still keep the natural carbonation.   

It’s nice for an occasional treat, but you need to drink at least 36 ounces of pure drinking water per day, so Perrier should not be the only thing that you drink.  Carbonation causes excessive gas and other gastrointestinal issues. 

Water Quality and Your Health

You can never be sure about the quality of what is in the bottle, just as you can never be sure of what is coming out of your tap, unless you get it tested.  But, if you have a filtration system with certified performance then you can rest assured that your family is actually getting clean, pure drinking water.  You’ll save money, in the long run.  See my website for more information. .-Larry L. Taylor