Bottled water vs tap water
1. Are you buying bottled water?
If you are, then I want to explain the quality advantages and cost comparison that will help you save money by owning a Multi-Pure System that provides you with more refreshing, healthier water than bottled water. First what are the:
The benefits
- Easy and convenient to use; provides delicious, clear, healthier drinking water whenever you need it.
- Better-tasting beverages – coffee, tea, juices, and drinks of all kinds.
- Use for food preparation, improving the taste of fruits and vegetables.
- Highest quality water for cooking – better pasta and sauces, soups, etc.
- Better quality water for mixing baby formula and cereal.
- Your pets will love you more for it!
- Guaranteed quality backed by an outstanding 90 day customer satisfaction guarantee.
San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 2007
by David Lazarus (excerpts)
Americans spent an estimated $11 billion last year drinking 8.3 billion gallons of bottled water, according to Beverage Marketing Corp., the leading compiler of facts and figures about the beverage industry. That means the average American consumed almost 28 gallons of bottled water.
So great is our thirst for the stuff that Americans now drink more bottled water than any other commercial beverage except carbonated soft drinks -- more than milk, more than coffee, more than beer. And the trend shows no sign of abating. Within a decade, says Gary Hemphill, managing director of Beverage Marketing Corp. in New York, bottled water could overtake soda as the leading beverage in the United States. (The average American currently drinks more than 50 gallons of soda annually.) "The single biggest factor driving sales of bottled water is health and wellness," he said. "People see it as a healthy alternative." The bottled water industry that takes a free liquid that falls from the sky and sells it for as much as four times what we pay for gas," said Richard Wilk, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University who has studied the bottled-water business.
Bottled water vs Tap water  vs 
Tap Water
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Bottled Water
Regulated by FDA
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Tap water from a public water supply is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency
| | Bottled water is regulated as a food by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
All public water supplies are required by the Safe Drinking Water Act to be tested | |
Exempt water that is packaged and sold within the same state.
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Public water supplies are tested for approximately 95 different contaminants. | | Bacteria of all kind in certain percentages are permitted
| Discipline will be enforced if companies violate drinking water standards.
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If the standards are violated bottled water companies can still sell their bottled water
| Certification is necessary in order to operate the water system.
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Certifiaction is not necessary in order to operate the water system
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Tap water results must be reported to state or federal officials.
| | There are no reporting requirements for bottlers.
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There is a perception that bottled water is “safer than tap water;” however the standards for bottled water, established by the Food and Drug Administration, are very similar to the standards, set by the USEPA, for tap water. In fact, about 25% of bottled water is actually tap water that has been processed and repackaged. Bottled water is expensive; bottled-water prices average about $2.84 per gallon. At that rate, 750 gallons of bottled water would cost $2,132.82. Filtering your own water with a drinking water system is certainly a more economical solution.
IT'S TIME TO RETHINK WHAT YOU DRINK
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MULTI-PURE VS BOTTLED WATER COSTS
COMPARE AND SAVE! 750 gallons of Bottled Water = $2,132.82
750 gallons of Multi-Pure filtered water = $59.95
Cost*
per gallon
Multi-Pure Drinking Water Systems 8¢
Pitchers/Carafes 20¢
Water Vending Machine 25¢
Home Delivered Bottled Water $1.71
Domestic “Purified” Bottled Water $2.23
Imported Bottled Water $3.84
Costs are averaged, based on several
different brands of bottled water.
*Complete cost comparison analysis available on request
750 gallons of water would be equivalent to: Compare those costs to
$59.95 for a Multi-Pure replacement filter
which customers purchase
once a year!
8¢ per gallon  Multitudes of people: professionals, every day ordinary folks and experts already know and are fully aware that tap water has created a huge health problem in this nation. In addition many are becoming more and more aware that bottled water is certainly expensive and has become suspect due to the water and bottles its stored in.
My recommendation: Consider an alternitive to tap water and bottled water by viewing our various water filtration systems to determine which would best suit your own personal needs ClickHere.
Obviously we know the reality of Bottled water vs tap water.
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