{Bottled Water VS Tap Water}

Water has always been essential to our body’s system and our survival, but lately, it has become one of the most recent fitness crazes as people all over the world seek to increase the certified health benefits of drinking enough amounts of water. Although people used to rely largely upon tap water to fulfill their daily share of drinking water, in the last two decades, consumers have begun to move away from this water source, due to such public health scares as the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidium outbreak that infected more than 400,000 city residents. Bottled water companies, promising a purer, healthier water product than tap water, have expanded greatly in order to supply growing demands for quality drinking water. NRDC conducted a four-year review of the bottled water industry and the safety standards that govern it, including a comparison of national bottled water rules with national tap water rules, and independent testing of over 1,000 bottles of water. Our conclusion is that there is no assurance that just because water comes out of a bottle it is any cleaner or safer than water from the tap. And in fact, an estimated 25 percent or more of bottled water is really just tap water in a bottle and is sometimes further treated, but then again maybe not. If bottled water does not necessarily offer purer water than tap water, surely it provides a better tasting water product, right? The answer to this question is no. Bottled water does not always taste better than tap water. While taste is certainly highly subjective, this study shows that bottled water essentially holds nothing over tap water. Bottled water is no purer than tap water, and it may not even taste better. So next time you go all out to buy you some purer, more crisp water, don't spend your dollar or more on something that u can drink out of your faucet at home. :)

Vocabulary :
Essential - important factor to the body to sustain life
Demand - need for more of the product
Purer - cleaner than that of many

If you want to learn more about this subject go to the ABC News website.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/Story?id=728070&page=1