Ques re bottled water

cubix

Wasn't sure where to put this
Where we are living the tap water recently seems to be on the blink. IF there not shuting it down there seems to be all sorts of brown gunk coming out of it. So had a quick look in the likes of Dunnes/lidl etc at the likes of their 2 and 5ltrs of water which all seem to be reasonable. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between mineral and spring water. I understand advertising can be a little over the top but lidl do a 2ltr bottle of what they call "Still Irish Spring Water" which they say is bottled from the Park Spring Source in Ireland. Wouold I be presuming right that bottled water would be better regulated than tap water.

Cubix

sully-gormo

well if you buy bottled water, id be pretty certain that its safe for drinking. Im not sure if theres laws or regulation but the idea that bottled water would be unsafe is preetty ludicrous. As regards mineral or spring water, theyre the same afaik.

iregk

In other words we have a factory hooked up to the mains in the south of france where we filter the water before bottling it and tell people its filtered through volcanic rock and sh!t. People go nuts and buy it!

All that crap about bottled at source. Have you ever seen a water source/spring? The water peters out! The likes of Evian and Ballygowan who sells thousands/millions of bottles per day expect us to believe that they got a million bottles out of this small source?

Chances are its all the same and comes from a standard water mains and refiltered.

rubadub

I would imagine spring water would legally have to come from a spring at some stage. Mineral water is simply water with minerals, whether natural or added. So you could distill dog urine and get water, then add a little table salt and call it mineral water.
Coca-cola got in some bother about their branded water, as it was simply filtered tap water (like they make their coke with). I think then they added some minerals. Minerals give it a nicer taste, distilled water has no minerals and is not that palatable (totally tastless)

abetarrush

There was a funny video about Bottled Vs Tap

and they had water tasting, of these mad waters from France, but it was actually out of a garden hose. And the guy tastin it was sayin it was lovely

iregk

I think the coca cola one caused a big stir as they claimed all sorts of things. It enhanced healthy growth, staved off different illness and contained all these new revolutionary minerals and additives when in fact it didn't. It was simply water coming from the mains.