All types of water including tap water, bottled water and filtered water can be good, however they all have their quircks and limitations that you should be aware of.

Depending where you are located, tap water can have quite a lot of impurities and various contaminants. It is loaded with pesticide, chlorine, various heavy metals, microbes and other bad stuff for people to digest. Also in some places you will find that the tap water just doesn't taste as great as you'd like it to. Most people already know that the tap water is the least pure of the three types and many stay away from it unless they boil the water.

Because of all the diseases people tend to get from drinking tap water, they usually buy the bottled type as it is much safer and it tastes better too.

It has been put forward the fact that the liquid in the bottles is just repackaged tap water, but in most cases this is just not true. Although it starts out as coming from the tap, the liquid that is in the bottles to be found in the shops has been purified through various levels. Even when you talk about spring or mineral water that comes from natural sources it is cleaned, purified and treated to be safe for general consumption.

There have been cases of cross-contamination with swimming pools or various other external sources and that can always happen. However most of the times this is not the case. Also many companies that are selling bottled water are actually members of IBWA (International Bottled Water Association), which is an organization that has very strict and severe rules for producing safe and pure water. In order to keep their membership alive, members have to undergo yearly, unannounced inspection visits from the main plants to ensure that the water is pure at all times.

Also you will find that water that is bottled tastes much better than the tap variety. This is because it contains no harmful chemicals or impurities and as it has been infused with oxygen, the taste is greatly enhanced.

Another issue people have with it are the bottles themselves. Plastic material is recently considered hazardous to our environment and with good reason. However the plastic bottles can be entirely crushes and can be recycled, so they should not pose any environmental risks to the people.

To enhance the cleanness of it many people lately use purifying techniques or a countertop water cooler. This simply gives additional peace of mind to families with children and sick people around. As a matter of fact if you drink purified water you will notice that this tastes really the best of all. First of all the bottled liquid is already cleaned of impurities, however having the additional treatment in place through distillation or reverse osmosis or other purification treatments, it is practically 98% free of all bacteria and unwanted chemicals. This is truly the water that anyone should expect to drink every day.