If you want to lower your water use, a good place to start is in the bathroom. Bottled water is subject to fewer regulations than water from a municipal water system. It is not necessary to use bottled water if the drinking water meets all federal and state drinking water standards. Loveland's water meets or exceeds all standards. Some bottlers of water simply fill the bottles with municipal drinking water.
Bottled water is useful to use during an emergency.
Compared to City drinking water, bottled water is very expensive. One gallon of water from the City costs less than a penny. For fun, let's look at a year's supply of drinking water. Health and wellness programs recommend that an adult drink two quarts of water each day. To meet the health and wellness recommendations, that amounts to 730 quarts a year or 183 gallons.