Experts suggest that you check bottle labels carefully concerning the water source and type of processing before you choose a brand of bottled water. You should also ask the bottling company for the results of the latest content and quality tests. Perhaps most important of all, you should check the quality of your tap water. Its quality just might be equal to or higher than that of the bottled drinking water. You should also check your budget.
Bottled water costs many times more than tap water.
The average cost of a gallon of tap water is less than a half a cent. If your doctor has recommended a low-salt diet and your city water supply is high in salt content. If the taste, smell, or appearance of your city water makes drinking water and other drinks made with water distasteful. If your city supply is temporarily affected by natural or manmade disaster. Three disasters in the summer of 1980 sent Texans scurrying for bottled water.