Selecting safe bottled water

Can’t stand ozarka taste. Love ice mountain and evian.

They only sell ice mountain in midwest though.

I had no idea why ozarka tastes so dirty until recently someone said its the minerals that cause a taste in some waters.

 

Evian, app 12 yrs ago got caught by U.S. military for using tap water instead of spring water.

The U.S. military tests the food, water used by the military. Evian supplies water to U.S. troops abroad.

 

Most tap water is likely better than most spring water.

 

A lot of terms and definitions are being thrown around here, including by the original post.
Bottled water is a generic term which tells you absolutely nothing. The contents could be anywhere from distilled with no minerals to some spring water from half way around the world.
Bottled water marketed for human consumption could be water from a municipal water source, filtered with minerals added for taste. Or it could be water directly from a spring, sometimes altered, sometimes not.
When I lived in the Lehigh Valley PA, Nestle opened up 2 bottling plants, now using a fleet of about 75 tanker trailers using spring water from my home town of New Tripoli PA, marketed under various brand names, the most common being Deer Park. They wanted to build the bottling plant right a the base of the Blue Mountain where the spring was drilled, but the town wouldn't not give them the permits. They did get a permit from the PA EPA to extract up to 250,000 gallons a day (that is 31 full tanker loads, more than 1 every hour) and trucked it about 15 miles from spring to bottling plant.
But that was not near enough to serve the plants. They also bottle various water that is simply from the Allentown PA municipal supply, filtered and add minerals to taste. The origin of the water and what has been done to it is on the label.
If you don't trust it, I suggest you go as far away from civilized society as possible, I am thinking the Yukon in Canada drill a well and drink that. But it will flunk your test also.

 

I get my water from the hose at the fuel island.

 

I saw a guy try that when it was 26 degrees. I'd rather not at any time, but good luck in that weather.

 

"Drinking water" generally has "minerals added to enhance taste", they all do this to "drinking water" and say so on the label, not just Ozarka.

Ozarka drinking water and Ozarka spring water are two different animals but this can be said of virtually all brands. Nothing wrong with either but I prefer the spring water (Piney Wood Springs sourced Hawkins, TX - (Most Texas and Oklahoma retailers)), for drinking straight or making coffee

Reverse osmosis water is the one I refuse to drink or even use for coffee. It's completely stripped of minerals and beneficial trace elements and ions that make water what water is supposed to be to sustain life. Granted, RO also removes bad substances that may or may not exist originally, but so does distillation and charcoal