by Svetlana Konnikova

Today I was in supermarket buying spring water. I put in my cart two gallons of Zephyrhills spring water. A woman in her late thirties grabbed from the shelf two gallons of Zephyrhills drinking water, smiled and said to me,

“I see, you buy Zephyrhills spring water. Why? What is the difference?”

“Spring water comes from a source as a natural spring.” I answered her. “Drinking water” is tap water. So why do you buy this water if you already have it in your house?”

“Good question.” She replied.

She was very surprised and immediately put back her gallons with drinking water and took instead two gallons with spring water.

“Thank you for telling me,” she  said. “I never thought about it. I tried to save money by buying the drinking water instead of spring water. Now I know.”

Pennies in savings will not make you rich, but good quality, pure water can help detox your body and prevent sicknesses.

Tap water in our houses is much cheaper than in supermarkets. Don’t think it is free. Every two months you get in a mail the bills for water consumed. Thus, if you buy drinking water in a supermarket, you pay twice for just fancy tap water that you already have in your houses. Water bottling companies even don’t deny that the gallons with drinking water can be filled with the same tap water we have in our houses. So, why to bother and go to the supermarket?

Numerous plastic bottles and plastic gallons with “drinking water,” “purified water,” or “distilled water” are offered for sale everywhere. But how we know what is safer and  better in quality? Why water bottling manufacturers don’t indicate on their labels that water comes from public source?  If  it is tap water, it should be acknowledged on the label. Go to any supermarket in Germany or France, buy any bottle of water and read this acknowledgment of sources with date of best use and date when this water was tested.

Tip: Buy spring water from a well known source. If it is labeled as drinking, purified, distilled or carbonated, don’t buy.

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