Why Should You Care About Drinking Water Quality?

Why, indeed? Because probably, based on your perception of drinking water quality, you take actions or do nothing, without a thought to check your behavior.

In fact, even if you don't care about the quality, you know that the water at the tap is good and safe. But, as you cannot put up with that bad taste, mildly disgusting due to chemical treatments, you are ready to spend what it takes to get better tasting drinking water.

If you dislike tap water you cannot be blamed. Therefore you have probably joined the masses who, for wrong reasons, choose to drink only bottled water, and pay accordingly very large sums of money.

Judging by the amounts of bottled water sold everywhere in the world it would appear that the consumers' confidence in the drinking water quality or taste at the tap is not high to say the least, don't you agree?

Otherwise why should normal people, able to think on their own and capable of taking logical decisions on subjects much more significant than those involving water, be so frightened and uncertain?

Why should they go through the trouble of buying those bottles, of carrying them, of transporting, of storing them in their home or garage, of disposing of the voluminous empty plastic containers, known to be winding up in landfills and further polluting the environment?

In many families this exercise is done regularly, once a week or twice a month. Is the expense negligible? Not at all, it sums up to frightening totals that people don't care to keep track of. Being addicted to bottled water seems a social malaise you cannot eschew, lest you lose your status as a normal person.

The irony is that many authoritative reports found that the quality of bottled water is practically indistinguishable from that of tap water. Maybe that people do not agree, because they may judge by the taste, which is something personal, not subject to standards, not tested by water labs.

Buying bottled water seems to be almost something unconscious, bordering with superstition, because this global movement originates from successful advertising campaigns, not from scientific facts.

Actually if only the bad taste of tap water is the disturbing cause one would want to get rid of, a good water purifier at the faucet to obtain more agreeable water to drink is all that one needs to perform wonders in a most economic way.

It is asserted that quality home water filtration can offer substantially tastier water than tap or bottled water at a fraction of the cost. But of course suppliers' self praising statements should be taken with a grain of salt.

Proofs in the form of independent laboratory reports may permit comparisons. In case of water filters their effectiveness is demonstrated by confronting types and amounts of removed contaminants.

Sure, it may take some work to find out the papers and understand their meaning and then reaching conclusions. One may then call the suppliers and ask for clarifications or for additional proofs.

One of the best ways to gain confidence with any product is to go through testimonials, assuming that they are sincere and unbiased. Unsolicited customers' comments reporting on their experience with certain products or systems can give a measurable idea of their quality.

This exercise could be pushed one step further, if some of those customers could be contacted directly and asked precise questions about their continuing use and satisfaction.

The last stage of testing would involve purchasing the real thing, using it and finding out if it maintains the promises and if it represents a substantial improvement. The benefit is not only the better tasting drinking water obtained, but also the gain deriving from abandoning the bottled water myth.

You may be put down by the idea that you should pay money for something that, at your tap, is perceived as lacking any measurable cost, although the reality is different, you know.

As buying costly bottled water is far from cheap, why not starting with summing up for a month or two the total cost of the bottled water purchased? This will give you a sense of proportion, permitting to calculate how much time it would take to pay for your filter, only by sparing on bottled water.

If you now think you should care about drinking water quality and taste, you may check if the arguments above make some sense and if you would like to take the subject one step further. In this case you may well check the link in the author's bio.
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