Bottled water – better than tap water?

(Photo courtesy of Jim Mills)

Scott at b5’s Health and Men has written a great article on bottled water and the recycling debate. I would like to add my views on bottled water from a genetics perspective.

I drink bottled water quite regularly but each time I ask the question …why?  It’s often over 2 years old with another year to go before the sell-by date expires. Now would you drink 2-3 year old water? Another factor which really concerns me is that over this time the water has been surrounded by plastic – with all those carcinogens leaching into it waiting to play ‘rearrange my DNA’…. not a pleasant thought! 

Now I try and fill my plastic bottle with tap water – a lot cheaper, fresher and hopefully a tadge more healthy as well!  But then there is the whole debate of what is added to tap water in the name of health and welfare …..

Just as a post script, the best ‘natural’ water I have ever tasted comes from an underground spring in the wilds of the Northumberland in the North of England – nothing added or taken away, pure nectar!

Elaine Warburton