Bottled Water Costs 1,000 Times More Than Tap Water

By consumerist.com June 15, 2007

While cruising the New York City 2006 Drinking Water Supply and Quality Report our eyes lit up on the following item from the FAQ:

Should I buy bottled water?
You do not need to buy bottled water for health reasons in New York City since our water meets all federal and State health-based drinking water standards. Also, bottled water costs up to 1,000 times more than the City’s drinking water.

We don’t know exactly what they’re basing their numbers on, but we do know tap water is just as good as bottled. Put it in the Brita, put the Brita in the refrigerator, boom, lovely water. Just make sure to clean your Brita often enough.

Now, if we’re talking about sparkling or seltzer water, that’s a different story. We would pay good money to put a second faucet in our sink that dispenses carbonated water. — BEN POPKEN

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  1. synergy says:
    June 16, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    @Fuzzy_Duffel_Bag: “They mix like oil and water.”

    OK, a little unfair considering the oil might be a carrier for things that DO mix with water, but still…

  2. mytosis33 says:
    June 17, 2007 at 11:34 am

    Oil -CAN- get into a metal pipe system, depending on how old that system is. Pipes get rusty, crack, or just plain disintegrate and the only thing keeping it together is the soil around the pipe. Nothing lasts forever…

  3. MasterPhu says:
    June 17, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    I see a lot of commenters praising NYC tap water but guess what? MY DOG HATES IT.

    I just moved to NYC from Reno. In Reno I gave my dog unfiltered tap water and he had no problems with it. When I came here, the dog wasn’t drinking the water and I thought it was the stress of the move. On a whim my girlfriend gave him a capful of Fiji (bottled water) and he lapped it right up. I thought it was a fluke so I filled two bowls, one with NYC tap water and one with Fiji. Set the NYC bowl down first, he took a couple of licks from the NYC water and stopped. Set down the Fiji bowl and he finished it. Maybe humans can’t tell the difference but my dog sure can and if my dog wouldn’t drink it why should I?

  4. suburbancowboy says:
    June 17, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    NYC tap water is the reason our bagels and our pizza and hot pretzels taste better than everywhere else.

  5. Amy Alkon says:
    June 17, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Now that I live in Lost Angeles, I would buy NYC tap water. It tastes great. I never drink bottled in NYC, except Pellegrino or other sparkling, or when I need a bottle to carry in my bag. (Which I refill from the tap.)

  6. consumer_999 says:
    June 18, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Brita is a crap solution. The filter replacement cycle is a function of time (there’s a timer ffs!), not of amount of water filtered. And they run more than $5 a pop. It doesn’t take a scientist to figure out the problem there: if you follow the little timer that tells you to replace it, and drink very little water, you’re wasting money. If you follow the little timer and drink a lot of water, you’re drinking a lot of poorly filtered dirty water.

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