"One day, I even found myself asking my girlfriend for a few cents because I had no money to buy bottled water"
In general, when you have no money, tap water is better than bankruptcy.
In general, when you have no money, tap water is better than bankruptcy.
It's quite a shock when you start noticing that $3 bottles of water start adding up.
Refrigerated bottled water is cheap though, only 12 cents, but I know many locals who perceive drinking out of plastic bottles to be a bigger health risk than drinking tap water.
most of bottled water is tap water in plastic bottles, potentially infused with mix of BPA and other if ever exposed to slight amount of sunlight. don't ever think they use some high quality inert plastics on that bottle, because they don't.
with true deep well/mountain spring you are getting potentially better quality prior to bottling, and no idea what in final bottle.
if you have really poor quality tap water where you live, that's your best choice. it still might not be a healthy choice though.
My city just kicked off a project to deepen the wells so they don't need as much anti-bacterial treatment and the savings will be used to soften it a bit.