Question:
This bottled water issue can get very complicated the way I see it. Twenty some odd years ago I remember hearing something like "there is good news and bad news.any comments?

Answer: Now the "Bottled Water" market is in the news with many stories from many different angles. Some want to ban it and get everyone back to public water supplies saying the manufacturing of plastic containers are bad for the environment and use to much energy and so forth. I have been using bottled water for much longer then twenty years because of the uncertain quality of local water supplies in my area. Well water used to be great until ground water quality stared to become unsafe for many reasons. Salt was being used on roads more and more and insecticides were becoming widely used on lawns and gardens. Acid rain increased over the years and pollution became more common so now the wells have to be carefully placed and drilled much deeper if at all.

We have suffered some major floods in our area which made it necessary to add more chemicals to our local water that effected the taste and made the consistency of water quality suspect. Some communities have reported cases of contamination that required residents to boil drinking water until further notice. Hospital waste has been washing up on beaches and sewerage has made its way into reservoirs not to mention threats of intentional contamination by those new breed of bad