Originally Posted by
skookum
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In Canada and the US, we are lucky that the vast majority of places has potable tap water. Most of the world is not so fortunate.
Fully agree. Disasters like Flint Michigan are an extreme rarity. Generally the water utilities follow the regulations and the regulations are generally appropriate.
A friend of mine was telling me that when he was in Russia, he would watch to see which brands of bottled water the locals were buying and he would only buy those brands.
In USA the regulations on municipal water are more stringent than on water bottling plants. If I buy bottled water, it is because I wanted a bottle of water to take with me. That said, I have bought bottled water because I wanted a one liter bottle that fit in my bottle cages. This is one of the brands that fits in standard bike cages.
https://www.target.com/p/lifewtr-pre...e/-/A-51955216