” Actually, bad water will kill you faster than no water. “
There’s a broad spectrum of what can be considered ‘bad’ water —
Commercially bottled water can reasonably be relied upon to contain next-to-nothing in the way of heavy metal, chemical, or biological contaminants off-the-shelf.. (Our litigious society has seen to that..) - and stored properly, none of these will be introduced after purchase...
The most likely way for commercially bottled water to ‘go bad’ is for bacteria and such to sneak in through a poorly sealed container, and that requires mere boiling to restore it to potability..
When in doubt - boil....
There was a court case, years ago ...
“What is bottled water?” It is water, in a bottle.
It came up because some entreprenour in NYC was bottling NYC tapwater, and selling it as bottled water.
He won. It was water, in a bottle.
(As an aside, NYC tapwater is about the purist water on the planet.)
If you leave water to sit in my AO, you will get leptosprirosis, or some such. Sitting water - bad.
Go get fresh water out of the river.
Damn those Litigators.