[GeronL]

Nonesense. I'd take triple-purified water (Deja Blue) over water from out of the ground anyday

[ApplegateRanch]

My deep well (970') in limestone formations is just fine, thank you. Baring that, I can get $0.59/gal reverse-osmosis into my own containers at any of the loccal markets.

I grew up drinking from streams while hunting or fishing; using a spring fed reservoir; using well water; in some winter power outages, snow melt; and, when forced, city water. Only the city crud ever gave any problems.

I've drank some of tha bottled stuff when there wasn't anything else around, and it is just plain blah-yuk.