People passionate about their water

I have received quite a few responses to my last post:
Tap water vs. bottled water

There are different requirements and different government agencies for bottled water and municipal supplies.

And while a municipal supply is a bricks and mortar entity where we can determine the source of water, know who owns it, request an analysis; bottled water is more of a free market item where you cannot as easily determine the source (has anyone seen water imported from China yet?), eats oil in transportation and creating bottles, and creates a waste recycle stream.

Because water is such an abundant resource, there is a greater potential to fool the consumer through bottling rather than piping unless the bottling industry is highly regulated and the consumer is throughly informed