Too Many Types Of Bottled Water?
By Phoenix Delray
If you are confused about the many different types of bottled water available today, you are not alone. Although most people assume that it is all healthy, clean and safe they are left wondering what the differences are between artesian, distilled, drinking, spring and mineral waters. It can be confusing and frustrating when you are standing in the aisle at the supermarket trying to pick the healthiest choice for your family and you have no information to go by to help you in your process. One of the biggest questions that people have other than whats the difference is why we need so many different types of products.
Distilled is a word used to describe water that goes through a rather interesting vaporization process. These distilled products have close to 100% of the impurities and particulates removed from them by a simple yet important boiling process that it goes to. When distillation occurs, steam is condensed into a container, which leaves those solid contaminants behind, leaving close to 100% pure bottled water. If you run the tap in your kitchen into a clear glass and hold the glass up, you are likely to see all kinds of small particulates, which is what drives many people to purchase bottled water.
Products that are labeled as spring water flows from real springs from many different parts of the world. Pictures of babbling brooks and sunshine often fill peoples minds when they think of these springs, but the truth is that a spring is anywhere that the water runs on the surface of the earth. Although it is found on the surface, the source of it originates from below the earths surface. It is underground sourced water that many people enjoy the taste of more than the other types, although most people probably have a hard time differentiating it from other types. Some of those minerals dissolve as they move through the underground channels, and sometimes this can cause a slight flavor and sometimes carbon dioxide bubbles, which makes the bottled water sparkle. When this happens, spring water can be marketed sometimes as sparkling mineral water.
Artesian bottled water is sourced from wells that run under the earths surface or up on the surface. If the source is underground, that source is known as an artesian well. If the water is obtained right at the surface, the source is known as a flowing artesian well. Natural pressure from the earth makes it flow up towards the surface, and the next step after it is collected is to get it on the shelves as bottled water.
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