What is the best choice of drinking water: bottled or tap water?
Tap water, because our water is of excellent quality, carefully monitored, and affordable.

When we look at issues such as quality, monitoring and affordability, we see that bottled water doesn't always measure up. Some brands of bottled water may be of excellent quality, but others can have inferior quality or they may be simply taken from municipal water supplies. All of the bottled waters are more expensive than tap. For the price of one small bottle of water, you would be able to buy about 340 gallons of tap water.

There are also fewer government regulations to guide the bottled water industry. Monitoring requirements aren't as stringent as are those for tap water. For quality, consistency and affordability, tap water is the better choice.

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1. Is our drinking water safe?
2. How will I know if my water is contaminated?
3. What is being done to protect the water supply impacts from the fire?
4. Is the water from my well safe to drink?
5. Where does tap water come from?
6. Why is the drinking water stored in large tanks on hillsides?
7. What is the best choice of drinking water: bottled or tap water?
8. My tap water sometimes has an odd taste and odor. Why?
9. What can I do to avoid taste and odor in my tap water?
10. Is my tap water safe to drink?
11. Does Santa Rosa fluoridate its drinking water?
12. Is fluoride in my drinking water safe?
13. What is water hardness?
14. What are the health effects associated with hard water?
15. What is the conversion factor for mg/L of hardness to grains per gallon of hardness?
16. How do I set my water softener correctly?
17. What is the white residue on pots and pans after I boil water?
18. If I am on a salt-restricted diet, will the sodium in drinking water hurt me?
19. What are total coliform bacteria?
20. What is E. coli? Where does it come from? How can water be treated to protect against E. coli?
21. How often do you test tap water for total/fecal coliform?
22. Why is water tested for total/fecal coliform only?
23. What can cause the tap water to be cloudy or milky?
24. What can cause tap water to smell like bleach?
25. Sometimes water coming out of my tap is brown or has sediments in it. Why?
26. What should I do if I turned on a faucet, and the water coming out is discolored?
27. What is wrong if I smell a rotten egg odor when I run water in the house?