Buy a water filter or be a water filter!
Little known fact, the leading cause of leaks within a residential plumbing system is the chlorine content within the water. Chlorine not only has tremendous negative impacts on the human body, but also destroys rubber. Rubber is how almost every plumbing device within your home creates a positive seal. Your toilets, faucets, garbage disposals even your water heater all have rubber washers, grommets, and other parts and pieces that cause them to not leak. Chlorine begins to destroy those the moment it is introduced. Because we at Home Service Doctors sincerely wish to avoid the need for you to have to make repairs, (seems counterintuitive, we know) we strongly suggest having a chlorine filter installed in your home for all city water applications. You’re more than welcome to do a quick Google search to find out exactly what it does to you and your family.
Bottled Water Blues
Millions and millions of dollars are spent each week on advertising campaigns to give consumers the perception that bottled water comes from some pristine mountain spring or magical underground aquifer, assuring purity and quality. However, the fact is that bottled water is most often little more than just tap water in a bottle… sometimes worse!
You see, the federal regulations that govern bottled water require it to be only as good as tap water, not better. There are no regulations or requirements that bottled water be any higher in quality than tap water, and according to some recent studies, it may often be of lower quality.
Take, for instance, a brand named 20 ounce bottled water that can be purchased from vending machines alongside soft drinks — and at the same price. Assuming you can find a $2 machine, which works out to 10 cents an ounce. Some of these brand names are essentially filtered tap water. Bottled close to their distribution point. Most municipal water costs less than 1 cent per gallon.
Now consider another widely-sold liquid: gasoline. It has to be pumped out of the ground in the form of crude oil, shipped to a refinery (often halfway across the world), and shipped again to your local filling station. In the U.S., the average price per gallon is hovering around $3. There are 128 ounces in a gallon, which puts the current price of gasoline at fraction over 2 cents an ounce. And that’s why there’s no shortage of companies which want to get into the business. In terms of price versus production cost, bottled water puts Big Oil to shame.
The bottled water industry is full of deception and questionable ethics. Industry lobbyists successfully fight every year to keep bottled water companies from having to abide by even the minimal health standards set by the EPA for tap water. The FDA, which regulates bottled water, states that “Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public.”
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a report called “Bottled Water, Pure Drink or Pure Hype?” NRDC’s report points out that as much as 40% of all bottled water comes from a city water system, just like tap water. The report also focuses on the fact that 60% to 70% of all bottled water sold in the U.S. is exempt from the FDA’s bottled water standards, because the federal standards do not apply to water bottled and sold within the same state. Unless the water is transported across state lines, there are no federal regulations that govern its quality. According to the NRDC, “Bottled water companies have used this loophole to avoid complying with basic health standards, such as those that apply to municipally treated tap water.” Also, all carbonated or sparkling waters are completely exempt from FDA guidelines that set specific contamination limits.
Ask a Plumberologist® for the Green alternative
It is unrealistic to think that water can be bottled in plastic containers, produced at a bottling factory, transported and stored at high temperatures for months at a time and be purer than what a basic home water filtration system can provide. It is impossible to get chemical free water from a plastic bottle. 

Basic home water filtration is more convenient, produces higher quality water and costs a fraction of what bottled water costs. “10 times the quality, 1/10th the cost and no pollution!” 

Bottled water causes over 60,000,000 (only 12% are recycled) plastic bottles to be produced, filled, transported and disposed of “every day” in America. It is an environmental nightmare. 

- It takes 3 times as much water to produce the bottle as it does to fill it. 

Use of fossil fuels and the related emissions from transporting dense, heavy containers of water throughout America make it even worse. 

Plastic takes over 300 years to degrade in nature. 

Plastic was invented 169 years ago and it is all still here, piling up in our landfills, oceans and communities. Seldom is there a great environmental change we can make that offers better quality, more convenience and at 1/10th the cost. Switching from bottled water to home water filtration does just that! 

Quality in-home water filtration is by far the best way to ensure healthy water for you and your family. A single home or office water filtration system can prevent millions of plastic bottles “per day” from entering and damaging our environment.
