Article: Bottled water may not be as healthy as tap water

Victoria Moss
University Wire
11-15-2007
(Daily Forty-Niner) (U-WIRE) LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Many know that drinking water is essential to maintaining good health, but does anyone ever stop to think about the quality of the water?

In today's health-conscious society, most people prefer to drink bottled water because of its supposedly higher quality, and Cal State Long Beach students are no exception.

"I wouldn't drink tap water from Long Beach," said Alicia Everetts, a senior biology/physiology and anthropology major at California State University at Long Beach. "It's not very clean."

Like Everetts, more and more students on campus are purchasing water bottles or carrying around refillable ...

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