Like a damn fool.

I always thought it tasted funny. I always hated drinking them and i prefer to drink Fiji or Evian to that now i know why.

I feel cheated. I never really drunk Aquafina. I usually just got Dasani or some other brand.

Ah, caught again eh? They got told off by the powers that be a few years ago for using tap water in their all new, all singing all dancing bottled water they were about to launch (this was at the Footscray, Kent UK plant). Consequently, they took it off the shelves before it had even started.

with bottled water you are paying for the convenience of having the water in a bottle that you didn't have to carry from home if you are out and about or didn't have to pour into a bottle that you will later have to wash. unless it says "spring water" on it i expect that it is either tap water or some variation of tap water.

Can you say LAWSUIT!!!!...;)

I do buy bottled water when I am traveling. But, (another nugget of knowledge) I only buy water that is bottled out of whatever state I am in. If water is bottled in the state it's being sold in, it does NOT have to follow any FDA standards. So when I get off of a plane, I check the source of the water. If it's lot listed, I don't buy it!

I don't buy bottled water for that reason. Boil your own, and bottle it yourself. Then you have the best of both worlds, portable and cheap.

Aquafina is from Pepsi, Dasani from Coke. I was not surprised by this news -- I always knew that it was the regular water they used to make soft drinks, just thrown in a bottle with a nifty name. I don't think they ever claimed it was anything else. But it doesn't bother me because 1) I don't dislike tap water and 2) I only buy it when I'm travelling and just want a bottle of cold water to quench my thirst.

I always knew it, however it tastes different, no matter what >_>.

The same way I did before. It's sold to you bulk at home through the tap by the gallon (or liter in some places?). What did you think was in bottled water? Some magic concoction found from some super secret source? It's the same water we get everywhere else that has to be made consumable and stay good while bottled. Why would you buy bottled water over drinking it from your sink if it wasn't for convenience? It's still better than some well-water, even after its been softened. Am I upset... No. Am I disgusted... No. Should everyone else be... No. It's portable, its cold and its safe for consumption. If they told me that they were bottling water from their pond out back that was right next to their septic system, then I'd be appalled.

Pepsi has at last conceded that its Aquafina comes not from babbling brooks high atop a snow-capped peak. It comes out of the tap. The only real difference is that it costs about 5,000 times as much as tap water. Those little plastic bottles don't do much for the environment either. And then there are all those trucks that ... well, you get the picture. Bottled water tastes better than tap water because the chlorine is removed. This is basically what in-home filters do too. Removing the chlorine makes the water taste better but does nothing -- as in no thing -- to remove heavy metals or other potentially harmful pollutants.

Why does anyone buy bottled water anyway when we all have it on tap? It's ridiculous. You know Evian is naive spelt backwards.

Sure am glad that I stuck with Dasani. : - )

First, Aquafina is not owned by Coca-cola. I'm not one who goes out of his way to purchase bottled water, but I'm inclined to believe that people generally purchase bottled water for its purity. The fact that it comes from a spring or from your faucet doesn't make it any more or less pure. A series of water filtration processes can produce something much more pure than an aquifer could. Aquafina undergoes such filtration methods. I've run an experiment with atomic absorption spectrophotometry to determine levels of Calcium and Magnesium ions in various samples of water including brand names like Evian, Poland Springs, Deer Park as well as Aquafina. Calcium and Magnesium may not be the only ions in bottled water, but they are contributors to 'hard water.' It was discovered in my experiment that Aquafina had far fewer calcium and magnesium parts per million. Comparatively, Deer Park and Poland Spring (both from natural springs) had between 2 and 4 times the amount. Evian (a mineral water also from natural spring) had nearly 50 times the amount of calcium and magnesium ions. Sometimes I guess it is desired to have more minerals in drinking water. I'm not a doctor but I don't believe that it will hurt you to drink bottled water which has a lot of minerals.

That's why I'll drink both tap and bottled.