Share 'Bottle water may just be tap water....'

A bottle of water can cost anywhere from 69 cents in a minimart to $5 in a posh restaurant. For the price of one bottle of Evian, you could use 1000 gallons of water from your tap at home. Nonetheless, bottled water is an $8 billion industry in the United States; Americans drank 5 billion gallons in 2001. 1 Why are we willing to pay so much for that glass of water? Is bottled better? We bu…