Bottled water/packed water harmful or good?

There is nothing wrong with plain ole' tap water! If it is being supplied to you, it's safe! I refuse to buy bottled water, it has no flouride in it! Flouride intake is essential for children, especially young children! I have better things to spend money on than bottled water, when water that is perfectly healthy comes out of my faucet! Sounds like your cousin's daughter is SPOILED!

If I may just add, have you noticed any bottled water for babies that says with added fluoride in it? http://images.quickblogcast.com/8/6/7/3/5/163531-153768/HEBFluoride.jpg?a=59 Fluoride is for strengthening our teeth and is not meant to be ingested especially by babies. My cousin who is a nurse is feeding her baby with this water. She does not see anything wrong with it. Oh well, how can I complain if she thinks she knows better? As for me, I will use boiled water instead. With everything that's going on, I do not know what's safe anymore.

In my home country water from a tap is someones kitchen is safe to drink. In some places the water is safe enough to drink but it tastes unpleasant. I found that with the tap water in Los Angeles. In some of the places worldwide that I have been to the water isn't safe to drink at all. For example it could make a person very ill. Such dangerous water has to be boiled many times to get rid of the danger in it. I think that many plastic bottles fill up bins and are a problem. Better still are glass bottles that can be recycled. I believe it is what a child is used to so the little girl was used to bottled water and didn't like the idea of drinking cooled boiled water. I like pure water and not water is dangerous. I am happy to drink water from the tap when I at home. I drank cooled boiled water in Indonesia and it was fine.

I do the same, boil the water and cool it off to drink. I don't like the water from the sink, the bottle is fine but I prefer boiled water, my husband drinks the water from the sink and he says it is very clean but drinking the boiled water is my habit since I was small, I don't think I would change that habit and I think the sink water tastes funny.

I don't believe that bottled water is harmful to us. Fresh spring water in its natural and pure state would be of the most benefit though. A lot of processing goes into bottled water to preserve the flavor.

It is all depends on how the company used to store the water and utilize it or procedure of packing to become a packaged drinking water. Of Course some times these companies will mix the chemicals so that water will get a taste so that they will get huge customers. But those chemicals are like slow poison for us. So while buying any kind of water please verify it and then buy good one and be healthier.

Yeah I guess it has some sort of taste that is attractive to the kids. I actually do drink bottled water because I don't trust the water here, but I'd rather drink purified water from the refrigerator to be honest.