Arrowhead water bottler ordered to stop operations in San Bernardino Mountains

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6. It shouldn't be a big deal to replicate the exact composition and taste of this water...

... using ordinary Los Angeles tap water as a source. But that upends the mystique these "natural" spring waters are sold by.

Our regional wastewater treatment plant refines raw sewage into irrigation water and potable water. They bottle some of this potable water for people to sample on tours of the plant. Mostly this potable water is used to replenish the aquifers our local cities draw their water from.

My wife and I make our own drinking water by reverse osmosis. The waste water from our reverse osmosis unit replenishes the fountains and fishponds in our garden.

Ultimately all the water on earth is recycled water. At some point in it's journey through the biosphere all the "good" water we drink has been at times "bad" water we would never drink