31. Bottled Water

Coming from Brittany, I have always drank bottle water, for health safety reasons: phreatic tables are well known to be polluted due to intensive agriculture, especially in the countryside, where I grew up.
Usually, my parents bought the cheapest spring water, namely Cristalline, and sometimes mineral water.
We would use tap water for boiling, as it was safe enough.
It is a very bad habit that I have kept since, and whenever I drink tap water, I usually taste the chlorine and cannot bear it. And for health reason, I have to avoid water that is high in calcium, bicarbonate and sodium. Tap water in my city had quite hight level of those.

I know that buying bottled water is an ecological aberration and encourage big companies to make profit out of a resource that should be free of charge for all.
However, in Germany, there is deposit on glass bottles that I buy, so it is less worse for the environment.

It is, in Bavaria where I live, very difficult to find soft mineral water, meaning water that has a very low level of minerals. I found two brands: Black Forrest and Lauretana that does not belong to big multinationals (to my knowledge).

One final note: In Bavaria too, intensive agriculture, manure, pesticides are widely used.
Nitrate in groundwater: Rising pollution levels in Bavaria