I bought a case of Nestle Pure Life water last week. Yesterday I was drinking a bottle and thought this tastes like tap water. I decided to call the 1-800 number that Nestle puts on the bottle and ask a rep if their bottled water comes from a spring. One of Nestle service reps confirmed that their bottle water was indeed spring water that comes from Aberfoyle Springs.
It still taste like tap water to me. Those in the US, unfortunately get tap water with Nestle Pure Life. A 2007, Associated Press article read “Pure Life is the only Nestle bottled water that uses public water. Well that’s interesting.
Canadians get bottle spring water that tastes like tap water and Americans get bottled tap water with added minerals.
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13 responses so far ↓
Wrote: Apr 16, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Personally I prefer our well water run through a Brita filter!!!!
Wrote: Apr 18, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I also drink well water filtered through a Pur filter. I feel a little better about not contributing to excess bottles being thrown out. I just use my own.
Wrote: Apr 19, 2008 at 11:21 am
Yeahh! So true, often we find things that arent exactly what they are supossed to be. And plus, many people say that botteled water isnt better than tap, its just a perception…:D
Wrote: Apr 19, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I understand that a great deal of bottled water is tap water. There was conversation about using Albany, NY water, which in fact is not bad.
Wrote: Apr 20, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hmmm…where did my comment go?
Wrote: Apr 21, 2008 at 6:43 am
Use tap water everytime – and help protect the planet !!!- I am highly against the bottled water industry – mostly the water is of a lower standard than what comes out the taps and it contributes greatly to the litter and pollution (manufacturing all those plastic bottles) and then landfill!! Try living in Portugal where plastic water bottles are the number one litter offender, in the countryside, the cities and at the beaches. Gross – and totally unnecessary. Here a glass of wine is cheaper than buying bottled water! I go with the wine every time
Wrote: Apr 21, 2008 at 6:03 pm
They speak the truth in fact, I used to purchase water for retail from the company that originally owned it. The water was actually called Aberfoyle water and when the Nestle company purchased it they re-branded it to Nestle pure life. If you want to get away from the tap water flavor they also sell a wide variety of flavored water also from the Aberfoyle springs. Your local Zellers would have that for you and it’s on sale this week 2/$5.
Wrote: Apr 22, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Sy, I don’t know. I lost a few. Can you comment again? lol
Wrote: Apr 25, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I too use filtered tap water.whenever I’m at home. Otherwise, it’s bottled for me.
I also posted a link to this post on my weight loss blog (URL is above) as my readers there would probably find this interesting reading to say the least as I did.
Wrote: May 1, 2008 at 12:46 am
Yeah a lot of my cousins use a lot of bottled water us not so much just water from our spring
Wrote: May 17, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Rose, I certainly do agree that Nestles’ Pure Life water tastes just like tap water. For many years I had bought Aberfoyle water and enjoyed the taste so much. Then one day, I went to purchase some and found the name Nestle was added to the label. Eventually, Aberfoyle was completely removed and the water no longer had the taste of Artesian water. I stopped buying it.
Wrote: Sep 4, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Nastle??? I call it Nasty water. Nastle water in states tastes good but up here in Canada it tastes nasty I think all aberfoyle taste bad
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm
That it does. Fernbrook isn’t too bad.