It's generally accepted amongst knowledgeable tea drinkers that one should
use bottled water for tea if one's regular tap water doesn't taste good.
Mine doesn't and since I'm getting tired of the expense and effort required
to keep my tea habit in decent-tasting water, I've been looking at filtering
systems and read in the r.f.d.t. FAQ that bottled water is preferred over
filtered water unless it's drawn and immediately put on to boil and not left
sitting in a filtering carafe or pitcher.

My question is: What's the difference? Don't spring waters pass through
some sort of filtration or some sort of process that removes oxygen as much
as home filtering does before they're bottled? Even if not, both bottle and
carafe are made of plastic and will affect the taste depending on the
quality of plastic used and bottled water sits in it's plastic bottle a
*whole* lot longer than home-filtered water sits in a pitcher waiting to be
used.

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