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Isn't spring just a naturally occurring well? Honest question, I have lived in a city my whole life and I would have boiled or at least purified water from eit

• wand3r 9y ago
  I have a well. I am not an authority on them but growing up having one I know it is treated. Our water is "hard" so it goes through a softener which requires a massive amount of salt. There are numerous filters in the basement as well. It isn't pumped from the ground directly to the tap and the system maintainers come and test it periodically when they do maintenance
  • flogic 9y ago
    That's some wells. When I was growing up, my parents' well was pretty much untreated. The water was a acidic so that first morning drink of water tasted of copper. I suspect most of the safety came from arranging the conditions so the water would be safe by default. There is a minimum depth for the well and it needs to be a certain distance from the septic system.
• ghaff 9y ago
  Pretty much. A spring does imply water coming to the surface naturally. However, in practice, a large bottler is probably pumping water from an underground aquifer in any case. In my experience, people don't routinely treat well water before drinking it.