SWIM was thinking passing out this link to this community as he thinks anyone should have access to clean unprocessed water in order to maintain good health...
For short try to stay away from heavy chemicals, diverse prescrition drugs and unstructured water that just drain the body from life.

"The water you drink becomes your blood after a few minutes... Do you want it made of fluorinated-chlorinated nasty water or you'd like to get the best water available on earth, the one nature provides for you?"

This website is dedicated to give access to fresh spring-water around the globe, you can just use the database or even upload a new location you know near you if you wish.
What a delight to go harvesting one's own drinking water in the forest, reclaiming the present from ou mother Earth right from the source!

Enjoy my friends, CHEERS

http://www.findaspring.com/

Pretty cool man, thanks!

find a spring is a great site..I have been drinking wild spring water for almost 3 years now..I dont get near tap or bottled water..it's just not worth it to go back to that "water" once you start drinking the real stuff..

Damn! My nearest spring is miles away!

That's so true once one try the real stuff the liquid coming out of the tap is not considered as drinkable...

Soulfood don't loose hope man, ask the elders around they probably know one from their childhood or even search the internet with your location associated with the words "spring water"; SWIM found one this way while he was living in the uk, that's loaded there!
You might consider also than a one or two hours trip can provide you easily two weeks with fresh living water...

Good luck, hopefully the message will spread...

This is really cool. Found a few new nearby springs I didn't know about.

It is worth mentioning that spring water is not by definition completely pure or less toxic than bottled or even city water.
Contaminants are hard to pinpoint in natural sources and most these springs are not tested for minimum quality specifications.
This is especially an issue with proximal farmlands due to possible pesticide infiltration.

That said, clean springs are impossible to beat. Cheers!

Mine too

"It is worth mentioning that spring water is not by definition completely pure or less toxic than bottled or even city water."

No, but I think artesian spring water is.

Yeah, it would be good to realy inform yourself about the condition of the spring before considering it safer than tapwater. There can be all kinds of nasty stuff in the soil, and not just manmade nasty stuff but also heavy metals etc.

Tapwater differs enourmously in quality, everywhere around the globe. It tastes different everywhere.
Sometimes the difference is small, but often when you're in another place you can easily taste the difference.
Most of the difference is caused by the different levels of calcium, but there are other factors as well.

Yea, artesians are typically better protected from most man-made contaminates.

Only man-made contaminates. Check for heavy metals and other nasty stuff. There are places where people are dying because of natural occuring polutants in the groundwater.
I think it's realy simple: if you live in a place where there have been people around for at least a few hundred years, then if there's good clean water in the ground, there's ancient knowledge on use of it. If you're living in a place where population has exploded in the past century, you cannot be sure of anything and you should maybe sent artesian water, if you would find it, to some lab. Being sure there's no arsenic in your water is worth the money.

Absolutely. I was responding to fractals mention of artesian springs.

As you mentioned, most contamination issues in natural spring sources are not from man-made pollutants.

I would love to get my water from a spring.. My old man owns 120 acres of hardwoods in northern michigan, there are springs everywhere out there.. you really can taste the difference. you can taste the minerals in it..

Water is never the same, wherever you go.
I once heard somebody mention that you can even see this when you make tea: in some types of water, a waxy layer will form on the water while on other types of water it won't. I must say that i did indeed notice this, but i don't remember what the chemistry behind this phenomenon was.