So an interesting thing I've noticed is the refinement of the bottled water industry, where they are trying to follow the success of wine. I know that spirits is currently attempting to follow wine as well. Now everyone has vodka or more traditionally scotch tastings. I guess I've seen tea try to go down this direction as well.

There definitely is something to it. I'm fairly picky about water, though I will settle for municipal tap. Pittsburgh's municipal tap is less than desirable. We stopped drinking it after we started noticing how it never made us feel better. Drinking water should make you feel hydrated, able to concentrate. I always felt just blah. So now we have a fridge w/ a built in filter. I've noticed a marked difference.

I've always preferred Volvic over Evian. Evian has this soft mouth feel that makes me feel like I'm drinking plastic. Dasani in Edmonton was always better IMHO. I've noticed that bottled mineral water in Pittsburgh is much more expensive than Canada. I can usually buy a large bottle of San Benedetto for a $1 CDN at Superstore in Toronto while I noticed at Penn Mac, it's $2.99 USD. I'm not sure why that is. So I usually just buy seltzer instead. Oh for Italian bubbles...

http://www.finewaters.com