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Tap water that went to finishing school and got a geology degree.
means Water drawn from a natural spring or mineral source, carrying dissolved minerals and sometimes natural carbonation, bottled roughly as nature mixed it.
from Straightforward compound: 'mineral' tracing to Latin minera, 'a mine' or 'ore,' plus 'water.' The term took off as people began bottling and selling spring water from places like Vichy and Perrier specifically for its mineral content, believed (sometimes dubiously, sometimes rightly) to carry health benefits — turning plain spring water into something worth charging for.
- legal definition
- must come from a protected underground source
- the catch
- cannot be treated or have minerals added
- fizz myth
- carbonation is optional, not required by law
- terroir, but water
- mineral content varies by rock it touched