So to sum it up, this whole bottled water bussiness is nothing but pure marketing hype, especially in Europe and North America. You can ssafely drink tap water in most places, except that many European restaurants will not serve it to you, and instead will bring you overpriced bottled water. I always demanded tap water in such situations, sometimes it worked sometimes it did not. I am pretty sure this also holds for Moscow - what do you think people drank there before all that bottled water craze? If you have concerns over taste, buy a pitcher with Brita filter - it is far more economical than buying bottled water. Wojtek
--------------------------------------------------------------- "When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. [...] All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men." - HL Mencken ----------------------------------------------------------------