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Which households drink bottled water?
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In 2006, higher-income households and households with children were the most likely to use bottled water for their main source of drinking water in the home.
Almost one in four households with an income of $40,000 or less drank bottled water in the home; this rose to one in three households with an income over $91,000.
One in three households made up of working-age adults and children under 18 used bottled water as their main source of drinking water in the home.
Meanwhile, households living in apartments, households with seniors and no children, and households with at least one member with a university education were the least likely to drink bottled water.
In 2007, almost 6 in 10 Canadian households with municipally water drank mainly tap water. Of those people, 54% treated the water before drinking it, up from 48% in 2006.
