Do you drink bottled tap water?

[sethjj1975]

Many places may have drinkable tap water, but Palm Springs is not one of them. It comes out the faucet frothy and cloudy and if you let it sit for long enough a film of white "debris" settles along the bottom. No thanks.

 

[MrBarbrey]

yuck fuck that's all i drink motherfucker

 

[gmoney]

I've lived in two cities where the municipal water wasn't pleasant to drink. I purchased the Brita water filter system and refill containers from that. The few times I buy bottled water is for convenience only. I got a new refrigerator with an inline filter and the ice and water in the door taste just fine. Every morning, I fill a gallon insulated container to take with me, so now I almost never purchase bottled water.

 

[frankfrank]

I don't buy the kind of bottled water that's being talked about here. EVER. Instead, I will buy and reuse the cheap gallon jugs of water, buying new jugs when old ones wear out. (They almost always start to leak, eventually.)

I will gladly refill at the "water island machine" which is unabashedly nothing more than tap water which has undergone filtration.

Actually, in most places (restaurants, etc.) I'll simply drink the tap water that's offered to me - even there I won't order a bottled water.

However, at home I will NOT drink my own tap water for any reason. Because I'm surrounded by farm fields, and the water comes out somewhat slightly yellowish nearly all year (clearing up ONLY in the parts of winter when the topsoil is entirely frozen), I'm very skeptical of what may be in it. In fact, for the same reason, I'll shower only when it becomes "a good idea" to do so, and that way I'm absorbing fewer of what could be questionable chemicals through the skin.

I don't think it's advisable to ingest even trace amounts of stuff like Round Up...

 

[JR]

Bottled water is the silliest thing I could have ever imagined. Beyond the absurd pricing, it is mostly the same product that comes into most homes automatically.

The companies stress that it is FILTERED. Well yes. So is the water that goes into Coke, Pepsi, etc. in bottles AND at soda fountains. It is not especially different from the filters lots of people have on their sinks, refrigerators or Britta-type pitchers.

But here's the silliest thing. Beyond the expense and the extra trash created, the bottles, when left in a hot car or in other warm storage, release cancer-causing agents into the "safer" water. And while not frequent, there is a slightly greater risk of bacteria from bottled water processing than from most taps.

I do drink bottled water now and then, but only when tap is not available. The water supply in most of the US is outstanding.

 

[Shepherd 2]

Not Aquafina.
I drink filtered and conditioined water
from my house tap.
Shep+

 

[The_Bennu_Bird]

When I was a kid,dad would stop on the highway to fill up jugs from water coming off a mountain,somewhere in NY,I think near Watkins Glen.

There is one close to Java lake, we used to do the same thing on trips. It was just a rubber hose someone shoved into a rock on the side of a large hill.

 

[LarsVenice]

We filter our tap water and never buy bottled water. My favorite tap water was in Vancouver, BC before they started putting fluoride in it. At that time, the water was so pure that there were never any bathtub rings, and after washing my hair, it felt like I had used a conditioner because there was no residue on it. Now that they have fluoride added, I guess children have better teeth, but the water quality is not what it used to be.

My parents have artesian water from wells that my great grandfather dug.

 

[1gayguy]

Charles isn't that bad anymore though - they're swimming in it now

They can swim in it all they want but I aint goin in there!