Water is just water

[Lube]

It's funny to me that some guys will put a penis in their mouth but they won't drink tap water. *giggle*

Maybe they wash the penis in Perrier?

 

[MidnightPrism]

I don't drink water.

and I don't have juice ON TAP so I drink it from a bottle

 

[dolphwasser]

I'm old enough to remember the good old days when 'bottled water' only came in 5 gallon jugs - usually in doctors offices and such. I grew up with a very good community water system - so it was always tap water for me. Now, I live in the sticks and get great-tasting water from our well (we also have a Brita pitcher and Brita faucet attachment, though).

It burns me to shell out a buck or so when I'm away from home for water from a plastic bottle - although I do when I need to.

 

[Zeremonie]

interesting thread. I grew up on tap water and drank it up until about 1999. Then I started buying bottled water, and went through a phase of drink bottled water that lasted about 2 years roughly. I now drink tap again - it's just too expensive to buy bottled water, and contrary to Danjjo's post, seattle's tap water is fine.

 

[luminum]

There was a dioxin spil a year or so ago int he area I live, so tap water got a bit stigmatized, btu I'm poor and in college so there's nothing I can do about it.

I always drank from the tap, but I think my parents still felt weird about it so 16 years later, they got a fridge with a water dispensor and told me to use that instead.

My aunt always filtered, then boiled, then bottled her own water. She's been using those same two perrier water bottles since I was a tot.

 

[duroc5088]

I guess it is time for me to chime in and defend myself. HUH?

I grew up on tap water. Why would I buy water that is nothing more than filtered tap water in a bottle adn pay a dollar a bottle for it? it just don't make sense to me. But I guess that is just me. I perfer tap water over bottled water to be honest.

 

[Centexfarmer]

I guess it is time for me to chime in and defend myself. HUH?

I grew up on tap water. Why would I buy water that is nothing more than filtered tap water in a bottle adn pay a dollar a bottle for it? it just don't make sense to me. But I guess that is just me. I perfer tap water over bottled water to be honest.

No shit!

My Dad has worked is a Master Plumber, and he reminds me "that if it tastes like anything other than water, then it's NOT water."

Most of the Bottle stuff actually comes from a Municipal Water Supply.
Unless it specifically says: Spring, Artesian, etc.

My "tap water" is sourced from an Artesian Well, is is cool, clear, soft, and wonderful. I load it up by the bottle before I visit my parents in Dallas, where the water often "tastes like mud."

 

[doctorsun]

There have been countless studies disproving the cleanliness of bottled water over tap water. In many cases, the bottled waters were found to have far more contaminants than tap. So, if you're drinking bottled just because you think it's better for you or is cleaner, you're wasting your money.

However, bottled waters tend to have a better taste (except for a few, Aquafina tastes like metal). But that depends entirely on where your water supply comes from. Akron happens to have decent water.

FYI, Kent, Ohio was voted to have the best-tasting munincipal water in the country some years ago.

 

[pjlikesporn]

^ ^ ^

And Evian tastes like plastic! I drink both bottled and Britta-filtered tap water, but I can't believe how bad that Evian crap tastes. (And of course, it's naive spelled backward.)

 

[slobone]

I drank reverse osmosis water for years until I developed a cavity so bad I had to have a tooth pulled. Now I'm back on the tap.

I still drink spring water from time to time because I like the taste. But I treat it as a beverage, not a routine way to quench my thirst.

 

[ixthrock]

we have a well. i drink from the tap. i grew up on a well; probably one reason i don't have my uppers anymore.

central florida had what we called "sulfur water" out of the tap when i was a kid. we'd go down to visit my mom's family and id be grossed-out by the taste of it. now i get nostalgic for that taste, and for some reason it made the best damned coffee.

but what about temperature? before i had my uppers out, i couldnt stand ice in my water; i still dont like ice, and i dont really care for chilled water either. it seems like it does a better job of hydration if its room temperature.

i also drink warm water from the shower nozzle when im in the shower

 

[triple7]

it's all about the Brita baby, all about the Brita

besides, bottled water is such a huuuuuuge waste. so much garbage created.

 

[dolphwasser]

No shit!

My Dad has worked is a Master Plumber, and he reminds me "that if it tastes like anything other than water, then it's NOT water."

Most of the Bottle stuff actually comes from a Municipal Water Supply.
Unless it specifically says: Spring, Artesian, etc.

My "tap water" is sourced from an Artesian Well, is is cool, clear, soft, and wonderful. I load it up by the bottle before I visit my parents in Dallas, where the water often "tastes like mud."

He's right about the municipal water supplies. Check your bottles to be sure of what you're getting.

 

[NineOfClubs]

contrary to Danjjo's post, seattle's tap water is fine.

Maybe it is TODAY. But when I lived there it tasted and smelled of dead leaves. I could barely stand to take a shower. I called the water department to complain (they denied anything was wrong, but admitted getting many calls--hmm...). It was in the papers at the time, but I think perhaps only those among us sophisticated enough (can you say "winetasters") noticed.

So Z, if it's really drinkable now, I'm happy for you.