Do you drink tap water?

Ilovepeppers

Not trying to sound pretentious. I haven't gone shopping today so there's no bottled water and I'm faced with my husbands mountain dew or tap water (that has been under investigation 4 of the last 10 years for the stuff the county puts in it or doesn't properly remove but still not deadly, just.... Gross)

What would you do? I'm thirsty and haven't had any liquids today.

Ilovepeppers

I should add its a big deal for me because the MD is 240 calories and I've been soda free for almost 2 months.

crystal_sapphire

boil the water and then drain it into a pitcher.

i drink tap water

iplayoutside19

Tap Water is better than leaded Mt Dew. You'll be fine.

LuckyLeprechaun

add ice and dont think about it. Then go buy yourself a brita. Never run out of water, no bottles

sarah44254

Boil the tap water, yes!! That will help clear your conscious and also help clear some bad things from the water, not all, but enough

InstantSunshine

I drink tap water all the time - but I think ours is different. I thought it had to be safe to drink by law or something?

kao708

I don't drink ours because it's nasty but in a pinch you could boil it like everyone else said. Next store trip buy a pitcher to filter it so you never have to buy bottles again!

kendf60

I live in Orange County, CA and drink tap water all the time. The quality and taste varies alot from place to place though. Some areas vary alot by season too. It probably won't harm you at all, especially if you're only drinking it occasionally.

UnpredictablyPretty21

Definitly boil it if you dont have a filter.... If i were you I would be going out to buy a filter... otherwise I would be going out and looking for bottled water :P
Well done for being soda free for 2 months, thats awesome

Cmydob

I just drink the tap water.

susioryan

Do you realize that a majority of bottle water is actually tap water that someone is making money off of unsuspecting consumers? I drink tap water, boil it or get a Brita if it makes you feel better.

Rurouni_Kou

I drink tap water. We have old pipes though so I added a filter to our sink so the tap water doesn't turn tea colored.

I -despise- bottled water. Such a waste of money and resources. 1) You end up wasting tons of plastic (even if you recycle it it takes lots of oil to produce it and can only be recycled once or twice before its trash) 2) Nearly all the waters come from the city municipal system anyway- Ozarka says what spring they got it from, but everything else will say "City XX municipal system:" So essentially you paying 200 times as much to have someone filter the water for you that you already pay for through the city.

Get a filter for your tap- cheaper and creates less waste and you don't have the problem of running out of water.

(Now if only I could figure out how to hack my filter replacements and change out the filter media myself so I don't have to throw them away...)

KrisPage

Research the bottle water most are only tap water, the hide it in the labeling but read carefully and in between the lines.

Kiwijay

Tap water all the way...luckily though here in NZ our water is pretty darn good!!

JulieTX86

I am feeling like the odd one out... I pretty much only drink tap water.

:blushing:

alliecore

add ice and dont think about it. Then go buy yourself a brita. Never run out of water, no bottles

Agree. We have city water and yes, I admit that I stress about drinking it, but I just filter it and try not to worry. But we really can't afford to buy bottled water all the time; and beyond that, I would stress about drinking something that has been bottled in plastic (BPA).

sara_m83

If you live in a first world country, your tap water is perfectly safe to drink (unless there are advisories out for whatever reason). Bottled water is just a marketing ploy and a source of enormous environmental waste (not to mention financial waste). I only drink tap water.

ajbeans

I agree, buy filters! If you still feel the need to boil it, I would filter first and then boil.

But for today, yes, I would just put a bunch of ice in it and drink the water. Don't do the Dew!

lucasdany

I drink tap water, bottled water has been shown to have more live unhealthy bacteria then tap. I filter mine with a brita and will never use bottled water again. Waste of money and plastic.

Actuality

Filling up my glass with ATL's finest tap water as I read this thread. Ain't no harm !!!

chuckyp

Nothing wrong with tap water as long as the minerals in your area don't make it taste bad to you. I drink all day out of the drinking fountain at work. At home we have RO for our drinking water so I drink that. I think bottled water is a waste of money and resources except for maybe taking camping or keeping in a fridge where you don't otherwise have access to cold water. And of course for foreign countries where the tap water is not safe to drink.
Boiling tap water won't do you any good. Municipal water in the US should not contain microorganisms. If you're worried about chemicals and whatnot, boiling it won't change that anyway.
Geez, it sounds like some of you guys have your tap water pumped out of a murky creek next to the medical waste dump or something! hahaha

thankyou4thevenom

I don't drink tap water, just because I don't like the taste. We have a filter at home so I drink that.

However if it was a choice between Mountain Dew and tap water. I'd drink tap water.

fitnesspirateninja

In a city, I drink tap water. My house is on a well and they found E.Coli when it was tested. There's also been an issue with nitrates found in the water here, but not at our house.

If I was on the grid and the city or or county provided the water, I'd drink it. I loved living in NYC because the water was great!

LuckyLeprechaun

(Now if only I could figure out how to hack my filter replacements and change out the filter media myself so I don't have to throw them away...)

check out tupperware's newest pitcher. The filter holder is permanently reusable, and you buy new granules from tupperware to refresh the filtering action.

I already own a brita, but I would get the tupperware if I didn't already have a filtering pitcher.

Sara1978

I drink only tap water. I carry a metal bottle with me and fill it up in the sink whenever it is running low. The water where I live is good-- and, to be honest, I drink the tap water wherever I'm traveling in this country without thinking about it. The only times I've felt the need to buy bottled water was when I was traveling in parts of the world that didn't qualify as first world nations...

southernlay_d

I drink tap water all the time. I like it luke warm, but that's just moi! :noway: I am chugging a glass right now actually.

jagarcia646

Yes, tap water is safe to drink for the most part although sometimes they warn of old plumbing and piped. I still don't drink it though. Even here in NYC where they say we have the cleanest tap water. For me, it is usually the taste that I can't get past.

jagarcia646

Yes, tap water is safe to drink for the most part although sometimes they warn of old plumbing and piped. I still don't drink it though. Even here in NYC where they say we have the cleanest tap water. For me, it is usually the taste that I can't get past.

godblessourhome

i love our tap water! when i was younger, i used to hate going to our family reunions during the summer because their water was so gross with a weird, metallic taste. ugh! now we hold the family reunions here and they bring tons of empty jugs to take our water home. lol.

delilah514

I am drinking a glass of tap water right now