What sort of water do you drink?

paperpudding
paperpudding Posts: 9,300 Member
in Food and Nutrition
A discussion elsewhere just made me curious what MFPer's drink?

Most of us are trying to drink water every day - do you drink plain tap water or buy bottled water or drink rainwater?

Now I realize posters are from all different parts of the world and tap water quality varies.

In most parts of Australia (other than isolated outback areas on bore water) the tap water is very safe to drink and we are encouraged to do so.

I rarely drink it myself though - I nearly always drink rain water.
I occasionally buy bottled water - if I am out somewhere and forgot to bring some from home or am on holidays - and then I keep the bottles and re-fill from home with rain water. Each bottle is re-used many many times
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  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    Tapwater smells and tastes super chlorine-y around here, so I have an ancient filter in the fridge that I keep filled and dispense it from that into cheap plastic bottles or a glass. I'm sure at this point, all it's doing is storing the water and the chlorine is just evaporating out, but I MUCH prefer it to straight tap-water. I also don't give it straight to the goldfish, I use some droplet things that get rid of chlorine. My husband drinks it though lol.
  • c410
    c410 Posts: 6 Member
    I lived in California for 2 years and our water tasted horrible! Ever since I've gotten in the habit of filling a Brita filter pitcher and leaving it in the fridge. And bonus, the water is always nice and cold.
  • taytaylynn3
    taytaylynn3 Posts: 601
    Tap. It tastes awesome here. Sometimes I do use a Brita though because it is colder after sitting in the fridge.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I drink distilled deionized rainwater from the Himalayas
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    I only drink water that comes from a glacier and blessed by shamans. High quality H2O.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,252 Member
    :grumble: Should have invested in the bottled water business 20 years ago when I though it had some leg room.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,252 Member
    I only drink water that comes from a glacier and blessed by shamans. High quality H2O.
    And only from the drilled sites that bring water to the surface from 60,000 yrs ago......you can taste the difference.
  • justbecause2014
    justbecause2014 Posts: 371 Member
    I'm lucky to live where the tap water is yummy! :)
  • amybg1
    amybg1 Posts: 631 Member
    Here the tap water has no taste and studies have been done on it that shows it's cleaner than the bottled stuff. I have afew re-usable bottles that I use, one I use almost every day holds roughly a litre so fill that up about twice a day and voila!
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    I drink water that contains fizzy bubbles of carbonation and is generally dark in color.
  • Left4Good
    Left4Good Posts: 304
    I like Sparkling Ice Crisp Apple water.
  • siratlas
    siratlas Posts: 239 Member
    oh the irony of my post....I boycotted buying bottled water out of convenience for many years...but my tap water is so damn awfulnow that it's unfit to drink. Even brita filters don't help. So I either get spring water from a friend who has a well, or when not avaliable I swallow my advocacy pride and buy 2.5 gallon jugs and just fill up my reusable bottle on the go.
  • autotek
    autotek Posts: 66 Member
    dasani water

    i love it 6 to 8 bottles a day

    i buy 24 to 30 cases at a time lol:bigsmile:
  • tahneesummers88
    tahneesummers88 Posts: 52 Member
    I'm in Australia too, but I buy bottled water. :-)
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    I drink water that contains fizzy bubbles of carbonation and is generally dark in color.

    Ohhh.. I get it. .you carbonate water you get from here:
    http://www.blackwaterfalls.com/

    ps.. I really wanna go there, can I come along on your next water jug refill expedition?
  • YesIAm17
    YesIAm17 Posts: 817 Member
    Ice Mountain Bottled Spring Water (500ml size bottles)

    Thinking of getting some kind of filter instead soon.... ish.
  • mishtery
    mishtery Posts: 148
    Tap water here, otherwise bottled water when I'm out and forget my drink bottles.
  • HerkMeOff
    HerkMeOff Posts: 1,002 Member
    From the toilet
  • Jodyraedoula
    Jodyraedoula Posts: 69 Member
    I have a water filter. I fill up glass watter bottles. I but the voss watter bottles and they last me any where from 1 day to 6 months. I lose stuff alot... Some times I use my soda stream to make gass water.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Tap water at home (filtered through our freezer's ice maker), my store's bottled spring water at work
  • Karababy51
    Karababy51 Posts: 124 Member
    Our well water. Usually plain, it's delicious. But sometimes I put a little lemon juice in it. :)
  • 90to20
    90to20 Posts: 196 Member
    I live in North Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA we have one of the cleanest water supplies in the world! I drink tap water. I also like to add lemon and mint to my water :)
  • Vixy1989
    Vixy1989 Posts: 57 Member
    Tap water :) Its awesome here and required to be tested 3 times a month compared to the every 2 years most bottled water companies are required to :P
  • LibraryBatgirl
    LibraryBatgirl Posts: 61 Member
    I have a filtered tap from my fridge and a brita bottle for when I'm at work. Strait from the sink isn't horrible where I'm from in Kentucky but it can be a little metallic.
  • cpdiminish
    cpdiminish Posts: 84
    I would love to be able to drink tap water, even if it were filtered, but I'm sensitive to fluoride. Water filters don't get enough of it out, even the complex multiple-stage filter available at one of my grocery stores, so I have to buy spring water. So not what I'd like to be doing.
  • librarianjenne
    librarianjenne Posts: 66 Member
    I use a Brita filter and drink it at room temperature. Our tap water is heavily chlorinated and occasionally has a slight rainbow sheen on its surface. I don't really trust water that glimmers.
  • ashleyjohnstonn1
    ashleyjohnstonn1 Posts: 359 Member
    Whatever the water that comes out of my fridge is, lol
  • ahoier
    ahoier Posts: 312 Member
    Regular plain old tap water out of the spigot.....lol. Though I've been tempted to try one of those "Zero Water" filter pitchers....looks nifty that they give you a test kit to test the water before and after.......but in my current apartment, my fridge is kinda small....so was more leaning towards a faucet filter......but then everyone I ask says Nah don't worry about it, our city was is great......
  • stellasaur
    stellasaur Posts: 19 Member
    Tequila. It's safer.
  • Napier_mum
    Napier_mum Posts: 88 Member
    Our town tap water is pretty yummy. It comes from an aquifer so no gross taste. I like it cold so it goes in a bottle in the fridge.

    It would suck to not be able to drink water straight from the tap!

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