Stop Buying Bottled Water

My tap water tastes like plastic chemicals and filtering it has not helped. So I buy two or three 24 packs of cheap purified battled water each week. Usually about $3 per pack.

What I think is sad is that people would rather just spend more money on bottled water than do something about it in regards to their local government.

If the water coming out of your tap is so bad not even a Brita filter will help why don't you do something about that?

There isn't much the government or anyone can do about that here. It's the source that causes the high sulfur taste/smell. It isn't as bad in Tallahassee (more inland) than other parts of the state, but it's still not tasty. It isn't so much that it is dangerous. It just tastes bad.

Yep. No bottled water. Screw convenience.

In fact, we should all go back to subsistence farming too. Same reasons. Things were much better for the human race then!

Yeah. And if we could only forget how to make a washing machine and undo all the damage it has done to interpersonal relationships!

<<<<from the tap drinker!

Is there a bigger waste of money than paying for bottled water? We spend about 800 times more for bottled water than plain old tap water. And if you don't like the taste of tap water, buy a filter -- it's still cheaper than the bottled variety.

Thank you for your concern. I would venture to say cigars are a bigger waste of money. At least water won't harm you physically.

There are TIMES when bottled water is needed.

Camping
Road trip where you don't want soda (I bring my cup filled up but it runs out quickly and I'll be damned if I fill it up with gas station bathroom tap water.
I have to have my water ice cold.

I have a filter at home and love it.

I keep jugs of water at work - the "filtered" water is yellow. Thanks, but no thanks.

Also, the water in my apartment is very hard and has a sulfuric smell and taste. Again, no thanks.

My old apartment was fine. No issues with tap water. Just put some in a jug, stick it in the fridge and drink it cold, but not this place. Ew.

Why are old people so bossy>

I drink water, (sometimes filtered sometimes not) if I do not like the taste then I by a bottle of something else (beer bourbon and other such commodities).

I buy it and will continue to do so if for no other reason than the convenience.
I go through about 1 case a week, sometimes a bit more and at $4.00 a case it really isn't a big deal.

if you're worried about wasting money how about those stogies that you're smoking, talk about burning through $$$! :bigsmile:

Wow, I can imagine how much easier it is to get in your car, drive to the store, pick up a couple of crates, pay for them, pack them in your car, and dive home than it is to turn on your tap and fill up a filter jug or reusable bottle. FML!

Oh by the way. The reason not to buy bottled water if you live somewhere that has safe tap water isn't about cost.... well, monetary cost anyway. It's about the huge amount of waste from the bottles (no matter what you've been told, plastic bottles are not sustainable). It's about the natural springs that don't feed into rivers because the water is being removed before it gets that far. It's about the fact that *some* bottled water is actually bad for you, the safty standard of bottled water is LOWER than that of tap water in many places. The final reason is the energy cost. Bottled water production in the United States used the energy equivalent of 32 and 54 million barrels of oil to produce and transport plastic water bottles in 2007.

But if you are the type of american that the rest of the world steriotypes you as (lazy, self centred, selfish, and stupid) then you carry on. After all, some people do just like to watch the world burn.

http://www.onlineeducation.net/bottled_water

Butthurt much?
Just to clarify I don't make a special trip to the store for water.
I also might have some insight that you might not have, see, I supervise construction of roads, bridges and infrastructure. That includes water lines... I see what municipal water lines look like on the INSIDE when we have to make a repair or a tap. So please continue drinking all of the municipal water that you can!

Oh yeah, when I'm done with a bottle I try to always throw it out the window of my truck, preferable at a puppy or kitten...

Blessed to live in Racine with clean running water out of my kitchen tap...

"RACINE - The city's tap water has been hailed as the best tasting city water in the country, beating out four other finalists and netting $15,000 for Racine to publicize its water."

In Asia we have "tanks" at home where you store water since the government releases water periodically. A friend of mine found out his tank had a dead cat in it and had been there for about a week at least.

No thanks. I even cook my food with bottled water. And I am being 100% serious.

OMG ... NASTY!!!! I wouldn't even want to bathe in that water. How on earth did it get in there ?

Actually, water is stored in huge above-ground water tanks here in the US. It's not uncommon to find a dead bird or two floating on the water stored in the tanks (oh the joys of getting an engineering degree to learn all these fun facts). One thing to remember is that most municipalities chlorinate their water to kill off microbes and the chlorine effect generally sustains throughout the water distribution system all the way to your tap. Water municipalities are required to produce water that is both potable and palatable; however, the palatable part is sometimes subjective as noted by some people here who have horrible tasting ( and smelling) water. Additionally, water sources can be exposed to surface or subsurface contamination such as cryptosporidium, cyanobacteria, ghiardia, and poly-aromatic hydrocarbons to say the least. Don't forget the big stink about fluoride added to the water (in concentrations of less than 4.0 mg/L mind you) which some people object to. There is also the idea of endocrine disrupters in the water sources that come from excreted birth control pills, blood pressure medication and anti-depression meds that make it's way from waterwater treatment system outfalls back into the surface and subsurface drinking water sources (yes people - we ultimately drink the water than we flush down the toilet). We could even discuss the thought of carcinogenic trihalomethanes produced when the humic material in surface water comes into contact with chlorine. Still, I will drink water from the tap. Sincerely, Debbie Downer

I use filtered water from the fridge at home, a stainless steal bottle to take with me when I leave in the morning and a bobble bottle at work if I need to refill from the water fountains because they do indeed taste like crap. Basically I decided it would be incredibly hypocritical of me to spend an entire unit going over marine pollution in class while congruently quaffing innumerable amounts of bottled water, the caps and rings of which 9 times out of 10 end up in the oceans, recycling or no recycling.