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How much thought/money do you put into the water you drink?
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The point I'm making is humans shouldn't be drinking water that animals defecate in without filtering0
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I use personal distiller and drink purest water possible. Would not drink store-bought didtilled water stored in those funky plastic milk jugs. That water tastes terrible. I use distilled water for other purposes, so might as well distill enough to drink. Also make ice cubes from it instead of auto ice maker.0
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Our well was tested when we bought our house 10 years ago and met the criteria for safety. I haven't considered testing it again. My "city friend" told me that our water tastes sweet. I figured that was better than "sour."0
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I lived through the cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee many years ago. SE Wisconsin cities have some of the safest tap water because of the upgrades they did as a result. On the other hand, it doesn't taste the best because of the chlorine and chloramine used. I have a 1 gallon Pur filter dispenser that stays in my fridge. Except the cost of the dispenser, I spend about $5 per 2 months on new filters. I have no need to spend anything more on water.0
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I drink it straight from the tap and don't give it a second thought. But I also grew up in a time when all kids drank water from garden hoses, long before the fearmongering about that practice began. I guess because they never told us we could die from it, none of us ever did.0
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Where I live, they are always announcing "boil water" notices on the 6 PM news for various areas of the state. That usually means the bacteria count from coming from sewage treatment plant is too high to be safe by government regulations. Happens so regularly, I won't drink tap water.0
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I've got 3 spigots. Regular tap water for dishes, Unsoftened & filtered water for drinking, and reverse osmosis water for tea, ice cubes & coffee.0
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summerkissed wrote: »We drink creek water.....no filter, no testing! Our water is tannin stained so it's a brown color, the cows poo in it lol, animals drink from it and yup we drink it!......we also have very strong tummies and excellent immune systems.....ours kids have only had gastro once in there lives (as young kids when we were living in city) even when gastro and bugs go around school the kids don't pick them up! We think it's because they are exposed to the bugs and it's enough to build up our immune systems! We do buy bottles water if we are staying in the city because we can't handle the taste and smell of the chlorine!
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Water is water. Unless it's coffee. Usually, for me, it's coffee.
I've probably added two pounds to my weight in just absorbed lead and cadmium, still don't care.0 -
We have a water cooler at home and at work. At work we get RO water delivered, but at home we refill the 5 gallon bottles at the grocery store RO station because its cheaper. I've moved around a lot, and tap water is always a little different everywhere you go. I don't think there's anything unhealthy about tap, but I prefer the consistency of my RO.0
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I gave up juice and soda a couple of years ago and now drink water and coffee exclusively. I'm picky about my water and prefer room temperature bottled water with True Lemon for flavor. Aquafina is my favorite because I can buy a 32 pack for 4.99 and it tastes better to me than any of the other brands I've tried.
I bought a Brita faucet filter last December thinking I'd save money that way, but I still can't stand the taste of our tap water. It always smells like a swimming pool coming out, and I can't bring myself to drink it.0 -
I just drink our tap water (UK).
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I drink it straight from the tap and don't give it a second thought. But I also grew up in a time when all kids drank water from garden hoses, long before the fearmongering about that practice began. I guess because they never told us we could die from it, none of us ever did.
Yeah, we did that too, no related deaths!0 -
I'm fine with the tap water unless it tastes nasty - it does where my parents live, though the water is safe. I won't drink any water in their county that isn't filtered post-tap.
You won't catch me drinking any water in my area that hasn't been treated. Drink from a creek or any ground water around here and you're about guaranteed to get giardia as my previous dogs could attest.0 -
In my humble opinion, it must be either bottled and (if possible) refrigerated, or RO (again, cold if possible).
Bottled water isn't necessarily better. Often, it actually has lower standards than local municipal water purification. Just go with tap, you'll be safer (unless you're in Flint, or the Navajo reservation)0 -
What is RO?
We drink a combination of filtered and bottled water. The bottled water is a necessity because our cats are jerks and I have a thyroid med to take before I get up.
Wait...why not just have a re-fillable water bottle with a top?
Also, plastic water bottles are pretty awful for you.0 -
Mapalicious wrote: »In my humble opinion, it must be either bottled and (if possible) refrigerated, or RO (again, cold if possible).
Bottled water isn't necessarily better. Often, it actually has lower standards than local municipal water purification. Just go with tap, you'll be safer (unless you're in Flint, or the Navajo reservation)
The municipalities that have an issue are very few and far between. Have you heard of any major breakouts like the one we had in Milwaukee since that happened in the early 90's? I haven't. Bad city water is very much the exception rather than the rule.0 -
Tap water and bottled.0
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Only to the extent I buy bottle water tor trips.0
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I spend $103 every three months for water. Which is my water utility bill...0
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This is my primary concern. What blend of hops, malt, and barley I filter my water through before ingesting.
So so many options...0 -
I don't like the taste of water, so I usually don't drink it plain. We use the fridge filter for cooking water, and I have one brand of bottled that I can stand to drink cold, and that's it for us.0
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Mapalicious wrote: »In my humble opinion, it must be either bottled and (if possible) refrigerated, or RO (again, cold if possible).
Bottled water isn't necessarily better. Often, it actually has lower standards than local municipal water purification. Just go with tap, you'll be safer (unless you're in Flint, or the Navajo reservation)
The municipalities that have an issue are very few and far between. Have you heard of any major breakouts like the one we had in Milwaukee since that happened in the early 90's? I haven't. Bad city water is very much the exception rather than the rule.
Unless you live next door to the water treatment plant. I grew up next to one, and after the Rainsoft guy took a sample of our water back with him because his portable unit couldn't filter it fully, I wouldn't drink the tap water any more!0 -
Tap water. It has 2 hydrogen atoms to every oxygen atom as any other water and that works for me.0
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I'm in the UK in a soft water area. It is pretty much all I drink water wise. I think bottled water is nothing but a rip off.0
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We have a Brita pitcher but it's really only to keep water cold in the fridge - I'm certain we don't change our filter half as often as you're supposed to. I drink tap water if someone emptied the pitcher and didn't refill it, and we make our ice cubes and coffee with straight tap water. At work we have a huge ice/water dispenser, but I've got no idea if it's filtered or if it's just straight tap water and I honestly don't care that much. We get Lake Michigan water that goes through some excellent water treatment plants, though, so it's pretty darn good water.
I only drink bottled water if it's absolutely 100% the only option at the time. I bring a reusable container with me to refill and drink from whenever I can. The plastic waste from bottled water and the damage that it does to our planet is downright disgusting, not to mention the expense. I truly can't understand people who frequently/exclusively drink bottled water when there are safe and generally palatable tap options available.0 -
I use a zero water filter. It's not very expensive... 30$ for two filters, and I keep it in the refrigerator. That's the secret to making the filters last longer.
I live in the central us. Our water isn't too bad. I don't like fluoride or all those other trace minerals in my water though. And our water is very hard. The filter helps to soften it.
I don't cry over drinking tap when I'm at work, but lately, I've become more aware to what's in my body and am trying to only drink filtered and eat organic.
I've also taken to healthy pre filtered beverages such as kombucha, to help balance my pH for when I'm unable to drink better waters.
Although I'm brewing my own kombucha, it's a long process and I still buy it bottled from time to time.0 -
The point I'm making is humans shouldn't be drinking water that animals defecate in without filtering
If that was true the human race would have died out thousands of years ago!! I know it sounds rank but fact is our bodies are equipped to build immunity to bacteria like that! I'm talking clean creek water here like nature intended!!0 -
'If that was true the human race would have died out thousands of years ago!! I know it sounds rank but fact is our bodies are equipped to build immunity to bacteria like that! I'm talking clean creek water here like nature intended!'
This is true... Probiotics are a very important part of older nutritional lifestyles. I'm glad your body can handle that water. However many normal people nowadays couldn't handle this type of water.
Call it evolution or just dietary changes, but our bodies really can't handle that bacterial disaster unless we eat the right things.
Sure, we could make it a possibility. What with the probiotics in kombucha, yogurt, kefir, vinegar, fermented foods, etc. We can build a stronger immunity.
People today have it easy, with tap water that's precleaned and fancy vegetable washers and scrubbers and refrigerators.0
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