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    Bottled water choice???

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    • Posts: 16
      Bottled water seems to be all around bad! It's bad for the environment, its expensive, and there are long-term health effects of BPA and phthalates that leach from the plastics.
    • Posts: 61 Member
      I mostly drink filtered tap water in my Camelbak 750ml bottle. Fill it up about 4 times a day :)

      Fuji is probably the best tasting and quality, but the cost is astronomical compared to other bottled water and ever more so compared to filtered or tap water.
    • Posts: 212 Member
      Whatever is onsale...as most are "from public water sources..." My fav is Dasani, just because...this week its Nestle Pure Life (Kroger had them onsale).

      Cheers!

      Oh thx! We by deer pk at Costco b/c it's cheapest there for a big box
    • Posts: 699 Member
      My tap water is filtered. I fill up old bottles and keep cold water in the fridge and try not to waste money on plastic.
    • Posts: 254 Member
      I have a Camelback that has a filter on it...that bottle goes with me every where I go. I have to change my filter every month since it is only good for 300 refills. My family bought this for me at Christmas and since we have saved $$$$ on bottled water. We also keep a Brita pitcher filled in our refrigerator which we all drink from.
    • Posts: 408 Member
      Bottled water seems to be all around bad! It's bad for the environment, its expensive, and there are long-term health effects of BPA and phthalates that leach from the plastics.

      I agree!

      I bought two BPA free plastic 3 gallon jugs from Whole Foods and I fill them up there at the 39 cents per gallon purified water dispenser. Then I pour into the glass water bottle I bought (http://www.lifefactory.com/adults.html -- it is covered on the outside so it doesn't break when I drop it, and I DO drop it...and it has a handy little handle on top) and take it around with me everywhere I go :)
    • Posts: 36 Member
      Fiji water is first choice.
      Smart water second choice.
      Filtered Tap water with any of the 6 Mio flavors. Third choice.

      If you haven't tried Mio in your water you need to. It is great.
    • Posts: 559 Member
      I like Dasani - it is purified by reverse osmosis and has minerals added for taste.

      They also add SALT to make u drink more of their product. Just a random fact.
    • Posts: 531 Member
      I am super picky about water. I only like certain brands, based soley on it's taste to me. My personal favorites are Aquafina and Dasani. I only drink bottled water when I am out running around. At home I drink filtered tap and at work I drink delivered bottled water.
    • Posts: 116
      I drink filtered tap water. Much cheaper and greener than bottled with the same clean flavor.
    • Posts: 268 Member
      If I have to have bottled water, then Dasani. But since I am at home most of the day I just refill my water bottle with our water here. Not tap water (it has a funny taste) but we get the big water bottles that go on the water cooloers, and we have a pump for it. There is always a jug of cold water in the fridge ready to drink.
    • Posts: 656 Member
      Fuji....hands down. (AWESOME taste) Personally I can not stand Aquafina...that whole quote makes me cringe, too....lol
      OOPS...FIJI....lol
    • Posts: 81 Member
      I think it depends a lot on personal taste. I can't stand filtered water so I always look for spring water - Evian, Nestle, Real Canadian, President's Choice. Just not filtered.

      I would drink tap water (and have when I lived in different areas) but ours tastes like chlorine. See above re: filtering. :)

      And I recycle my empty bottles.
    • Posts: 945 Member
      Ok.. so Im sitting there drinking my 8th or so bottle of Aquafina for the day when I read on the label that "Aquafina originates from public water sources...." purified, of course.

      What is your choice for bottled water & why?

      Since I consider your opinions more valuable then Google, thought I throw this one out.

      Thanks in advance!

      XOX
      Jen

      you know, I buy a case of water and will drink what's in the bottle, but i refill it/them at least 20 or 30 times out of my refrigerator. Eventually, after a couple of months or so, I have to buy a new case (bottles are for convenience) but I prefer my fridge water now more than any store brand.
    • Posts: 1,696 Member
      We have a water cooler in the office, and i use tap water at home!

      People who know me will be shocked by this because i used to only drink evian ! but all those plastic bottles! i now spend less money, not just on water but on petrol taking the bottles to be recycled ..
    • Posts: 1,030 Member
      Tap water all the way!! There is a noticeable taste difference depending where in the country you are, but I figure, why pay for bottled when we pay water rates for tap water! The only time I ever buy bottled, if if I've drunk the water I have with me and can't find a drinking water tap to refil from - then it's whatever bottled water is going cheap.
    • Posts: 585 Member
      Dasani when I'm out and about because their bottles are nice and sturdy and last a long time. You see, I use their bottles and just refill them with our own delicious tap water and keep them in the fridge. Grab and go and my wallet is padded from the money I save not being scammed into thinking bottled water is better than or anything other than my tap water. They add minerals for taste because it's tap water from somewhere with a bad taste. Our tap water is good, if it wasn't I'd get a Britta filter and still use my Dasani bottles to store it in.
    • Posts: 129 Member
      I use a brita water filter. If I'm going out and about and want to take water with me, I put it in an aluminum (I think) water bottle I have. It's cheaper, and there's no worries about all that plastic going to the dump.
    • Posts: 322 Member
      my choice is "smartwater". I'm one of those people that insists that water has a 'taste'. And to me, smartwater 'tastes' the best.
    • Posts: 45 Member
      I've also used Zero water which is actually a purifing system. It worked well in that regard but we had the dispenser kind not the pour kind and it kept leaking.
    • Posts: 524
      i drink tap water at home and at work. chicago has tasty tap water.

      when i am out and about it is figi if i am grabbing a bottle of water.
    • Posts: 1,103 Member
      Oh please don't drink bottled water unless you have to and/or if you refill it and recycle it!! Watch the Documentary "Tapped" and you will see why!

      Buy a Pur water system at home and one for the office and use metal water bottle you can take everywhere!!
    • Posts: 17,299 Member
      I only drink bottled water on rare occasions such as traveling. I have a Brita water filter on my tap at home. Saves on money and less trash to throw away.
    • Posts: 2,560 Member
      I love dasani water or sam's choice. I like the taste better. I'm not a fan of aquafina or ozarka. I think they taste icky and I hate hate hate nestle water. I think it tastes like dirt's in it. So if the store doesn't have dasani I won't buy water there because I know if I don't like the taste I won't drink it
    • Posts: 2,560 Member
      The water here is very hard, I couldn't even make tea and have it taste good. In fact, the tap water here ruined most of my dishes. I just got a brita water filter. I can't imagine anyone here actually drinking the tap water.
    • Posts: 22 Member
      When I am at home I drink tap water. When I am out and about and buy water it is 1) Fiji or 2) Smart Water.
    • Posts: 6 Member
      :tongue:
      We just use tap through a Britta filter.

      Same here. Sometimes I don't even filter it - oh the horror! :tongue: If I am out-and-about running errands, traveling, etc. and stop for water, I tend to go for SmartWater or Fiji.
    • Posts: 43
      I usually just drink tap water. But, I worked for a while delivering bottled water, so I can tell you this:

      If a brand is labeled "spring water", that means that it actually comes from a spring somewhere, is filtered and bottled. If it's labeled "drinking water", that means that it's essentially tap water that's been run through some purification process.
    • Posts: 2,579 Member
      Throwing away money and killing the environment with thousands of bottles a year (at least 1460 bottles a person if you are drinking 8 glasses/4 bottles a day as recommended) - I don't think so.

      Filter my fridge door and a Sigg.
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