Bottled water V Tap water

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  • Irish_Lanie
    Irish_Lanie Posts: 99
    I use the brita water filters at home and bring my own water with me, etc.
  • AnnyaSB
    AnnyaSB Posts: 233 Member
    Tap all the way. We are very luck yin that out water comes straight from the water table via borehole and is always freezing cold, clear as a bell and taste of nothing (which is what water shoudl taste of!). If we go away anywhere for the day I fill up a 5 litre bottle and take it with me as I can't stand the taste of ordinary tap water now.

    Where we lived before we had plain tap water and I used a Britta filter jug to get rid of the horrible chlorine taste in it - yuk!!
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Tap water is equal to or better than much of the bottled stuff and there's not plastic bottle to dispose of. I use a reverse osmosis system, mostly just to remove the chlorine taste (a Brita filter would probably do just fine too)
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    I drink bottled. Our tap water here tastes terrible, like straight chlorine, so it's bottled or nothing for me.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    Tap water!!!

    Reasons why:
    1. Regulations on tap water are more stringent
    2. Most tap water is fluoridated and can help protect your teeth
    3. Millions of plastic bottles will not be headed to the landfill because of you
    4. It's free (well, I'm generalizing, I realize most homeowners pay a water bill of some kind)

    Cheap, safe, enviro friendly. What more could you ask for?

    Agree 100%!!!!!
  • lorac321
    lorac321 Posts: 614 Member
    In most areas of the United States, the purity regulations pertaining to tap water are more stringent than those for bottled.

    This, you can look it up on the internet.
  • zaithyr
    zaithyr Posts: 482 Member
    I drink tap water, but I've also never had my tap water coming from a well. Everyone I know who has well water uses a water cooler with the 5 gallon refillable jugs for drinking.

    I've lived in apartments where the water quality was questionable...either tasted or looked funny, so for those I had a Brita (or Pur?) pitcher to keep in my fridge.

    I don't do bottled water anymore because of the price as well as the environmental impact (on top of the plastic, bottled water is heavy to ship from place to place).

    My grandma has well water (she lives waaaay out in the sticks) and I thought it was the best water I've ever tasted! Can't speak for the filtration but it was good lol
  • nichalsont
    nichalsont Posts: 421 Member
    I read the label of a bottle of Great Value water. The source was the municipal water supply of Plainfield, Indiana. Even when you think you are drinking bottled water, it could be tap water.
  • newyorker87
    newyorker87 Posts: 1
    While I agree that tap water is the way to go, sometimes you need/want to take your beverage on the go! That's why I fill my custom water bottle ( http://www.motivators.com/Promotional-SportBottles-Custom-13-344.html ) at the faucet at the beginning of every day. It's a good compromise :).

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