Pepsico has admitted to using tapwater in their Aquafina brand. Other brands are expected to come forward soon with more details on their methods of bottling, and the US government is expected to tighten controls on bottled water soon.
Fact of the matter is, if they sneak tap water into your bottled water...you shouldn't be upset. Our tap water is some of the safest in the world, and tests have shown no conclusive advantage in safety for bottle water, in fact, often tap water comes out as safer than bottled. Of the three countries in the world that use the most bottled water, the US, China and Mexico, we're number one, and we're also the only one of those three that has a completely safe tap water system of water.
Bottled water is ridiculous. Sure it has its uses, like on a camping trip or some such, but buying it, taking it home and drinking it there? It's absurb. You're throwing your money away and helping to hurt the environment for absolutely no good reason. I've railed against bottled water in the Green Energy thread for weeks, and you can see several articles in there about the dangers, excesses, and utter ridiculousness of bottled water.
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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I'll be happy to pass this along. Once to my dad who refuses to drink tap water, and once to a friend who may already be a card-carrying member of this organisation.
Me, I'm happy to be drinking tap.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I've never really had a need for buying bottled water. I can easily bottle it myself from the tap, and I've never had any problems with it.
Lyrhawn, I was wondering if you happen to know the various ratings for tap water quality in each state. I've heard that Denver has the best, but I've never seen an actual source report that.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I don't know the water quality ratings state by state off the top of my head, but I can go looking for that information when I get some time if you want. It's probably something you could find through the Department of Agriculture, the USGS, or the EPA.
Posted by otterk10 (Member # 10463) on :
Yes, bottled water may COME from tap water, but it is PURIFIED before it is distributed.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
quote:Yes, bottled water may COME from tap water, but it is PURIFIED before it is distributed.
There are easy ways to do that with carbon filters! That are cheaper and more environmentally friendly if you care that much.
Also if they as good as lied about where their water came from... do you really trust them to tell the truth about purifying it for you?
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
I do trust them when they claim they've purified it, the reason being it is good for business. The bottled water business is such that they have to strictly ensure that their product is uniform; that is, each bottle must taste exactly the same. The only way to accomplish this is to strip the water of all minerals (basically, distilling it, though IIRC they use a reverse osmosis process) and then adding back in certain amounts of trace minerals until they reach the desired taste profile. The water undergoes the same strict quality control that the other soda products do, not because they care about the customer, but they do care greatly about their bottom line, which would be hurt if their products weren't absolutely uniform. Aquafina may start as tap water, but it ends up something different. The only misleading part is that their advertising would lead you to believe the water comes from some spring, which isn't at all feasible considering the amount of water sold.
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
p.s. I personally think the idea of paying for water in a country with one of the best free water supplies in the world is completely ridiculous, but hey, that's capitalism.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Not all tap water is worth drinking in this country. For example, in Yuma, Arizona, the water has so much chlorine that it turns my stomach even to smell it. Most people there either buy or make reverse osmosis purified water.
Here in Ohio, I now have access to spring water, which tastes better than tap. I run it through a milk filter before drinking because otherwise it's a bit gritty, but otherwise it's good. If I lived in one of the areas around here that got its water from the Ohio River, I definitely wouldn't drink it. Ours comes from ground water, so I'll drink it if there's nothing else available.
I agree, though, that buying water in those small bottles is silly. If I buy water at all, I do it in at least 3 gallon containers at a time generally.
--Mel
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Is it bad at all that the first thought that came to my head when I read the topic title was vodka?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I like drinking bottled water at school when I need soemthing reusable and a cold drink during summer. But we get our water (for home use) from a fresh water well which we keepa closely guarded secret if you Americans come and try to take it.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I never bought bottled water until I moved to San Diego at the age of 22. The tap water there tasted NASTY. My whole life I'd ridiculed bottled water drinking, but there I was, buying a gallon of bottled water pretty much every day (for like 50 cents at the little convenience mart across the street).
Here in Omaha, I simply fill up water bottles with tap, and then throw them in the fridge. I think the primary reason why most people (who don't live in cities with nasty tap water) prefer the taste of bottled water is because they are always drinking it ice cold. Well, most tap water tastes pretty good when chilled too.
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
It really is different in different locations.
Tap water may be the safest in the US as a whole, but having lived in both rural and suburban locations, I can say that there really is a difference.
But there are filters for that that you can use for tap water at home, aren't there?
Posted by Shanna (Member # 7900) on :
Where I went to school, the water company would send out letters every once and awhile stating that young children or the elderly shouldn't drink the tap water. I'm in my prime but I still wouldn't drink the waters. I bought bottled water by the case while I was in the dorm and then bought some good filtered pitchers when I got a big enough fridge in my apartment.
Now I'm in New Orleans and with everything that's happened here, not to mention the freaking old pipes, I don't drink the tap water if I don't have to.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
In FL the sulfur level in tap water is high, at least in parts of the state.Even purified it tastes nasty.
In Ocala it is some of the best water in the nation, right out of a great aquifer, so it is one of many reasons I love living in Ocala. Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
quote:Not all tap water is worth drinking in this country. For example, in Yuma, Arizona, the water has so much chlorine that it turns my stomach even to smell it. Most people there either buy or make reverse osmosis purified water.
Reverse osmosis doesn't do anything to remove chlorine. It's a probably a carbon pre-filter that's taking the chlorine out. If you just want to remove the chlorine, carbon alone is a much less expensive and less wasteful method. Reverse osmosis produces a lot of waste water which typically goes right into the sewer when people make it at home.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Has Aquafina not always said "municipal source" on it? Many bottled waters have for years, and I usually only buy ones that do, but only drink it at home when it seems we have a slight rotten egg smell (we are on a well and pump, this happens).
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Wow, too much misinformation on this thread for me to start. I don't have enough energy to care right now. I drink tap water.
Of course, I also live in the Great Lakes basin. We are this world's Caladan.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Bottled water is ridiculous. Sure it has its uses, like on a camping trip or some such, but buying it, taking it home and drinking it there? It's absurb. You're throwing your money away and helping to hurt the environment for absolutely no good reason. I've railed against bottled water in the Green Energy thread for weeks, and you can see several articles in there about the dangers, excesses, and utter ridiculousness of bottled water.
This attitude is painfully ignorant. There are many people who suffer from a variety of conditions--IBS being the first that comes to mind--whose digestive systems are irritated by the pollutants and additives in tap water. Filtering the tap water helps, but does not resolve the issue.
Medical issues aside, bottled water has one great benefit: it tastes better. Better, frequently, than filtered tap water.
If you object to THAT, remember as you eat food grown through ridiculously harmful & convoluted agricultural & distribution practices for the sake of it tasting better that you're a bleeding heart hypocrite.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Dude, I thought we'd all known that much bottled water (unless it names its source) is tap water for AGES. But it's never bothered me; if I buy it, knowing what I'm getting, it's for my own reasons and it's my own choice.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
eros -
I don't think it tastes better, personally. I don't taste any difference at all. So thank you for giving me the moral superiority I needed to go on railing against it. I appreciate it. And if it's a medical issue then fine, make it so bottled water needs a prescription for purchasing. I think that'd eliminate billions from the industry.
I'll admit that much of the agricultural and distribution apparatus in the US, let alone the world is wasteful, but I can't get pineapple in Michigan, it isn't grown here, I can however get water here, I don't have to have it tanked up and driven here from Fiji, have it bottled, and then driven to the store to go buy it.
Anything else you want to personally assault me with?
And yes, it is your choice to buy bottled water, I just think we should all understand the consequences of our actions.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
If you live in China, you BETTER drink bottled water and make sure its from a reputable vendor. If the seal is not intact they probably just refilled the bottle with tap water.
If you feel like growing some interesting new bacteria cultures or protist colonies, using your stomach as their living room, by all means drink from the tap.
I have a Brita filter at home and I swear by it. But if I am at say an amusement park, I am going to buy bottled water as I can't bring my own canteen, and even if I could I have no good way of keeping the water nice and cold all day.
Finding out bottled water is often purified tap water does not bother me in the slightest, but as always its good to know its not water from some snow capped mountain spring.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:I don't think it tastes better, personally. I don't taste any difference at all. So thank you for giving me the moral superiority I needed to go on railing against it. I appreciate it.
quote:I'll admit that much of the agricultural and distribution apparatus in the US, let alone the world is wasteful, but I can't get pineapple in Michigan, it isn't grown here
At this point, I don't need to keep posting: you're doing my work for me in making yourself look ridiculous.
Posted by LargeTuna (Member # 10512) on :
Spring water is higher quality than tap water. its not necesarry, but there is a difference.
Posted by scholar (Member # 9232) on :
Depending on your water source, there can be trace amounts of medicinal drugs. In some rivers (where tap water may come from), there are effects on fish and sex rations due to the birth control pills, so it is possible that they could affect people. If your tap water source has those drugs (and the article I saw- hardcopy newspaper- tested the water as it came out, not at the source), I can see preferring bottled water for children. I also keep bottled water for potential emergencies and so occassionally drink the old water and replace with new water.
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
I don't really notice a difference. The only benefit of bottled water is well- the bottles. I love being at stadiums or other places and people say "You have anything to drink?" and I point to the water fountain. Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
First of all, I used to travel all the time for work. Every second or third week I would be out of town, anywhere in the western hemisphere. As anyone who has done it knows, that's an extremely stressful life, and I found out that I got sick far less often if I didn't drink the local tap water. I drank sodas or bottled water and was fine. If I drank tap water I would get sick. It didn't take me long to be trained not to touch tap water.
Then the next thing that happened is that it started being true at home too. If I drank tap water I would get sick in a day or two. That's actually rather a problem for me because I'm Mormon and don't drink coffee or tea, and I try to avoid caffeine. Plus I'm diabetic so sweet sodas make me thirstier than I would be if I drank nothing at all. So about the only thing I can drink in many places (since caffeine free diet sodas are rare to find in restaurants) is bottled water.
I found that if I boil the water at home it's fine and doesn't make me sick. Also, for some unknown reason, freezing it in ice, then drinking the ice in a caffeine free soda or bottled water, also causes no problems. I'm not sure why that's so, but that's what I've observed.
I have a friend who is a Civil Engineer who specializes in waste water treatment plants. She told me that sometimes when it seems the whole city comes down with the intestinal flu (or what my mother called the upchucking virus) at once, that it actually is something in the water supply that slipped through. Having done work at such plants before, I can testify that they aren't 100% perfect. Also, people are mostly immune to their local bugs. Because of the time I spent traveling, I'm not immune. I could possibly become immune again if I were willing to suffer through a few weeks of vomiting and nausea. The problem is, every time I try, I get to the point when I'm really nauseated and I can't bring myself to keep drinking tap water. I just stop. Then I get well.
My understanding is that people in Europe rarely drink tap water. I think that perhaps they've learned that in places with long human habitation and high population, it's best not to drink anything that isn't alcoholic or hasn't been recently boiled. Hence the fondness for tea and wine.
Sometimes I drink "white tea", meaning boiled water that hasn't been steeped in anything. Just plain hot water out of the kettle. That works just fine.
I think people who rail against bottled water themselves have good results with tap water so they should continue to do what works for them. However, I don't think they know what they're saying when they want to dictate that for everyone. They haven't taken all the information that's out there into account, and haven't had the personal experiences of sickness from tap water, so they really aren't able to judge.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:My understanding is that people in Europe rarely drink tap water. I think that perhaps they've learned that in places with long human habitation and high population, it's best not to drink anything that isn't alcoholic or hasn't been recently boiled.
Part of it is also that American tap water is quite possibly the finest in the world, so people in other countries can be excused for not liking theirs as much. Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
quote:I don't think it tastes better, personally. I don't taste any difference at all. So thank you for giving me the moral superiority I needed to go on railing against it. I appreciate it.
quote:I'll admit that much of the agricultural and distribution apparatus in the US, let alone the world is wasteful, but I can't get pineapple in Michigan, it isn't grown here
At this point, I don't need to keep posting: you're doing my work for me in making yourself look ridiculous.
I'm sure I can make you look ridiculous too by cutting up your sentences to make them say whatever.
I don't get why you're so hostile over this issue. Are you taking personal offense, or are you just in a crappy mood?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Nature Spirits Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Norwegian tapwater is of much higher quality than the American stuff; it tastes fresh and clean. In this country I don't drink water.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Question -- I was under the impression that in the US, while you have to divulge the ingredients of edible products, you don't have to divulge the origin of those ingredients. For instance, you don't have to say whether the citric acid comes from oranges or corn, whether the sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beets, or whether the water comes from the tap or a pristine mountain stream.
The article hinted some about it, but I don't really understand what has changed making it so that Aquafina needed to say where their water is coming from.
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
quote:Originally posted by King of Men: Norwegian tapwater is of much higher quality than the American stuff; it tastes fresh and clean. In this country I don't drink water.
I didn't notice that Norwegian water tasted particularly fresh, but where I live (Provo, UT) the tap water is very clean, even by US standards.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:I don't think it tastes better, personally. I don't taste any difference at all.
Then, by all accounts, you are a lucky man.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
s: On the other hand, tap water is fluoridated which may be amenable to children that are growing teeth.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Question -- I was under the impression that in the US, while you have to divulge the ingredients of edible products, you don't have to divulge the origin of those ingredients. For instance, you don't have to say whether the citric acid comes from oranges or corn, whether the sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beets, or whether the water comes from the tap or a pristine mountain stream.
The article hinted some about it, but I don't really understand what has changed making it so that Aquafina needed to say where their water is coming from.
I think that is the case, but it's being talked about in government right now because of China. What with all the health and safety issues China has had lately, there's a big rumbling to make it so you have to label where EVERYTHING in an item comes from, so in case you're buying food made in America but with bits and pieces of imported food from 15 different countries, they all have to be listed, because so much of what we consume is Chinese, and because of bad PR, a lot of people are freaking out.
But I think the argument for bottled water is closer to false advertising.
Posted by Kettricken (Member # 8436) on :
quote:My understanding is that people in Europe rarely drink tap water. I think that perhaps they've learned that in places with long human habitation and high population, it's best not to drink anything that isn't alcoholic or hasn't been recently boiled.
That certainly isn't true in the UK. Tap water is much more commonly drunk than bottled water.
I drink 99% tap water. I only buy bottled water when I’m away from home and need a drink. I then re use the water bottles with tap water, so it might look to a casual observer that I’m drinking bottled water, but it is tap water.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
quote:On the other hand, tap water is fluoridated which may be amenable to children that are growing teeth.
Impurifying our precious bodily fluids!
I heard on AP News that Seattle is, or is thinking about, restricting bottled water sales in the city. Can't find anything to back that up though.
[ July 30, 2007, 10:40 AM: Message edited by: vonk ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I believe it was San Francisco which banned the purchase of bottled water with city money a few months ago.
Of course, the headlines just said that the city was banning bottled water. Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I do the same thing my parents do -- buy the occasional case of bottled water and refill the bottles until they get lost or smashed.
Tap water in my hometown is excellent. Not so much in New Orleans. But I still drink it.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson:
quote:My understanding is that people in Europe rarely drink tap water. I think that perhaps they've learned that in places with long human habitation and high population, it's best not to drink anything that isn't alcoholic or hasn't been recently boiled.
Part of it is also that American tap water is quite possibly the finest in the world, so people in other countries can be excused for not liking theirs as much.
Since I have worked with water quality research center, I can authoritatively tell you that both assertions are wrong. The quality of tap water in Western Europe exceeds the quality of tap water pretty much everywhere in the US. Tap water in western Europe is ozonated rather than chlorinated. Since ozone doesn't leave a residual in the water the way chlorine does, they also have to eliminate all the organic material in the water to prevent baterial growth between the treatment plant and your house. The resulting water tastes better and is quantifiably far purer than American tap water.
Still, many Europeans like to drink bottled water even though they know that tap water is cleaner. Some of it is out of habit arising from a past where water wasn't safe to drink. A great deal of it is because many people prefer carbonated water (unlike Americans). Most of the Germans I know drink tap water at home but bottled water when they are at work. They also complain bitterly about how bad the water tastes when they come to the US. They even complain about the chlorine taste in the Coke you get with ice in it.
While I agree that drinking bottled water in the US is wasteful and completely unnecessary, Americans need to obsolve themselves of the dilusion that the US has the finest water quality in the world. We don't. Check the facts.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Dilusion: A delusion that's been diluted by too much water! Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
As an aside, I've never much liked the taste of US water, especialyl in Provo, UT, too many minerals. Yet the drinking fountain water in Hong Kong to me is absolutely delicious.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: As an aside, I've never much liked the taste of US water, especialyl in Provo, UT, too many minerals. Yet the drinking fountain water in Hong Kong to me is absolutely delicious.
If you can taste the minerals in the Provo UT water over the chlorine, you've got extraordinary taste buds.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Lyrhan. Come to San Jose and drink some of our nasty tap water. Come and Taste the Superfund.
Then I'll show you the ice machine in our freezer. I have to clean it out every couple of months because of the white waxy build up that is left behind after the ice sublimates a way a bit. Heck, we can put some of that ice in your drink so you can watch it float around.
Now, if I was back home in The Natural State, I'd be drinking the tap water. It tastes like tap water should. Fresh, with a hint of algae. It's almost sweet. Of course, I believe you've called my home state an environmental disaster because of Tyson Foods, so maybe you wouldn't want to drink that tap water either. (Which is too bad because it really does taste wonderful.)
Pix
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit:
quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: As an aside, I've never much liked the taste of US water, especialyl in Provo, UT, too many minerals. Yet the drinking fountain water in Hong Kong to me is absolutely delicious.
If you can taste the minerals in the Provo UT water over the chlorine, you've got extraordinary taste buds.
Well, I don't like to brag or anything. Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
BlackBlade's like the rat in that movie! Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Pix -
When did I call Arkansas an environmental disaster?
I'd be okay with a tax on a state by state basis on bottled water if the money were used entirely to upgrade the quality of the drinking water from the tap. Given the number of bottles of water sold in the country, it wouldn't have to be a very big tax at all. There should at least be a bottle return thing so more people would recycle them.
mph -
It's more than just San Fran, several West coast cities have banned the purchase of bottled water with public funds.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Lyr: I might be confusing you with someone else. But one of the people from Big Environment called NW Arkansas an environmental disaster due to chicken litter (organic fertilizer). I guess birds don't poop in their state.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: Also, for some unknown reason, freezing it in ice, then drinking the ice in a caffeine free soda or bottled water, also causes no problems.
As water freezes, some of the impurities are excluded from the crystal. It's one of the methods of desalinizing water.
quote:Originally posted by Mucus: s: On the other hand, tap water is fluoridated which may be amenable to children that are growing teeth.
Bottled water can be easily found in fluoridated varieties.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:But I think the argument for bottled water is closer to false advertising.
How so? Do they say the water comes from a spring or a mountain brook?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Some of them strongly imply it.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Implying stuff that you don't say is par for the course for marketing pretty much anything.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
True. I consider quite a bit of the stuff in beauty product ads (particularly skin creams and shampoo/conditioners) to skirt the line awfully closely as well.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Skirting but not crossing it is the name of the game in a lot of industries.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
We don't drink our tap water. It's absolutely horrid stuff. My husband, who has a much more sensitive nose, is convinced that lately it smells like raw chicken. *shudder* It is not healthy stuff. Not only is there way too much chlorine in it, sometimes they send out notices about how there's too much of something in the water by standards, but it's really nothing to worry about because the standards are so low anyway. Uh... no thanks!
I drink my mother's tap water, though. She lives 2 1/2 hours away. I guess her city just does a better job of treating the water.
But at home, we buy 3 liters of Deer Park, in the clear plastic jugs. The frosted plastic jugs end up tasting like plastic. Ick. But the clear plastic doesn't cause that problem.
I really don't care that America supposedly has spectacular tap water--MY town certainly doesn't.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Our tap in the kitchen for some reason tastes okay (but we still filter it) but the other day my daughter brought me a drink from the bathroom sink-- it tasted like BLEACH! *gag*
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I live in Fort Worth. Can anyone tell me if it's normal for your tap water to smell like mud or standing water, and is it normal for it to get really potent when it rains? (Our water is river water.) I don't drink it because the flavor makes me gag. It tastes really...umm...dirty.
[ August 02, 2007, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
People!
Never drink gross water again. I honestly used to scoff at Tiffany when she claimed her water was better then what I was drinking, I had to eat my words (or drink them in this case.)
It was worth every dollar getting one.
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
I don't know anything about Forth Worth water, but in several regions the flavor and scent of algae or sediment from the water source will survive the filtration and treatment process. This doesn't mean the water isn't clean, just that it's not very tasty. A charcoal filter like the Brita stuff at Walmart would probably help.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Yeah, I have a Brita pitcher and tap filter. Absolutely love it. Clean water without the chemicle taste.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Of the three countries in the world that use the most bottled water, the US, China and Mexico, we're number one, and we're also the only one of those three that has a completely safe tap water system of water.
Personally, I wouldn't call a water system that has frequent boil warnings "completely safe." And since my water system is part of the United States, by extension the United States does not have a completely safe tap water system.
I refuse to drink the local tap water anymore. I can't be running to the post office to see if it's safe every time I want to get a drink.
--Mel
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
Our tap water is fine, but we still filter it through our refrigerator. We also have a water softening system in our house, that is nice since I have such dry skin.
I do still buy bottled water when I am out and need something to drink.
When I lived in Texas while in High School, the water was yellow and smelled of sulfur. It was disgusting.
Posted by scholar (Member # 9232) on :
At work, the drinking fountains are not drinkable. They always taste funny. Even letting it run for a little while doesn't work. The water is still brown. I filled my dog's water dish with drinking fountain once and was disgusted by the layer of dirt that settled on the bottom. He wouldn't drink it. So, I got to do the snobby pouring bottled water for the dog thing.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I can barely stand bottled water. I think it tastes horrible. I only drink it when I have no other choice. I lived in France for 2 years and drank tap water the whole time. Didn't have any adverse reactions. *twitch*
I do second the Brita thing, though. That just tastes good.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
Disney World has some of the worst water on the planet. Is that because they want you to buy bottled water?
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
I favour the Brita filter, especially since I've moved to a place that has hard water. I grew up not very far from what locals hold up as the best public water in Canada, and our water was not much worse than theirs. The notion of having so much stuff in this water really kind of disturbs me.
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