Are you into bottled waters?

We have a whole house salt system which works great for drinking/cooking, laundry, hygiene. A lot less soap and other products needed.

We always have a stock of bottled water in the trucks and for contractors. A small cooler has been sitting on the front porch with a sticker "free water, agua gratis" forever. It is empty almost everyday especially in summer. Cooler never disappeared:)
 

We've been using a Brita pitcher for our drinking water for 30 years, during that time we lived in Georgia, a country place in Ohio with well water so full of iron it made our sinks turn orange, and here on the edge of town with city water. It works for us and always tastes great.

I've never bought a bottle of water for us, but bought one for a friend, last week. I was amazed at the variety and we found four different prices for the very same water depending on placement in the store.

The price doesn't shock me as much as the weight. I see women loading stacks of it into their cars at the store.
 
Not at all. I never tried it and never will. If I need water when I go out, I'll just fill an empty bottle with tap water. If I don't trust water, I will boil it or not drink it. Besides, water just sitting around in plastic bottles goes bad. Many people fall for bottled water hype. I only drink water out of glass or metal bottles.
 
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LoveTulips said:
Never buy bottled water. Water here in BC is clean. Don't use filtered water either.
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That's the way water in North Western Montana was, cold and clear. I live in rural Virginia now, and the water is dirty, filthy by my standards. It's that way with my neighbors too. We have wells and whole house filters that trap the sand, but won't remove all of the dirt. My sister sent me one of those filter pitchers that make about a half gallon of clean water at a time, and I use that. It's the most expensive one on the market, I think. I don't think you can buy bottled water that is cleaner than that, but it was a pain to get in the habit of making clean water. Now it's just a minor issue.
 
Naturally said:
I was buying gallon jugs of spring water for a while but got to thinking :unsure:
... anything that comes in plastic means it will contain an amount of micro-plastics in the liquid.
So do I really want to drink a bunch of micro-plastics? ... nope
Now back on city tap water that has very good yearly test results here in lower Alabama.

And for a while I did use a PUR PLUS Faucet Mount Water Filtration System on my kitchen faucet.
Was nice to filter water or run water straight through the system unfiltered for most kitchen tasks at the flip of a lever.
But I did notice a taste to the filtered water that the PUR PLUS System introduced.
So back to city tap water that has very good yearly test results here in lower Alabama.
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Yes, people don't realize just how fast and bad bottled water goes bad in plastic containers
 
Tap water tastes bad here. I used a Brita pitcher for years, which remedied the problem, but the store ran out of filters and stayed out. From that experience, I discovered that drawing up tap water into gallon jugs and letting it sit a couple of days took away the bad taste.

I have empty gallon jugs that ice tea came in. I keep 5-6 of those filled with tap water, and use from the oldest jug first to refill my refrigerator water pitcher, then refill the empty jug, and put it at the back of the row of bottles so it will get several days old before using.
 
Our tap water is good . The water quality reports sent out regularly are good and the taste is good.
For watering my house plants though I do fill a couple of gallon jugs and let them sit for day or two before using. I leave the lids off the jugs too.

i also put a 5 gallon bucket outside when it is going to rain and use that water for house plants.
 
I very rarely drink bottled water, usually only if someone offers a bottle to me. I have a well and the water quality is fantastic, I prefer it over any other water.

The water I detest over all others is what I call city water, water that has been treated and filtered and pumped to your home by some municipality. It tastes foul to me.
 
C50 said:
I very rarely drink bottled water, usually only if someone offers a bottle to me. I have a well and the water quality is fantastic, I prefer it over any other water.

The water I detest over all others is what I call city water, water that has been treated and filtered and pumped to your home by some municipality. It tastes foul to me.
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If people even offer me bottled water, I look at them strangely......lol.
 
City water on tap since we have whole house charcoal filtered water before it enters the whole house water softener. Take water along when going out, haven't noticed any taste difference when ordering water to drink when eating at restaurants.
 
Knight said:
City water on tap since we have whole house charcoal filtered water before it enters the whole house water softener. Take water along when going out, haven't noticed any taste difference when ordering water to drink when eating at restaurants.
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I've been drinking straight Great Lakes water from the tap for decades.
 
I don't care for the taste of the local tap water, although I use it for coffee and tea. I drink Hint water (Hint Water: Official Website) because I like it enough that drinking a bunch of it is easy. It doesn't have that nasty, fake-sweet taste most other flavored waters seem to have, and it's pretty inexpensive when bought in bulk.
 
Capt Lightning said:
We have really good quality tap water, but shops still sell 'spring water'. There are a several towns which are known for their spring water spas. Often said to have medicinal properties. Some years ago I was in Buxton , one such spa town. You could buy the bottled spring water, or simply go to the spring, which is in town, and fill your own bottles for free.:unsure:
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St Ann's Well, natural spring water, Buxton, Derbyshire:

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The first time I was in Buxton, at the age of 16, I drank the Buxton Spring Water from St Ann's Well. It was still warm from being 1,500ft underground. I generally only drink tap water, but on the few occasions that I buy bottled water, usually if I'm out for the day, it's Buxton Spring Water I buy. It seems that most of the bottled water sold in the UK is natural spring water.

Your post reminded me of Dasani (Coca-Cola) bottled water and the Fiasco surrounding it -- something that I followed in the news at the time. They encouraged stores in Buxton to stop stocking Buxton water by saying they would provide the stores with free chillers, but only if they stopped stocking Buxton water. This was followed by News reports of Dasani's "Bully Boy Tactics".

Dasani set up a factory in Sidcup, southeast London, and they marketed it as a high-quality, purified water, and as being better than tap water. It was only going to get worse from there on, as they were selling and marketing public British tap water with a roughly 800 to 1,000% markup. Some UK consumers, who previously drank bottled 'spring water', felt cheated.

The British Food Standards Agency and Advertising Agency got involved. As did Thames Water, who were supplying public drinking water to Dasani. Thames Water said Dasani's various statements had made it sound as though Thames Water 'drinking water' wasn't already purified enough or safe to drink. Dasani's bottled water was then tested, and found to have "chemicals in it that shouldn't be there". Chemicals that were being added for taste -- Magnesium Sulfate; Potassium Chloride; Sodium Chloride (Salt). Then it was found that due to an accident in its 'manufacturing' process, it contained illegal levels of Bromate (a suspected carcinogen), when compared to UK standards.

Dasani then recalled its product, stopped production, and left the UK. They haven't been back since.
 
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If you have ever been to Bakersfield, which is where our water comes from, you know why we exclusively drink bottled water. It's oily alkaline water. I don't even like taking showers or doing laundry in it but there is no other choice. But I surely don't have to drink it. And I thought that Eureka water was bad... At least you could boil it and was fine. Boiling Bakersfield water would just make it hot water.
 
I've bought the odd bottle or two when on the road. Aside from that, I recently got a few cases of single-serve bottles for free when a grocery store re-opened under new management. I'd meant to save them but they were just in the way so I used it up, compressed the thin-walled bottles to get ride of them.

The stuff is basically decent tap water marked up hundreds of percents and nothing more fabulous than that. Add in packaging, warehousing, and transport... there is nothing "green" about using this stuff.
 
I think drinking bottled water has its risks.

It has become generally well known that drinking too much bottled water can produce dysmetria in the person drinking it. As in the inability to judge and control speed, distance, and range of movement. Hand-to-mouth coordination for example.

Marketers of bottled water are well aware of this, as can be seen within their subliminal messaging. Some resort to lying on their backs in the misguided belief that it will help them to regain some control:

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I wouldn't know about Dysmetria, I've had Cervical Stenosis and Myelopathy, which has been messing with my "guidance system" for years, a lot longer than I've been drinking bottled water.
 

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