Bottled Water

[Angel]

I just bought a Pur filter for the sink, which also came with a pitcher for the fridge and a non-bulky sports bottle, which is great.

Think about this - I live in Rochester, home of Kodak... which means many many kodak factories. One of which is right by the Water Authority. Not to mention the fact that that neighborhood has been saying it is a possible cancer cluster lately because of Kodak. I don't know if that is paranoia or what, but I do know that sipping my tap water tastes like a mouthful of raunchy, moist DIRT.

It is so not how others percieve me, because I don't give a damn what label is on my bottled water, or if anyone can even see that it is water in my sports bottle. I just would rather not drink anything that tastes like it's been sitting in a toilet for a month.

 

[LordMagicMan]

I drink it at work... I work in different stores all day long and on these hot days, I need something to drink going from account to account. All bottled water tastes the same for me... Also my apartment water has the maximum amout of radium, without being 'toxic' ... *cough* HA!!!!

 

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[Myrrdin]

There were reports one time about the River Thames in London. Apparently by the time the water reached the sea it had been recycled seven times. There was that much female hormone in the water from birth control pills,and sanitary products, that the fish were changing sex. It was mentioned as one of the causes of low sperm count in the male population of the South of England.

 

[cymbidia]

In San Diego, where i grew up, the water comes from the Colorado River. It starts our clean somewhere, i asuume, but after it flows through a zillion farmers fields and carries everything from fertilizers to persiticides through those fields, what one gets from one's tap not only looks ugly but smells bad and tastes pretty horrible, too.

All over California the water is bad. I went to school in San Luis Obispo, in central CA, and we had badly polluted water there; couldn't drink it from the tap.

I lived my entire adult life in San Francisco bay area and owned several homes there. All were on wells. All the water came out of the tap discolored and stinky. There's no way people drink that stuff. Hell, i don't use it for cooking, either. Sometimes, i'd run a bath for my son and we'd joke about how much the water looked like coffee.

No. We bought bottled water, those big bottles, and only cooked with and drank that. We bought the little bottles too, to carry with us as we went about our daily doings, to prevent being thirsty. I taught my kids *not* to drink tap water.

Then, Spokane for three years (two down, one to go ... tick ... tick ... tick). Here, the water from the tap is wonderful. It's better than any bottled water i've ever had. It's clean and pure and fresh and cold and it tastes **wonderful**. It's the only thing i'll really miss about Spokane when we leave. I've never in my life lived in a place where one could drink the tap water before. It's pretty cool to be able to do that.

 

[Never]

I live in Boston.
I drink bottled water from Poland Springs, ME.
The day Ambro comes to Boston and takes a nice chug of our water when he'll understand why people drink bottled water.

 

[Mustang Sally]

The tap water here in Toronto tastes fine, and I'm trusting enough that I don't doubt its safety. I probably should, since I've been reading frightening things about Canadian water standards lately.

Just last year, E coli in drinking water killed 8 (I think) and made hundreds of others sick in Walkerton, Ontario. There have been a couple of other smaller scares in the past few months.

Still, I hate the thought of spending money on water, and only buy it if I happen to be out and about and desperately thirsty. Hey, it happens sometimes.

 

[Cheyenne]

I live where we get our water from Lake Michigan. You can easily drink it, and it comes from the tap cold. Even in summer. Bottled water really is a waste of money here.

I just had this discussion with my dad last week. He went to a wedding that lasted all of about 45 minutes and a guy sitting in front of him in church brought in a water bottle to drink from every few minutes. No one can be that thirsty, can they?

 

[Never]

When I exercise I can easily go through a gallon of water in 45 minutes..
I'm guessing this gentleman simply drinks as a habit, the way some people smoke, chew gum, play with their hair, etc.

 

[MysteryJKR]

ive never boughten a bottle of water in my life. and i dont plan on doing so. Ive never been to a place that has tap water that can actually make ya sick so im doing fine. I aint spendin money on water when its easily accesable almost ANYWHERE.