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Do you buy bottled water or drink from tap?

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I've been mostly drinking tap water for a few years now, but I've had different experiences with it.

Where I used to live in Belgium, the water didn't taste very good (too much chloride) so I didn't drink much water then. I've been living in Brazil for a few years now and the water from the tap tastes quite neutral and I just fill up bottles and fridge them to always have cool water. It works out well. Every few weeks, the bottles get replaced.

When I was a student, I lived at a dorm and had a Brita filter, I honestly don't know if it was doing much... my girlfriend at the time was a big believer of it but I disliked the filter prices and plastic waste. (I guess it's still more eco friendly than bottles).

Do you guys drink tap water or buy bottled? If so, why? Any people using filters like Brita? Worth it?
 

Alphahawk

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I usually don't drink water, it seems to dry out my mouth pretty fast. But when I do, I mainly drink bottled it seems to have a "fuller taste". When I'm making lemonade though I use tap and it's fine....
 

Corran Horn

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At home, I drink through water through refrigerator/filter. At work I have a igloo that gets filled with filtered ice/water.

Bottled water if I go out or need something from store.

Only time I drink bottled water at home is if a friend wants one.
 

Breads

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Remember, tap water is cleaner because there's more regulations

I don't know if you're joking but this reigns true for me and is the reason why I prefer it.

Caveat: I have a filter in the mainline, strong earth magnets down the line, a filter in the sink, and a brita filter at the actual tap.

I buy bottled and use one of those brita pitcher things that have the filter in it.

You just reminded me. I don't use the brita pitcher but I use reusable brita water bottles with charcoal filters.
 
Tap at home, bottled at work -- if I forget to bottle my own, that is. My work is in a fairly old building and the water tastes noticeably off. I drank it pretty frequently when I was training for the current job I hold and never felt strange or off, but the taste is definitely weird.
 
I don't know if you're joking but this reigns true for me and is the reason why I prefer it.

Caveat: I have a filter in the mainline, strong earth magnets down the line, a filter in the sink, and a britta filter at the actual tap.

Dear god man, how dirty is your water supply?
 

The Hobo

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Usually, I drink from the tap but there's been a boil notice on our water supply for the past six months so I've been buying a lot of bottled water recently.
 

linkboy

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Tap

I keep one of these in my fridge

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I only drink bottled water. Not because it's better or anything. It's mostly because my house has old pipes, definitely needs new ones and our tap water has a very gross taste. At my old apartment definitely went with tap water which was significantly better tasting
 

Octavia

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Tap. We just redid the water lines in the house so I know those are good. The city water should be alright for the most part I'd think. What makes it palatable to me is putting it in a huge container for water and letting it sit in the fridge. Then we take and drink from that.

Remember, tap water is cleaner because there's more regulations

Yeah, tell that to flint.
 

DJ_Lae

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Tap.

1L of water costs a little less than 1/5 of a penny.

I'll sometimes buy a case of bottled water just to have a couple of spares in the car, but that's about it.
 

Tuck

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Unless the water in your city is unsafe, bottled water is very near to a scam.

Bottled water is horrible for the environment. You are often paying literally hundreds times more pet litre than from tap water, and tapw Ater is often regulated more heavily. Bottled water providers often do not pay their share for the water the use. It's an extremely high margin product.
 

Permanently A

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This thread kind of makes me realize how crazy it is I have a pseudo infinite supply of water that I can access on command available at all times just a few feet away from me.
 

Kamek

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NYC has some of the best tap water in the country so I drink tap. But if I do go bottled, it has to be Poland Spring. The water of Gods.
 

DietRob

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Buy bottled the water from my tap has a funky taste. I've looked into getting a whole home reverse osmosis filtration system but it isn't cheap.
 

CHC

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I buy those Brita filters for the pitcher thing and use them WAY longer than they say to. I get like at least three months out of one before it starts tasting like normal tap water again, which all things considered, isn't really that bad.

I'll buy a bottle of water if I'm out and I'm hot, but if I have a bag with me I just stick my water bottle in it and try to fill it up free somewhere.

I'd rather save water money for something that doesn't come out of a faucet.
 

Omadahl

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We switched to a Brita pitcher when my daughter was born because our city's drinking water is notoriously high in nitrates.

Before that it was just rain water and grain alcohol. You have to protect those precious bodily fluids.
 

sonto340

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Live in a really small town with a local water company that my father is on the board of and was president of for a while so I guzzle that tap water. Always thought bottled water was a scam until I had tap water at a friend's house and it tasted awful.
 

KillGore

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Tap water is definitely not cleaner, at least not in a microbiological perspective. Where I'm from at least. (I'm a microbiologist)

Edit: From the fridge, so tap. With a filter of course.
 

ThisGuy

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I'll get bottled water and fill it with tap to reuse.

My girl got me a fiji water recently. So now i look rich af, but it's just tap water. They don't know.

I have no need for bottled water, I live next to one of the largest bodies of fresh water on the planet.

I have a metal bottle I refill.
Where you at? Ohio/Michigan?
 
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