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[Lucumo]

The tap. It's cold and unlimited.

Yep, pretty much.

 

[Joni]

I open up four bottles of water every month, which I then spend a month refilling each day with tap water. It tastes great here.

 

[panty]

Tap all day every day

 

[grmlin]

Tap for me, Volvic for my coffee machine (Berlin water is very hard)

 

[venomenon]

Tap at home, bottled at work.

I prefer carbonated water but I'm too lazy to buy bottled water in sufficient quantities. At work we get it for free.
Carbonation devices change the taste too much IMO. When I had a SodaStream, the water usually tasted kinda metallic.

 

[SliceSabre]

I drink from the tap. I have a standing boycott against buying bottled water. I refuse to pay for it. I'll drink it if given to me freely but I refuse to buy bottled water, I won't support that.

 

[Always-honest]

Netherlands. Tap. I could drink from the toilet and it would be fine.

 

[Ishan]

Depends on the country. Tap water in India is a jaundice invitation. Us tap water all the way

 

[le-seb]

I drink tap water. Then again I live in this town.

«The World’s Best Tasting Tap Water»
Participants in the 2016 Municipal Entries: USA (16), Canada (1), Australia (1).
Okay.

 

[tirant]

Always from the tap. I try to never drink bottled unless I am in a country where I don't trust that kind of source.

Bottled water is outrageously expensive and bad for the environment, and it should be banned from most environments where a reliable source can be provided.

 

[shira]

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?

It's a huge problem buying bottled water, because huge companies like Nestle are buying up all the fresh water sources on the planet.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Tap water cooled in the fridge when possible, plastic bottles production involves toxic gasses getting released in the air.

 

[Bedameister]

tap

 

[DrM]

Always tap water

Only exception is when I go to the mountains - for that I usually buy a pack of 6 0,5 liter bottles of water

 

[Vex_]

Can't stand tap water. Tastes like pool water (chloride). Bottled water is way better.

Another reason to hate this pos state (NC). Don't have a filter tho. Maybe that will help?

 

[UrbanRats]

Tap.
I'm not made of money.

 

[reKon]

Tap water + this

 

[Engell]

water straight from the tap, its super clean where i live, several tests where made and no bottled water even came close to being as good.

Have a Brita maxtra filter for when i need water for the espresso machine (only to make the water softer)

 

[Liljagare]

Yeah, tap here too, test after test shows that our tap water here is cleaner than bottled water, it's amazing really (Sweden, around Stockholm).

It is a shock to go abroad and see signs that say non-potable next to the taps. :\

 

[teruterubozu]

I have a reverse osmosis system in my house. Super filtered pure water.

 

[oneils]

Tap water in Ottawa tastes fine to me. I don't bother with a filter.

I do like to have a couple bottles of club soda on hand, though.

 

[KHlover]

Both. Tap water in Germany is held to higher standards than bottled water, so I have no issues with drinking tap.

 

[Darrenf]

I buy flavoured bottled water, but drink regular from the tap.

 

[Myriadis]

At my home I drink from tap. At my parents' home which is close to an american air base we have to use filters. They found out that the air base is mindlessly releasíng some chemicals into the groundwater. It's been said that despite this, the tap water would be safe to drink but it tastes bad, the cancer rate is higher around here than anywhere else and I'm damn sure I will not drink it unless it was filtered first.

 

[Greddleok]

Tap. I feel like I'm being ripped off if I buy water.

 

[v1lla21]

We buy water jugs for the house for those machine things...

Same.

 

[stan423321]

Preboiled tap water most of the time. Regular one just tastes like some terrible Z-brand bottled water.

 

[Lashley]

UK

Both, I buy bottled water but if I have none left, I use the tap

 

[old manatee]

I've been drinking tap water my entire life, but it's been on my mind a lot since Flint. It's frustrating that we can't trust the government to actually watch our backs on basic stuff like clean drinking water.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Belgium, tap water all day every day.

 

[NEO0MJ]

VOSS doesn't come out of the tap so bottled obviously.

More seriously I drink out of the fridge which is supplied by a filter. Outside I drink bottled as our tap water is not drinkable here.

 

[Yudoken]

German here, bottled mineral is what I drink at home.
Normal water or even tap water is not really tasting that great.

 

[Navid]

When I was living in Norway we didn't even consider buying bottled water as the tap water was so good...

But after moving to the UK we realised that we needed to start buying bottled water and use filters for tea/coffee as the tap water just didn't taste natural.

 

[Machine]

I avoid bottled water. There are plenty of stories about the business practices of companies like Nestle which should make it so you never want to ever give them a dime. Also, the recycle rate for water bottles is less than 25% so they are choking our landfills. I know we all make little compromises every day (like buying Apple despite the labor conditions your iPhone is built under) but this is one area where it's not that hard to make the right choice.

 

[Ruuppa]

Tapwater is almost literally free in Finland, so that's me.

 

[Pantaghana]

In Croatia clean water is taken seriously, all over the country tap water is safe to drink. Never heard of people buying bottled water for daily use.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

Both, depends on how lazy I am at the moment.

Munich tap water is great, but I also like Adelholzener bottled water.
Up until a few years ago I also drank carbonated bottled water, but not anymore.

 

[Number45]

Tap even filtered where I live doesn't taste great, so I drink bottled (pretty much all I drink most of the time).

 

[Ogni-XR21]

I buy bottled water and refill these bottles several times with tap water.

 

[RoadHazard]

Right from the tap. That's the norm here in Sweden, our tap water tastes great and is probably healthier than most bottled water. I only buy bottled if I'm out and get really thirsty.

I drank tap water all the time when I visited NYC earlier this year too. Didn't taste as good as ours (strong taste of chlorine), but it was perfectly fine.

 

[NEO0MJ]

I buy bottled water and refill these bottles several times with tap water.

You shouldn't do that, unless you know for sure that the plastic composition of that bottle resists deterioration. There's a symbol for it, but I forgot it.

 

[LAM09]

Bottled

 

[Metroxed]

I live in the Basque Country (Spain) where we have tap water of very high quality, but I drink bottled water always, I'm used to it and I find it difficult to change.

 

[mhayes86]

I drank water from the tap back at my parent's house, but it has a smell and taste at my apartment that I don't like, so I use a PUR water filter pitcher which does the job.

I buy water bottles to drink while out and at work, and then refill them with the pitcher to reuse a couple times. At home, I'll pour water into a glass from the pitcher.

 

[DarknessTear]

Where I live the tap water is almost brown.

 

[negreenfield]

Filter at work and home (we have a machine at work and a filter on the fridge at home). When out and about if I can I bring water from home but often use bottled water in those scenarios.

So both, but mostly filtered tap.

 

[speedpop]

I used to drink bottled water because that's what the better half does, but for the most part I'm fine with tap water. Especially if I put it in my own containers and chuck them in the fridge. Once it's all cooled down, there's absolutely no taste difference.

Where I live the tap water is almost brown.

That shit fucking sucks. I feel sorry for you.

 

[Servbot24]

I have a water filter pitcher I fill from the tap. Tastes better than bottled IMO

 

[laoni]

Normally I drink tap, but cause I'm doing chemo and don't have an immune system, they recommended I drink bottled water to minimise chance of infection.

They taste the same tbh

 

[Demoskinos]

Bottled water. I mean for little over $4 you can get like 35 bottles of water. That should last anyone a good week or two unless you're housing like 5-6 people.