We have amazing water in Portland. Plus, if you're seen with store-bought water bottles (Dasani, Arrowhead, etc.) you're bound to get hairy eyeballs from someone.
When we lived in Atlanta and DC, we did. I always thought bottled water was a huge waste. But out here, the water is SO hard and it tastes terrible, so until we can afford to get a house softener put in, it's bottled water for us.
I refuse to drink bottle water unless I'm someplace that the tap water isn't safe. My SIL, for example, is on well water and no matter what they do they can't get the bacteria numbers down. So I drink bottled water there.
I honestly prefer the taste of tap water. H thinks I'm nuts.
Post by decemberwedding07 on Aug 12, 2012 10:52:07 GMT -5
We filter ours with a Brita pitcher. I hope that's enough. There's an awful lot in our water that's "over health guidelines." www.ewg.org/tap-water/whatsinyourwater/TX/Fort-Worth-Water-Department/2200012/ We were buying Ozarka bottled water, but it was just a complete and total PITA. We got tired of shlepping up to the store to buy the bottles, lugging them from the store to the car and from the car to the kitchen, and then rounding up the bottles to recycle them. My car was always full of like 10+ empty water bottles. Plus, we were worried about the BPA. The filter is a lot easier, I just hope we aren't going to die from drinking it.
Post by mominatrix on Aug 12, 2012 11:01:09 GMT -5
We have a drinking water filter installed at our kitchen sink that I use for most of the water I drink, not because the city water is bad, but because the plumbing in our house is pretty crappy.
With the filter, it's really good water, better than most bottled.
Tap water. Even when I lived in the middle east I drank tap water half the time (most of our compounds had their own water system so I guess that was why). I am not picking about my water though and I think bottled water is a bit of a farce.
I grew up drinking really safe, yummy well water and was APPALLED when I moved to CA and the water was just no good (in our area, at least.) It tasted like a swimming pool. Yuck. Now that we're moving I hope we can drink tap water because I hate the hassle and waste and expense of buying bottled. If not we will get one of those Brita pitchers.
Only because we have a reverse osmosis filter. I wouldn't drink it if we didn't because I'm not a fan of the fluoride and other chemicals. Plus our water tastes like chlorine without the filter.
Yes. We have a fancypants fridge that has the water spout, so I used that, mostly because it's colder than tap water. But I drink regular tap water all the time, too.
Post by sporklemotion on Aug 12, 2012 11:58:16 GMT -5
I'll drink it over ice at home, but use a Brita filter for room temperature. I'm not sure the filter actually changes the taste, but my husband prefers it that way. I'll buy bottled water if I'm out somewhere that sells only bottled drinks (I don't ask for tap water there and I generally don't drink soda), but that's it. Otherwise, tap is fine.
Post by EloiseWeenie on Aug 12, 2012 12:15:25 GMT -5
We have funky beach water, but we have a fridge with a water spout, so we use that. It has a filter, so it cuts some of the funk. I refuse to pay for bottled.
Yes - we have a water spout on the fridge that I'll get a glass of water from, but I use our tap water to make iced tea, fill up my water bottles when I go ride my bike, and swallow pills at bed time. I never buy bottled water from the store.
Post by basilosaurus on Aug 12, 2012 12:32:28 GMT -5
Yep. Don't even chill it. I've done this everywhere I've lived. We actually have a filter in our sink, but I don't bother bc it fills my bottle too slowly.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Aug 12, 2012 12:35:51 GMT -5
Yes, we drink our tap water. Mostly unfiltered (there's a filter in the fridge, but I also drink from the tap). When we lived in Wisconsin we were religious about filtering because the water tasted really bad.
Chicago tap water is fucking disgusting. It tastes and smells strongly of chlorine, among other things. We filter it through the Brita, and it is still hard for me to stomach. I grew up on well water, though.