Wednesday Question of the Day - 11/03

Sigh..... This is delayed yet again... Life is really throwing me a curve right now.

Do you drink bottled water? Do you have it delivered or do you buy it at the store? Or do you have a filter?

We have Sparkletts Water delivered every other Tuesday. We go through one 5 gal bottle per week. We also have a Brita which needs a new filter . Sometimes we will buy a case of the small bottled water if it on sale. We just normally refill the containers we have though.

Not really, unless we are out and about and we stop at a gas station or something. Normally I prefer tap water, as it tastes better...at least here it does.

I definitely drink bottled (spring) water all the time! I get it by the gallon......

I like bottled but have been able to drink tap no problem for most of my life. The place I lived before where I live now the tap water did not taste right. Now things are back to normal and we can and do happily drink tap water.

We do sometimes, like at the gym or at work.

I just refill my stainless steel water bottle with tap water.

When in car yes. On night stand yes(umm to many cats to trust a glass or have to disrupt in middle of night!) normally I prefer tap and even the bottles we use we reuse OFTEN.

I drink bottle water tends to be flavoured also

I buy the RO water from the dispenser at the grocery store, using refillable gallon jugs. I can't drink the tap water. Bleh. I have visited some places with drinkable tap water but I don't like the taste of my tap water. I'd like to have my own RO unit, but by my calculations it's cheaper this way.

We have a water cooler. About 2 years ago the village started upgrading the water system. Our water was often orange or brown. They said it was safe to drink but there is no way I could. The upgrades are finally done and the water is now clear.

Originally Posted by catsallaround

When in car yes. On night stand yes(umm to many cats to trust a glass or have to disrupt in middle of night!) normally I prefer tap and even the bottles we use we reuse OFTEN.

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we have been awoken by a glass of water being thrown on us by a certain fluffy black cat at 4 am.... not a fun awakening... and lots of cursing and then laughing!

our fridge has a water filter and water spout in it so we use that! Every now and then we will buy bottle spring water to put in the cooler for racing!

I never buy bottled water. It's a complete waste of money. It's about $2 per bottle here for a 550 ml bottle. It costs a fraction of a cent for that much by the tap. I can fill up my bathtub for all of 7 cents. There's a pretty good video of comedian Lewis Black talking and ranting about bottled water. Since his material is a little mature for this forum, I won't post the link here but if anyone wants to see it you could PM me.

Originally Posted by TigerOnTheProwl

I never buy bottled water. It's a complete waste of money. It's about $2 per bottle here for a 550 ml bottle. It costs a fraction of a cent for that much by the tap. I can fill up my bathtub for all of 7 cents.

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It's not a waste of money if you don't like the taste of your tap water. . .not drinking enough water (I sure couldn't choke down enough tap water to keep me healthy!) can really make people sick. So if you have to, you have to. Although it can be done much cheaper than what you say! I pay 39 cents a gallon. Not as inexpensive as tap water, but cheaper than a kidney infection.

I have 3 different sports bottles that I clean and refill with ice water It's much more cost effective & environmentally friendly! I'm fortunate that the city I live in has aquifer wells and produces some of the best water in the country; I have no need to buy bottled water when my tap water tastes amazing & is much better than the bottled stuff!

(In a side note, I've visited some other cities with disghusting tap water (cloudy, muddy looking, and horrible tasting!) In those instances, I can totally justify people buying filters and bottled water!)

We use a filter at home (it is on the faucet, so very easy). When I am out and about and thirsty, I usually get bottled water. I don't like soda or any other bottled drinks much, so it is either bottled water or get sick from dehydration!

We drink our well water; we installed a water system in the basement to filter and soften our water and we have it checked every year, so we know it's safe. The softened water does not go through the kitchen cold faucet because I use that for drinking and softened water has salt.

Our cats drink strictly bottled spring water; they never get well water. Years ago, Hydrox had crystals and we almost lost him. Turns out they were caused by our well water. That was before we installed the system in the basement, but we're not taking any chances with the cats we have now.

We have a 5 gallon water jug and water cooler in our kitchen. Hubby gets the jugs delivered at his shop for the water cooler there, and brings one home when we need it.

I don't drink the well water after seeing my in-law's well water had a pH of 9 (7 is neutral). We did tests on a water sample at the lab I work at, wowww was it alkaline! I know our well water is better because it's deeper and in extreme thirst moments I've drank from the tap, but I still prefer the water jug. Water bottles started getting too expensive, since Rob can down 1 without stopping, and I can drink one pretty quick too.