Bottled Water or Tap Water?

[MTN WARRIOR]

I have a shallow well that is a pure and cold as the driven snow. It is the best I ever tasted. I was deployed for a year and besides the family, the water was what I missed the most. It is purified with a filter just fo be on the safe side, but its cold and friggen great.

 

[CowPimp]

i prefer bottled cuz it tastes better to me, but when it comes right down to it isnt water just water?

-Efrin

Not exactly. Different waters have different mineral concentrations, which is what I think makes water from different springs have unique tastes. Also, as I stated previously, tap water contains trace amount of all spilled chemicals used by humans. They eventually make their way down into resevoirs and bodies of water. Oh yeah, and lead sucks too.

Hell, there have been multiple instances of official issued warnings against drinking the tap water in DC.

 

[soxmuscle]

Wow. I was about to post the thing my family just recently bought that has done wonders, I found this article.

http://watershed.net/purified.htm

Is there any truth to it?

 

[sabre81]

i dont believe that. Notice that their trying to sell a water ionizer, among other things on that website also. i tend not to believe things like that when theres sales trying to be made by the same company/organization. ill stick to my pur water filter attached to my sink.

 

[overthepond]

i live in the uk and the tap water is really good water here so i generally tend to drink that but before a work out ill have my san v12 drink and wont usually have another drink untill after my work out which will be pure orange juice or flavoured water etc

Neo

No way! I drink the tap water here simply because bottles are too expensive but the water here has so much lime in it, I couldn't believe what it does to things like electric kettles if you don't get a de-limer!

Anyway, I say go for a brita! Here's a little trick...if you buy cheap vodka you can run it through the brita a few times and it makes it better. Brita uses a charcol filtration, the same way the filter vodka.

 

[min0 lee]

I don't mean to brag but here in New york city our tap water is rated one of the best out there.
Funny thing there was once a bottling company in brooklyn that was using tap water and sellling it as pure glacier water.

COMMON BOTTLED WATER MYTHS
Bottled water costs 1000 TIMES more than tap water. There are hundreds of brands of bottled water in the U.S. today. Generally, standards for bottled water are no more stringent than those for public water systems.

Before you spend your money on bottled water, you should know that at least 25 percent of bottled waters come from municipal sources. In some regions of the country, where city tap water is of excellent quality and bottled water is only marginal, you might actually do worse with stuff from the supermarket. By reading labels carefully, you might be able to determine how the water was bottled, and whether it is superior to what is coming out of your tap. Some marketing claims for bottled water are strictly regulated; others are meaningless.

Meaningless words include:

GLACIER
NATURAL
ORGANIC
PURE

 

[min0 lee]

I try to avoid buying bottled water whenever possible, instead what I usually do is fill up a gallon of milk with water.
I have also seen where some of these companies get their water from and it's gross.....

 

[Volume]

I just went ahead and bought a distiller a minute ago. It was 113 shipped from amazon. Should cost about .24 cents a gallon to make at home.

 

[min0 lee]

Can you make moonshine from that machine?

 

[Volume]

Hahha,,it doesnt look like it, that would have been fun to try! From what i gather id have to reduce the temp of the machine to 173-200 degrees so the alcohol would boil but not the water, plug up the vent, and remove the filters. Be alot easier to do by building one from stratch...hmmm

 

[dr3w]

At school, in the Albany area, I avoid tap water like the plague and use a Brita. I find that you really don't even need to replace the filter as often as they suggest, although I wouldn't go too long as I'm not interested in poisoning myself.


At home (long island), the tap water is the best I've ever tasted--of course that has to do with me having grown up there--and I feel that it tastes better than any brand of bottled water, save the expensive stuff, like Fiji or Voss. Sometimes when I'm cooking Italian I'll spring for a bottle of Pelegrino, but mineral water is kinda weird tasting...

 

[min0 lee]

At home (long island), the tap water is the best I've ever tasted--of course that has to do with me having grown up there--and I feel that it tastes better than any brand of bottled water, save the expensive stuff, like Fiji or Voss. Sometimes when I'm cooking Italian I'll spring for a bottle of Pelegrino, but mineral water is kinda weird tasting...

 

[drickanderson]

depends on where you live. you couldn't pay me to drink the tap water here in Vegas there a tiny floaty things in it !

LOL .. yeah .. stay away from that Mead water.

The tap water out here in Overton comes from a spring, and is actually pretty good, but I drink filtered water when I'm at work in Vegas.

 

[patricio223]

dont reuse your plastic bottles because they wear down and you end up swallowing some estrogen from the plastic(seriously).

 

[Nick+]

Don't buy loads of bottled water, just the plastic needed for those damned bottles, means the oil's going to run out 100 yrs earlier.

Nick