Am I the only one who still chooses tap water over bottled water?
Not that I won't drink a bottled water, it's just I don't like paying a soda price for a bottled water, tap water to me taste just as good.

And hold on to your hats health nuts --- I don't have a house filter either... nope, comes straight from my towns 70 year old water pipes. But it gets its water from the cool clean Gatewood resevior, all spring fed.

NO your not the only one, I also choose tap water over bottled.

I am in the uk, the price of bottled water is way over the limit, I just think tap water is as good and the bottled is a big con.

However I do use a brita filter when I'm at home.

The most popular seller is EVIAN.. when spelt backwards reads... NAIVE which I think says it all.

All those plastic bottles mess up the environment too.

Consumer Reports or some such had done a study and found that bottled water is a rip-off. Most of it is tap water or at least no better than.

Yay tap water!

Well, I always drank tap water just as a money saving measure, not to mention it keeps my trash cans emptier. I normally carry a container of water with me at work as opposed to soda or tea. If I run out of water before I run out of day, most restaurants will refill the container for free. Between that and my pb&j sandwhices, my lunch fund only runs around $15 per month.

Call your water company and ask for a list of what is in the water.
I never trusted tap water then my son got the list from our water company. If I want water I buy the 2.5 gallon bottle. Mostly I drink fruit juice now since I kicked my Pepsi addiction.

Much of the bottled water is tap water ran through a filter and does have to meet certain specifications.

I have one of those brita water pictures. I got mine from Target.

Brita Water Filters / Dispensers / Faucet Filters: You Can Be Drinking Pure Water (http://www.brita.com/us/?WT.srch=1)

I love it because I can just use tap water, I don't have a bunch of bottles in the garbage and because it's super easy to change the filter when it's time.

In many places, the tap water is better than bottled. It contains nutrients that bottled water doesn't.

As others said, it's also better for the environment.

If it contains fluoride avoid it!

In my area, especially in the springtime when field planting is done, the tap water is icky.

I reuse plastic bottles over and over... I have a good house filter for the drinking taps... and then recycle them after a few weeks use... or I use plastic water bottles that can be run through the dishwasher. Or use metal containers made for drinking water.

Depends what tap or what kind of water it is that determins weather or not I like the tap water, also in many of the places I've visited abroad they tell you it's a bad idea to drink the tap water so you don't really have a choice there, but bottled water is great for taking with you to the gym or on a day out anywhere so what I'm saying is I like both :D

I prefer tap water because it has fluoride in it... and I actually prefer the taste of tap water over bottled.
I will buy bottled if I am out but I certainly don't buy it for home.

When we bought our house it came with a water filter with a separate tap in our kitchen... it barely gets used.

Fluoride is really really bad for you. It weakens bones in the long run. Fluoride one of the basic ingredients in Prozac (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin Nerve Gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUORIDE)

About 'Fluoride' -- Truth Every Mother Should Know (http://www.greaterthings.com/Lexicon/F/Fluoride.htm)

The Truth About Fluoride! -It is POISON! (http://www.lovethetruth.com/truth_about_fluoride.htm)

I thought fluride was good because it helped your teeth :eek:
Hmmm, maybe that filtered stuff isn't so bad!

Fluoride in large doses is harmful. That's why you must spit out your toothpaste (read the box). It's also recommended that small children use a non-fluoride toothpaste because they don't know how to spit.

That being said, the amount in tap water is so minimal that you're not going to be poisoned from drinking it. The benefits outweigh the risks.

I have a filter on my fridge so I drink the filtered tap water. I do buy cases [generic or whatever brand is on sale] of bottled water for convenience (to take to work, car, etc.) but at home I drink the water out of my faucet. I have nothing against tap water, it's just that sometimes in certain areas or if a place has old plumbing, it tastes like dirt.

But andrew you make a good point: I'm not paying for bottled water out of a soda machine either!

Alcohol is poison too!!

I drink tap water, but it is better after it sits in the fridge for a while. I have no need for bottled water, vitamin water or any other of those little scams.

Alcohol is poison too!!!!!!!!!

I drink tap water, but it is better after it sits in the fridge for a while. I have no need for bottled water, vitamin water or any other of those little scams.

Hehe, and Lawrd knows nobody has stopped drinking 'cohol :p

Funny, my mom likes to let water sit in the fridge too. I like mine fresh; after it sits a while, it tastes... "stale". And here I was all this time thinking she was odd... go figure.

I use a water filter and if I am going out for a run or something I just use a metal water bottle.

NK people think that vitamin water works miracles. A lady I work with swears that she fells completely different after drinking one. I think she just convinces herself it does something. I drink one once in a while they taste pretty good but I don't think I am actually getting any vitamins from it.

I feel better after I drink really good mineralized water but I really never buy it because I can't afford it. Plus I hate drinking water at all.
I do believe the bottled water that the majority of people drink is a scam.

The power of the placebo effect. :)

... i just use a metal water bottle.

NK people think that vitamin water works miracles. A lady I work with swears that she fells completely different after drinking one. I think she just convinces herself it does something. I drink one once in a while they taste pretty good but I don't think I am actually getting any vitamins from it.

I've had the vitaminey-enriched waters and sure, they taste good but like you, I don't think I necessarily felt different or better for having drank it.

I have a couple metal water bottles, and they made my water taste funny so I don't use them anymore. :confused:

Niko my wife says the same thing about the metal water bottle.

I think dark glass bottles are the best. They now say that the plastic leeches into the drinks. Aluminum is bad too so if you use metal bottles they should be stainless steel

They now say that the plastic leeches into the drinks.Debunked urban legend.

Debunked urban legend.

It is true for microwaved plastic and also true for soda (especially coca cola) but not water.

Debunked urban legend.

Then why was it a brand new study on the news here just two months ago?

Link me up.

Alcohol is poison too!!!!!!!!!.

That justifies the arsenic and 100's of other poisons put in cigarettes too.

Hello a:

I do think we're kind of nuts... We used to make jokes about it... But, the other day I bought water, rocks (kitty litter), air (compressed for the computer), and dirt (for the garden).

Believe me, when they can get you to buy water, rocks, air and dirt, it's all over.

excon

I will look for the actual news story
But here is what webmd says
It is a few stories down

Integrative Medicine and Wellness: March 2007 (http://blogs.webmd.com/integrative-medicine-wellness/2007_03_01_integrative-medicine-wellness-archive.html)

That justifies the arsenic and 100's of other poisons put in cigarettes too.No way, the stuff they put in cigarettes is nasty but we don't really know the extent of it because they don't disclose it. My point was that a lot of substance are poison when taken in amounts that no reasonable person would take: caffeine, alcohol, fluoride, cinnamon, etc.

Good point EX!

I will look for the actual news story
but here is what webmd says
it is a few stories down

Integrative Medicine and Wellness: March 2007 (http://blogs.webmd.com/integrative-medicine-wellness/2007_03_01_integrative-medicine-wellness-archive.html)This story? Integrative Medicine and Wellness: Everyday Toxins (http://blogs.webmd.com/integrative-medicine-wellness/2007/03/everyday-toxins.html)
It doesn't really say much about to leaching toxins from plastic bottles does it.

I don't have time to look for any news articles right now but that article does say the single plastic bottles aren't a good choice.

I hear plastic does leech if the bottle is left in the car, especially on a hot day when small amounts of plastic can leech into the water. :rolleyes:

Here is some interesting reading:

snopes.com: Microwaving Plastic Releases Cancer-Causing Agents (http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cookplastic.asp)

snopes.com: Reuse of Plastic Bottles (http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/plasticbottles.asp)

Hello a:

I do think we're kinda nuts... We used to make jokes about it... But, the other day I bought water, rocks (kitty litter), air (compressed for the computer), and dirt (for the garden).

Believe me, when they can get you to buy water, rocks, air and dirt, it's all over.

excon

Haha, Love it Exy, and very good point!

Yeah I knew about microwaves and reusing plastic. I have been telling people these things for years.

And I do not believe everything that Snopes says
I have read too many inaccuracies. They are biased just as any other site.

They offer their sources, which is more than most "news" stories and email chain letters you get.

Well, getting back to the poison, almost everything we consume, in it's extreme can kill, or at least damage us. Too much floride is a bad thing, too much bacon is too. An asprin is poison, take two and cure a headache, take a whole bottle and wind up in the hospital. Even sunlight causes cancer if you get too much of it, yet no sunlight at all can be harmful too.

Common sense should prevail here, while the health effects of tap water may vary tap to tap, I feel that the water that comes out of my tap will not shave any years off my life.

Now if you have lead pipes, or live in a location with bad water, than that would be a different story. Such as, if your town water supply was just contaminated by a oil truck overturning upstream from your resevior, than that's call to drink bottled water.

Well, getting back to the poison, almost everything we consume, in it's extreme can kill, or at least damage us. To much floride is a bad thing, to much bacon is too. An asprin is poison, take two and cure a headache, take a whole bottle and wind up in the hospital. Even sunlight causes cancer if you get to much of it, yet no sunlight at all can be harmful too.

Common sence should prevail here, while the health effects of tap water may vary tap to tap, I feel that the water that comes out of my tap will not shave any years off my life.

Now if you have lead pipes, or live in a location with bad water, than that would be a different story. Such as, if your town water supply was just contaminated by a oil truck overturning upstream from your resevior, than that's call to drink bottled water.

Too much water will kill you

Yea agreed everything in too much quantity will kill you, everything you do nowadays seems to do you harm in one way or another

That is why I have gone to organic as much as I possibly can.
I look at people who go the pro active health route and they are mostly healthy into their later years while the people that ate and drank whatever have serious health problems and in nursing homes many with dementia. Their choices did effect their health.

I use the same reasoning as you, andrewc, when I see a vending machine and there's soda, juice and water and they're all the same price, no way would I pay that for the plain water! The water should be far cheaper, it makes no sense.

I don't filter water either. My fridge has a filter built in but it has been due to be replaced forever now, I'm not replacing it. I'll drink water fom a stream, I don't care! There is a spot along the road here where a spring runs, ages ago someone put a pipe into the spring so it's easier to collect the water in jugs. People come from all over to get this water. I never filtered it. It tastes so good. When the jug settles, you can see the dirt that has settled to the bottom... I don't care! Well, I dump out the water once I get towards the bottom, I don't drink the dirt... Never got sick. I don't worry about things like that! Never have, never will.

Yeah people complain a gallon of gas is $2.60 but they will spend over a dollar on a 20/24 oz bottle of water without a problem.

I've been using my filter a lot more after reading this thread :)

I've even been giving my dogs the filtered stuff... even though they seem to enjoy drinking from puddles outside after it has rained more :rolleyes:

The price of water is ridiculous, when I used to work in a café people would come in and buy water in the fancy containers paying up to $3 essentially just for a pretty bottle.

I use the same reasoning as you, andrewc, when I see a vending machine and there's soda, juice and water and they're all the same price, no way would I pay that for the plain water!! The water should be far cheaper, it makes no sense.

I don't filter water either. My fridge has a filter built in but it has been due to be replaced forever now, I'm not replacing it. I'll drink water fom a stream, I don't care!! There is a spot along the road here where a spring runs, ages ago someone put a pipe into the spring so it's easier to collect the water in jugs. People come from all over to get this water. I never filtered it. It tastes so good. When the jug settles, you can see the dirt that has settled to the bottom.....I don't care!! Well, I dump out the water once I get towards the bottom, I don't drink the dirt...... Never got sick. I don't worry about things like that!! Never have, never will.


Yea bottled water would be easier to swallow if it were priced accordingly.
I also have been known to sip water from a spring once in a while. When you are thristy, you are thirsty.

When mowing the grass, and I'm to tired to walk up to the house, I drink from the hose.

Yea I've been sick, never after drinking unfiltered water though.

I'd be more worried about some of the crap they put in our processed food.