Do You Drink Tap Or Bottled Water?

**staceyy** · 04-28-2006, 11:50 PM

I was drinking bottled water for a few years but it started getting too expensive so I reverted back to tap water. Our tap water tastes good, but I know in many parts of the country its bad tasting. I don't feel I'm going to get ill from drinking it.

**Nada.Leona** · 04-29-2006, 08:14 AM

I bought a Brita water filter for my water. My

only drinks bottled water. I keep telling him it'd be cheaper to buy the Brita filters, but you know men.

**AmyMCGS** · 04-29-2006, 10:28 AM

I drink tap water that's filtered through the water dispenser on our fridge.

**tulipgraham** · 04-29-2006, 10:55 AM

We have a water cooler, so we buy bottled spring water.

**Sari** · 04-29-2006, 12:22 PM

We own a water cooler but haven't used it in months. I have no problem with tap water as long as it doesn't smell funny.

**AmyBoz** · 04-29-2006, 12:59 PM

Tap water in a Brita pitcher.

**zakity** · 04-30-2006, 02:56 PM

We have well water. We can drink our tap water, but we have an osmosis filter for our drinking water.

**3pups** · 05-01-2006, 02:47 PM

We drink the water that's filtered thru our fridge.

**wendy** · 05-01-2006, 02:57 PM

The tap water here tastes weird to me, so I buy water by the gallons. Usually I buy store brand drinking water at $.70. I can drink up to a gallon a day and that gets kind of expensive, but it's still cheaper than soda.

**Emerald_Mommy** · 05-01-2006, 04:06 PM

We drink our tap water. So far, so good.

**Sara Noel** · 05-01-2006, 04:27 PM

We have a water cooler. I drink and cook with our tap water, but have to say that it's so chlorinated that when I run water for baths, it smells like a swimming pool.

Gabe bought me the water cooler when we rented because we were on well water and it wasn't palatable.

**Tater** · 05-01-2006, 08:40 PM

Tap water here! No filter or anything. We have people all around us who have lived to be in their early to late nineties drinking this stuff, so I figure HECK - must be something good in there!!

**Lmullin** · 05-01-2006, 08:41 PM

I only drink tap. I would hate to lug home the gallons of water. Tastes fine and it has never made me sick. However, other places don't have great water.

**Libby** · 05-16-2006, 08:01 AM

Depends on where I am.

In the city - where theres a water filtration plant etc I will drink tap water straight from tap - sometimes through a Brita pitcher. We have the faucet one but I find it hinders the flow when trying to do wash dishes in sink. I also have the portable bottle one but you really have squish the bottle or suck hard to get it to flow through that filter.

At the bf's up in the country - the water comes straight from the river (which kids play in, ppl use their motorboats in etc as they pass us en route to the lake) I will drink the tap water (aka river water) b/c I know it passes through a ton of filters - sediment filters, uv filters then 3 drinking water purifying filters and then a plain old charcoal filter. However now the house is under construction theres less filters for it. Bf is fine there b/c he boils the water or uses it to cook/make coffee only. Plus he was born and raised with it. I drink water like its going out of style

So for now its store bought water for drinking. I still use the river water to cook/clean.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Those on city water should choose to drink tap water vs bottled b/c the city does add chemicals to clean it - hence the chlorine smell - however they do add flouride. They say its better to drink city tap water b/c the bottle stuff lacks this added extra and potentially needed stuff. I think theres even a print ad on this from ORAL B tooth care people.