Bottled Water

For years I looked at people who purchased bottled water with contempt. Wasters and enemies of the planet. I was also a diet coke junkie. That was until I gave up drinking all soft drinks about two years ago and switched to drinking water. I still enjoy coffee and tea also. My water at home is very good but I work in Trenton NJ and the water tastes foul. Making coffee or tea with it is awful. I buy both 1 liter bottles and gallon jugs and reuse the bottles and jugs over and over until they wear out by filling them up at home. If someone wants one of my bottled waters at work I share but insist they return the bottle to me.

I had no idea how bad some municipal water was. Honestly, the water in Trenton tastes terrible. My guess is that little by little the water goes foul in some places without the public noticing in a manner that causes a demand for action. ...until someone gets sick or lead is discovered. But water can taste bad and not be bad for you I suppose. I grew up on a farm in California with well water having a very high concentration of iron and sulfur. It was evil smelling and offensive. If you put it in the fridge for a day, it was a little less evil and koolaid was weird.

We have pretty good tasting water here. We do still have some plastic bottles but are more switching to refillable metal bottles. There’s a convenience factor involved for us, my daughter forgets everything she owns in school and spending hundreds of dollars on lost refillable bottles doesn’t seem the best option either.

As she’s gotten older, we’re working on it.

A recent study here showed there are more pollutants in most bottled water, than there is in tap water, including micro plastics from the bottling process! I have some bottles that I re-use by filling with tap water. We do have excellent Reservoir water here though. I'll never buy bottled water again

I live in Philly, so while the water is palatable I usually like my water filtered. Before we moved here we lived in eastern North Carolina where I enjoyed the refreshing water of the Tar River. After we used it it went back in the Tar and on to Greenville.

I am suspicious of a lot of bottled water as some is filtered municipal water with added mineral salts. And the real spring water--is it above where the bears go in the woods? Since I live in Philly empty water bottles are one of the more common types of street litter along with plastic bags and dental flossers (why?)

As a mummer, we go through a lot of bottled water because marching and playing in costume make for a lot of sweating.

Are many brands in the US tetrapacking their water by now?

Isn't pretty much all water "recycled" when it comes down to it?

Okay, that explains the taste of the water in my city.

I have an RO system at my kitchen sink for my well but I buy Costco bottled water which is $3 for 40 .5 liter bottles. I apologize to the planet but I'm going to keep buying bottled water from Costco.

The best water I've had was from a deep well painstakingly drilled through granite slab, a couple miles inland on the north shore of Lake Superior, Ontario Canada.

p.s. I bought about a half dozen stainless steel bottles and keep them in the fridge. Ditched plastic a few yrs ago.

Healthy hydration dude

Queenie insists on bottled water. However, she does purchase in by the gallon for the house.

I never use it. We have a filter in the refrigerator and I use that.

I admit that Vegas water straight from the tap has a rather unpleasant taste, but once it goes through that fridge filter is tastes perfectly fine to me.

I too have often thought about the huge quantity of plastic bottles being produced and where they might end up.

It does seems odd to me that people pay substantial money for something nature provides on her own for the vast majority of us.

Hey, me too. I was just quoting a selling point one of these compsnies uses.