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Posted on 05/25/2011 12:13:10 PM PDT by truthnomatterwhat
beat me to it
The only liquid I want bottled is my Jack Daniels or Budweiser beer.
I’ll drink tap water, thank you very much.
JMO...
Nestles label on the last stuff I bought said it was purified tap water.
Ice Mountain water is just Evart Michigan well water.
When I lived there it used to crack me up seeing people buying it in the grocery store.
Well, actually, sometimes they did die from the water. It wasn’t uncommon.
The only thing bottled water is good for is furnishing the bottle for me to fill and refill it with my filtered tap water.
If you pay for bottled water, you better not bitch and moan about tight finances. It’s ridiculous.
You know, I watched Stossel’s show on bottled water, and I’ve tried various ones (we travel a lot, and I try to drink water as often as I can just so I don’t drink so many soft drinks). Plus having lived in TX and NM where sometimes the local water is really gross and disgusting, in fact, sometimes it’s so bad you cannot even drink the TEA). I don’t know what kind of taste buds their taste testers have but I can tell you, I don’t like a lot of the bottled waters, but I always like Aquafina. I won’t drink Dasani, it tastes like a plastic bottle. So, believe me or not, I don’t really care. Some local water tastes fine, but I know if I buy a bottle of Aquafina I’m fine.
Do you really have people coming up to you complaining about their finances as they sip their bottled water? Wow!
LOL surely the Jack Daniels would kill anything in the water anyway!
Are we supposed to post ads on FR?
> First, I live in an area with hurricanes. If our water is turned off, I need safe drinking water on hand.
Okay, this makes sense. We have a standing case of bottled water in case we have an earthquake (it’s part of our preparedness box). We use/donate/refresh the comestibles every 2 years. But we don’t use the bottles regularly.
> Second, I like the way Aquafina tastes, and it ALWAYS tastes the same. My tap water has an odd taste sometimes. I don’t think it’s harmful, I just don’t care for it. It’s my money. Bottled water is better for me than coke.
Yes, bottled is way better than soda, however I think you might get good and consistent drinking water from your tap by getting a filter/ionizer, or even by just getting a Brita pitcher. For me, it’s just a ton easier to grab a glass of water from the tap or a pitcher from the tap instead of finding a bottle and recycling a pile of the darn things every week. Your mileage may vary.
It’s no worse than the water they use in all your beverages and in much of your food.
Very pure water is not necessarily good for you.
I would be curious to see this info for evian, volvic, fiji, etc., the more premium brands. Evian in particular has a mineral content higher than any other bottled water I have seen by far, calcium magnesium etc.
> Do you really have people coming up to you complaining about their finances as they sip their bottled water? Wow!
Actually, I do! I have a casual friend who has been out of work for months and still insists on buying cases of water instead of drinking from the tap. She’s always whining about how she’s scraping to get by. She also hasn’t cut her cable TV, either. Priorities :-P
What is funny - so much bottled water is nothing but “filtered” tap water. What is sad to me - you can by some pretty fair genuine “spring water” for less than the bottle tap water.
I really dislike drinking tap water because of the chlorine taste. Don’t care much for it in making coffee either. But that being said - I ain’t gonna voluntarily pay for bottled tap water (filtered or not). I do buy some bottled spring water. Tastes better than “tap crap”.
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Good old fashioned cholera.
“There ads” Real professional writers.
I buy several cases a year for convenience when hiking or camping and I just started that because the enviroNazis are trying to scare people who use it.
I have excellent tap water and tested for the first time a month or so ago and all 8 of our wells passed with flying colors.
I keep 2 cases under the table, and put some in the fridge and drink them and rotate that way. I never understand why FReepers get unhappy over other people’s choices in these things. Hey, I’m keeping the economy perking. I don’t think others need to do this if they don’t want to, but it’s a convenience I prefer, I like the taste, and I like to keep them in the house as I said because of hurricanes. Our new fridge (I admit) makes good tasting water, I may ultimately get used to drinking that instead, altho that won’t solve the hurricane issue (If I don’t rotate them, I suspect I will never remember how long they have sat there—I’m sure they are safe a lot longer than we think tho and you could always boil them).
BTW as an aside, if you want to taste the worst water ever, go to Alto NM. It will curl your toes and put hair on your chest. I used to hate to even brush my teeth with it when I visited my inlaws. OHHHHHHHH it was that bad.
Since moving to Florida, we keep three cases of bottled water on hand. The tap water smells like a swimming pool it has so much chlorine in it.
However, we also have filters for the kitchen sink and Fridge to remove the chlorine taste and limestone. Kidney stones are no fun!
Ergo, we use all of the cases on a rotating basis and refill them with filtered water.
Ta-Da! No recycling. And no recurring expense.
AND....
We also have a Brita filter so we can filter any water we need elsewhere, such as when we go to the beach for a week.
Our choice for the bottles...Aquafina. They have better bottle caps.
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