Where do you get water when you're traveling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you seriously asking where to get water?? You clearly are not able to function in the adult world.

As most people got judging by their answers, I'm trying to balance taste (prefer bottled) with environment and finances (tap would win). And I'm curious which way most people go. I travel a lot when you add up both work and personal travel (adds up to about 3-4 months every year).

So make your own decision. Who cares what random internet strangers do.

[Anonymous]

In the US or other countries with clean water, we bring reusable water bottles & fill them up at hotel taps, water bottle refill stations in museums, etc. In places without safe tap (eg, many countries in Central America), we buy bottled water.

[Anonymous]

In the US, we always just drink from the tap. It has never occurred to me to buy bottled water when I travel in the US. Also, the safety of tap water is much more regulated in the US than of bottled water, which has very few regulations on it.

[Anonymous]

I buy bottled. I know tap is safe, but tap water tastes different everywhere and I can never get used to it.

[Anonymous]

Depends on how the tap water tastes and the nature of the travel but often I’ll just buy water bottles in bulk wherever I am upon arrival.

[Anonymous]

Tap. If for some reason the water quality was in question, or didn't taste good, I guess I would get gallon bottles to refill the reusable water bottles.

[Anonymous]

Tap water. Municipal sourced water are regulated and checked regularly otherwise we’ll have a mass outbreak of some kind from drinking water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sink. 90% if not 99% of tap water in the US is just fine.

This.

What the hell.

[Anonymous]

I’m willing to try the tap water anywhere in the US, so I always bring an empty reusable bottle with me. But if it tastes weird, I’m buying bottled water, and I don’t feel guilty.

[Anonymous]

Tap 95%...a couple of places we hated the taste but it is not typical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the US I drink tap water, unless I happen to be in Detroit or that town in Ohio with the toxic fire.

How often do you visit that town you can’t even name, though? Is it a regular thing? Have family there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to try the tap water anywhere in the US, so I always bring an empty reusable bottle with me. But if it tastes weird, I’m buying bottled water, and I don’t feel guilty.

If it tastes weird then fine.

It sounds like some posters just don't even try. That's wasteful.

[Anonymous]

We only drink Acqua di Cristallo.

[Anonymous]

If I'm somewhere domestic and I'm going to be there for a few days I get groceries delivered to my hotel and get a case of water.

[Anonymous]

Bottled mostly. We have brita water bottles for days at theme parks, on flights, etc.