bottled water--yes or no?
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Anonymous
But a filter, they can filter out lead too... |
Anonymous
I only drink bottled water, even bringing it to restaurants. I went through chemotherapy and had to keep things as sanitary as possible, besides which I wanted only filtered water during that time. To this day, I drink 4-5 bottles of purified water (Wellsley Farms from BJ's) every day. One case is $3 for 40 bottles, so that's less than $3/week. I don't really include that as a separate line item in my food budget. Sometimes my kids grab a bottle, but typically they drink tap water. |
Anonymous
Depending on the kind of pipes/lead, filters are ineffective. |
Anonymous
| We drink 95% filtered water. We bring water bottles most places, but don't bring water bottles when traveling or going to amusement parks. For those trips (maybe 3-4 x /year) we'll bring bottled water, consume and dump the empty bottle. At a small handful of bottles a year, I'm not concerned at all about my contribution to plastic waste. |
Anonymous
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My family will buy bottled sparkling water on a fairly regular basis - maybe getting 2/3 liters a week. They cost less than a euro a piece (we live in Europe) so I don't think it's a huge deal.
For drinking water we use a Brita pitcher. We are HUGE water drinkers and I can't imagine buying still water for us. We'd be broke! |
Anonymous
| Only buy it when traveling. |
Anonymous
| Only drink bottled water. I don't trust local water utility and infrastructure. Important for people to look up water quality reports from local water company and not all local water supply can be relied upon. Mine is not quite flint yet but the report is bad enough that I don't have the peace of mind to drink out of the tap. |
Anonymous
| I went through a phase when I drank a lot of Pelligrino. Now I have a ZeroWater filter and a soda stream. |
Anonymous
| I get it that all those bottles is a huge amount of environmental pollution, but in terms of water quality, do you think buying spring water or mineral water would be better than drinking filtered tap? |
Anonymous
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We have a reverse osmosis water filter in our house. The water tastes gross before that. DH did some kind of test and I don't remember what chemical/substance measured but the numbers were much lower after we put the filter in. We don't live in DC but when we visit my parents in Potomac we don't drink their water from the tap because it tastes gross.
If we're out I may buy bottled water if I have to and I don't sweat it. |
Anonymous
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You realize that many types of bottled water is just tap water from some big "bottling" plant, right?
You are just paying for it and polluting with the damn bottles. Stop that. |
Anonymous
But bottled water is not more regulated than what comes out of your tap. A good portion of bottled water is just tap water. That's been put in a bottle. |
Anonymous
| No, we don't buy it, though I do buy seltzer. We have an under-sink filter. |
Anonymous
| So "spring" and "mineral" water is not really spring and mineral, but tap? |
Anonymous
| Never. We have Brita pitchers at home and Brita filter water bottles at work. |