Where do you get water when you're traveling?

[Anonymous]

Depends. If there is water fountain in the hotel, then use water fountain. Tap if it looks ok. Buy gallon size bottled water to fill kids water bottles.

[Anonymous]

Airbnb host here, in a place with perfectly fine tap water.

Everyone buys bottled water. 12 oz bottles. It's absolutely disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overseas I buy water. In the US, it depends, but I often use the hotel's water.

Did you all know that bathroom faucets are allowed to have more lead in them than kitchen faucets? They assume (incorrectly) that most people don't drink out of their bathroom faucets.

Yeah, I also thought there are different water standards for a bathroom sink (where you'd fill up while traveling) vs a kitchen faucet

I try to find water fountains with bottle fillers but buy gallon jugs otherwise.

[Anonymous]

So impressed that when we were in Arizona ... I think we were visiting Montezuma's Castle, a National Park we were NOT able to buy water in a plastic bottle. We could fill a bottle w/water at their water station and they would sell us a nonplastic bottle.

It felt like very bad form to consider buying bottled water, anywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Airbnb host here, in a place with perfectly fine tap water.

Everyone buys bottled water. 12 oz bottles. It's absolutely disgusting.

Agree, all that waste with plastic bottles, and no proven health benefits of drinking lots of water. Ask any doctor..

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aznnt5JB1Gg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottled water in the US (tap tastes like chlorine and makes me gag) and most of the rest of the world. Tap when in some parts of Europe.

Eating disorder?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottled water in the US (tap tastes like chlorine and makes me gag) and most of the rest of the world. Tap when in some parts of Europe.

Eating disorder?

No. I grew up with the cleanest tap water in the world and can’t stand chlorine taste in my water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So impressed that when we were in Arizona ... I think we were visiting Montezuma's Castle, a National Park we were NOT able to buy water in a plastic bottle. We could fill a bottle w/water at their water station and they would sell us a nonplastic bottle.

It felt like very bad form to consider buying bottled water, anywhere

You can't buy bottled water at the Grand Canyon. Otherwise the Grand Canyon would be full of empty plastic bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So impressed that when we were in Arizona ... I think we were visiting Montezuma's Castle, a National Park we were NOT able to buy water in a plastic bottle. We could fill a bottle w/water at their water station and they would sell us a nonplastic bottle.

It felt like very bad form to consider buying bottled water, anywhere

You can't buy bottled water at the Grand Canyon. Otherwise the Grand Canyon would be full of empty plastic bottles.

But there were water bottle filling stations. Most places in the US still don't have these. Even airports!

[Anonymous]

I do both. Sometimes I don't want to carry my big reusable water bottle with me, so I'll buy water when I'm out. Or I'll refill a previously purchased bottled water so that if I get tired of carrying it, I just throw it away. Once back at the hotel, I use my own water bottle with tap water.

I drink a LOT of water though, so I almost always have it with me.

[Anonymous]

In the US? The sink. What a weird question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So impressed that when we were in Arizona ... I think we were visiting Montezuma's Castle, a National Park we were NOT able to buy water in a plastic bottle. We could fill a bottle w/water at their water station and they would sell us a nonplastic bottle.

It felt like very bad form to consider buying bottled water, anywhere

What was the non-plastic? Just curious. I don't know why water isn't sold more in cans or cardboard.

[Anonymous]

Tap water just like I do at home. I did travel to Wyoming and Montana this summer and the water smelled like sulfur. I couldn't bring myself to drink that so we drank bottled water. But I'm sure it would have been fine to drink. It just smelled awful.

[Anonymous]

A friend brought a water bottle with filter, so I'm going to give one to everyone for Christmas this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Overseas I buy water. In the US, it depends, but I often use the hotel's water.

Did you all know that bathroom faucets are allowed to have more lead in them than kitchen faucets? They assume (incorrectly) that most people don't drink out of their bathroom faucets.

Yeah, I also thought there are different water standards for a bathroom sink (where you'd fill up while traveling) vs a kitchen faucet

I try to find water fountains with bottle fillers but buy gallon jugs otherwise.

How is it possible for water from one faucet to have a different lead content than another? Isn’t the water entering the building from the same pipes? It’s not like there’s different inputs from the main water line in the street for “kitchen faucets” versus “bathroom faucets.”