Why do people buy so much bottled water at the grocery store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The District provides lead in the drinking water for free.

https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/cities/dc-water-lead-reduction-2025

DC tap water currently meets federal safety standards, with lead levels well below the EPA action level.

If you have detectabe lead in your water, due to your own pipes, you can replace your lead pipes.

While DC Water works toward complete lead line replacement, NSF-certified filters provide immediate protection.

lol. The government would never lie to you. Only the most competent, ethical, and detail-orientated "experts" are in charge! You tease out how low-information you are by focusing on lead, which is more or less a red herring. There are countless other bigger concerns in your tap water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The District provides lead in the drinking water for free.

https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/cities/dc-water-lead-reduction-2025

DC tap water currently meets federal safety standards, with lead levels well below the EPA action level.

If you have detectabe lead in your water, due to your own pipes, you can replace your lead pipes.


While DC Water works toward complete lead line replacement, NSF-certified filters provide immediate protection.

And not only that, how many bottling companies list their testing data on the product? How are people who are buying bottled water sure they aren't getting worse than what they're getting out of a tap?

I’m not sure that it’s safer. I am sure that it tastes better.

[Anonymous]

I've never had a bottle of water -- even the cheapest -- that smelled like bleach/chlorine or like rotten eggs or had an off/brown tint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never had a bottle of water -- even the cheapest -- that smelled like bleach/chlorine or like rotten eggs or had an off/brown tint.

100% this. Sometimes I think about the reasons why other countries don’t have safe drinking water and I imagine something going wrong with the equipment for our water supply- even for a little while. I drink bottled water at home. I always recycle. I do other things to try to be conscious but i’m not giving this one up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never had a bottle of water -- even the cheapest -- that smelled like bleach/chlorine or like rotten eggs or had an off/brown tint.

It’s the rotten egg smell for me. Our tap water has that smell like 50% of the time. so awful and worrisome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The District provides lead in the drinking water for free.

https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/cities/dc-water-lead-reduction-2025

DC tap water currently meets federal safety standards, with lead levels well below the EPA action level.

If you have detectabe lead in your water, due to your own pipes, you can replace your lead pipes.


While DC Water works toward complete lead line replacement, NSF-certified filters provide immediate protection.

There is no safe amount of lead.

[Anonymous]

It’s also strange that the tap water is apparently fine to drink coffee and tea and cook with but not to drink

[Anonymous]

You can boil them freeze the tap water. Bottled water is a big scam. You’re paying for water twice: with your utility bill and at the grocery store

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The District provides lead in the drinking water for free.

https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/cities/dc-water-lead-reduction-2025

DC tap water currently meets federal safety standards, with lead levels well below the EPA action level.

If you have detectabe lead in your water, due to your own pipes, you can replace your lead pipes.


While DC Water works toward complete lead line replacement, NSF-certified filters provide immediate protection.

And not only that, how many bottling companies list their testing data on the product? How are people who are buying bottled water sure they aren't getting worse than what they're getting out of a tap?

I’m not sure that it’s safer. I am sure that it tastes better.

Yeah tap water out of a bottle is so much better than tap water in a glass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The District provides lead in the drinking water for free.

https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/cities/dc-water-lead-reduction-2025

DC tap water currently meets federal safety standards, with lead levels well below the EPA action level.

If you have detectabe lead in your water, due to your own pipes, you can replace your lead pipes.


While DC Water works toward complete lead line replacement, NSF-certified filters provide immediate protection.

There is no safe amount of lead.

Of course there is. https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water

[Anonymous]

I recently had a tour of an industrial area in Baltimore (for work, don't ask). Located there is a bottled water company that uses Baltimore city water - maybe it's filtered a few times more, but it's still the same water you get out of the tap.

[Anonymous]

Hydration and convenience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently had a tour of an industrial area in Baltimore (for work, don't ask). Located there is a bottled water company that uses Baltimore city water - maybe it's filtered a few times more, but it's still the same water you get out of the tap.

Filtration matters.

[Anonymous]

Does Costco have self check out? At my local grocery store I'm sure that people buy water because it's heavy and cheap, they can drop in more expensive small items without tipping off the scale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s also strange that the tap water is apparently fine to drink coffee and tea and cook with but not to drink

Every Starbucks location has a very pricey water filtration system -- for a very good reason. Any half-decent coffee shop should, too. And no serious home coffee connoisseur uses unfiltered tap water.

In general, nobody in their right mind is drinking unfiltered muni tap water.