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

[Anonymous]

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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

From your link

EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that there is no known safe level of lead in a child's blood. Taking action to reduce these exposures can improve outcomes. Lead is harmful to health, especially for children.

[Anonymous]

Enjoy your tap water full of chlorine, fluoride, bacterias, forever chemicals, hormones, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, nitrates and arsenics. Yum-my!

[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

it's totally fine to drink AND it's extra fine after it's been essentially boiled. A lot of fuss about nothing, but US consumers are good at spending $$$ on shit they don't need

[Anonymous]

Simply, because they prefer it. Worry about yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

From your link

EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that there is no known safe level of lead in a child's blood. Taking action to reduce these exposures can improve outcomes. Lead is harmful to health, especially for children.

Are you under the impression that bottled water offers zero lead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simply, because they prefer it. Worry about yourself.

I am, which is why I'm asking why you're making the environment we have to share worse for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enjoy your tap water full of chlorine, fluoride, bacterias, forever chemicals, hormones, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, nitrates and arsenics. Yum-my!

You are a special kind of dumb, aren't you?

[Anonymous]

I have well water and still order 3 cases of bottled water that get delivered 4x a year

I refill my own water bottles with my own water, but it’s always nice to be able to offer someone else a sterile bottle of water on the fly. When my adult kids drop by they will also usually grab a few bottles to keep in their cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have well water and still order 3 cases of bottled water that get delivered 4x a year

I refill my own water bottles with my own water, but it’s always nice to be able to offer someone else a sterile bottle of water on the fly. When my adult kids drop by they will also usually grab a few bottles to keep in their cars.

Sterile? 😂😂😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really like water, and that’s what I drink most of the time. I buy water for the taste like some people buy wine or coffee.
The water in my condo doesn’t taste good, and, about twice a year, it can taste really horrible. Brita and Pur filters make it better, but not as good as a $2 gallon of spring water. I buy the smaller bottles occasionally too, when I’d rather have lighter disposable bottles vs a heavier metal bottle to carry around. I also worked in a setting where lead was found in the drinking water, so I’d rather have access to water from a reasonably known source. Every now and then, I spring for the good stuff in glass bottles.

Ha! Have you read this article? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/dining/fine-water-mineral-sommeliers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E8.bYPw.0gY1_jpl6rrF&smid=url-share

Thanks for the article! I would love to do a water tasting! Or even a water tasting tour. I lived in NYC for over a decade, and, hands down, my favorite water is New York City tap water. If someone bottled it, I would stand in line to buy it. My current favorite is Icelandic. My previous favorite was Virginia Artesian water, which used to be inexpensive and easy to find, but I haven’t seen it in my neighborhood in several years. It’s nice to know that I am not alone in my affinity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

From your link

EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that there is no known safe level of lead in a child's blood. Taking action to reduce these exposures can improve outcomes. Lead is harmful to health, especially for children.

Are you under the impression that bottled water offers zero lead?

It would offer less lead. As a private producer, they are vulnerable to lawsuits and have an interest in avoiding them. Good luck holding the municipality responsible.

https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/whats-really-in-your-bottled-water-a5361150329/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

From your link

EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that there is no known safe level of lead in a child's blood. Taking action to reduce these exposures can improve outcomes. Lead is harmful to health, especially for children.

Are you under the impression that bottled water offers zero lead?

It would offer less lead. As a private producer, they are vulnerable to lawsuits and have an interest in avoiding them. Good luck holding the municipality responsible.

https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/whats-really-in-your-bottled-water-a5361150329/

And where on the bottle does it say what the lead content is? Or anything else?

The municipality posts the tests for the public to access.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What are you smoking? There is nothing wrong with tap water, at least in Fairfax where we live.

He is bending over backwards to prove that tap water is unsafe with zero proof.

It's almost as if the bottled water industry uses social media to spread doubt about the safety of tap water.

Why would they ever do such a thing???

[Anonymous]

Unless one is distilling their own water in a stainless steel container, and storing it in a quality glass container, they are drinking all sorts of toxins.

Bottled water is just filtered municipal tap water. You can read the location of the source on the bottle, or at least you used to be able to. Perhaps people got mad that their storebought water said "L.A. municipal water supply" and such, so they removed the source name and now say "call for content and source information" which nobody ever bothers doing.

With bottled water, you get all the toxins of government controlled tap water, plus the added microplastics and petrochemicals from the plastics, so you have to pay extra for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless one is distilling their own water in a stainless steel container, and storing it in a quality glass container, they are drinking all sorts of toxins.

Bottled water is just filtered municipal tap water. You can read the location of the source on the bottle, or at least you used to be able to. Perhaps people got mad that their storebought water said "L.A. municipal water supply" and such, so they removed the source name and now say "call for content and source information" which nobody ever bothers doing.

With bottled water, you get all the toxins of government controlled tap water, plus the added microplastics and petrochemicals from the plastics, so you have to pay extra for that.

Actually, SOME “bottled water is just filtered municipal tap water”. As you’ve just pointed out, it’s important to read the labels if you want information about the source. Beyond that, not all tap water is the same. There actually are some tap waters that I would pay for. There are also imported waters that I do pay for: like Fiji water, for example.