We drink tap at home. But traveling, we buy bottled if staying in hotels. I love the idea of refillable stations but I think it’s gross to use the same bottle for days without washing it well. Also I am grossed out by water filling stations after watching how people use them. They are rarely cleaned properly and there is lots of contact with filthy water bottles and hands.

Same as home- tap or water fountain unless tap water is known to be problematic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Domestic is tap.

International bottled.

Same, except in Rome, fountain water all the way.

OMG, Rome has municipal carbonated water at public refill stations. Why can't we have things like that?

Paris has them as well.

https://www.eutouring.com/map_drinking_water_fountains_paris.html

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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.

what's wrong with Detroit's water? It's fresh out the Great Lakes!!

Detroit actually has good water. The Detroit river flows very fast. You’re thinking of Flint (or Ohio)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Domestic is tap.

International bottled.

Same, except in Rome, fountain water all the way.

OMG, Rome has municipal carbonated water at public refill stations. Why can't we have things like that?

Because carbonated water isn’t that popular in the US?

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Anonymous wrote:Domestic is tap.

International bottled.

Same, except in Rome, fountain water all the way.

OMG, Rome has municipal carbonated water at public refill stations. Why can't we have things like that?

I buy water bottles. Recently have started traveling with my own water bottle that I refill. I bring a small bottle of soap with me.

Why wouldn’t you just drink two water when traveling?

In the US I bring my own Hydro Flax bottle and re-fill from tap/faucet. If I'm gone for an extended trip I also bring a bottle brush to clean it out. I prefer my water stay cold and plastic water bottles don't hold the cold as long as I like.

If you are used to drinking filtered water, then bottle filler water/water fountain water tastes different.

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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!

Thanks for the heads up. We will be sure to stock up in PHX.

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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!

Yeah, but all US airports have water fountains. Not convenient, but water can be had if you look for them.