Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is excellent. Can anyone provide a link to a water testing company? I want to put water from my tap and send it for analysis.
Secondly, what reusable bottle options are there? I would actually prefer a stainless steel container with a filter inside. I know one company that offers a bottle with a filter inside, but it is made of plastic (#4).

Actually, it looks like D.C. will test your water for lead for free: https://www.dcwater.com/lead-testing We paid an extra fee to our home inspector to do it when we were getting our house inspected before we bought it. (At the time, no one had lived there for three years, which the inspector said would mean the lead results would show the highest possible lead amounts, because frequently using the pipes for normal household activities flushes the lines a bit, but our results still came back well below levels the federal guidelines say should cause alarm.)

As for a water bottle, there are tons on Amazon. Here's one that's stainless steel with a filter: https://www.amazon.com/Erba-Stainless-Activated-removes-Chlorine/dp/B01NBEISS4/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1498240659&sr=8-15&keywords=water+bottle+with+filter But a few more minutes of poking around would probably turn up many more options.

there is no amount of lead that is safe for young kids. I would not risk even a trace amount with kids around. I don't care how many mountains of bottles are being created not giving my kid water out of decades old pipes.

Lead exposure is the leading cause of making kids dumb and criminals...read for yourself:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/

+1. Agreed. Because of this fear we only drink top tier water brands going through about a case or case and a half a week. It is so easy to have the cases shipped now as you can offer them on Amazon with free shipping.

I buy and use bottled water, drive a diesel truck, and water my grass more than I should do it's green.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is excellent. Can anyone provide a link to a water testing company? I want to put water from my tap and send it for analysis.
Secondly, what reusable bottle options are there? I would actually prefer a stainless steel container with a filter inside. I know one company that offers a bottle with a filter inside, but it is made of plastic (#4).

Actually, it looks like D.C. will test your water for lead for free: https://www.dcwater.com/lead-testing We paid an extra fee to our home inspector to do it when we were getting our house inspected before we bought it. (At the time, no one had lived there for three years, which the inspector said would mean the lead results would show the highest possible lead amounts, because frequently using the pipes for normal household activities flushes the lines a bit, but our results still came back well below levels the federal guidelines say should cause alarm.)

As for a water bottle, there are tons on Amazon. Here's one that's stainless steel with a filter: https://www.amazon.com/Erba-Stainless-Activated-removes-Chlorine/dp/B01NBEISS4/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1498240659&sr=8-15&keywords=water+bottle+with+filter But a few more minutes of poking around would probably turn up many more options.

there is no amount of lead that is safe for young kids. I would not risk even a trace amount with kids around. I don't care how many mountains of bottles are being created not giving my kid water out of decades old pipes.

Lead exposure is the leading cause of making kids dumb and criminals...read for yourself:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to drink only bottled water but I learned it can cause health issues since most don't contain magnesium or Fluoride. Now I try and drink tap water as much as possible but still take a bottle of water anytime I leave the house for convenience.

Ditto.

Convenience.

Would filling up a reusable bottle REALLY be that much less convenient? It'd be cheaper and save a lot of plastic.

It's not sanitary to re-use plastic water bottles and it's also not recommended.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/reuse-plastic-water-bottle_n_5671681.html

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is excellent. Can anyone provide a link to a water testing company? I want to put water from my tap and send it for analysis.
Secondly, what reusable bottle options are there? I would actually prefer a stainless steel container with a filter inside. I know one company that offers a bottle with a filter inside, but it is made of plastic (#4).

Actually, it looks like D.C. will test your water for lead for free: https://www.dcwater.com/lead-testing We paid an extra fee to our home inspector to do it when we were getting our house inspected before we bought it. (At the time, no one had lived there for three years, which the inspector said would mean the lead results would show the highest possible lead amounts, because frequently using the pipes for normal household activities flushes the lines a bit, but our results still came back well below levels the federal guidelines say should cause alarm.)

As for a water bottle, there are tons on Amazon. Here's one that's stainless steel with a filter: https://www.amazon.com/Erba-Stainless-Activated-removes-Chlorine/dp/B01NBEISS4/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1498240659&sr=8-15&keywords=water+bottle+with+filter But a few more minutes of poking around would probably turn up many more options.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not put the stuff that comes out a tap in my body. Anything less than a commercial grade filtration system is not adequate if you have legacy lead in the pipes. People with small kids should be extra extra careful as even small amounts of lead exposure can cause long-term problems. To me buying bottled is a no brainer - why take the risk with what you are putting in your body.

+1 Not thrilled with the plastic, but in terms of health it's the lesser of two evils imo.

The bottling company puts tap water in the bottle. You know that right?
You're paying for someone else to put water in a disposable water bottle for you.

That is not correct. Not every bottling company does this. If you are drinking a mass market brand like Dasani or Aquifina, absolutely you are getting municipal water. If you are paying up for something like perrier or fiji, that is natural source water passed through a filtration system.

We aren't talking about Perrier and you know it. How many tourists from Iowa do you see carrying around a bottle of Perrier? None. They have Kirkland brand or Aquafina. But you're right. Not every bottling company does it ,but most of the water people are carting around in cases behind their third row is tap. They all buy the hype and think it's triple washed and reverse osmosed when it is the same stuff I with which I flush my toilets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not put the stuff that comes out a tap in my body. Anything less than a commercial grade filtration system is not adequate if you have legacy lead in the pipes. People with small kids should be extra extra careful as even small amounts of lead exposure can cause long-term problems. To me buying bottled is a no brainer - why take the risk with what you are putting in your body.

+1 Not thrilled with the plastic, but in terms of health it's the lesser of two evils imo.

The bottling company puts tap water in the bottle. You know that right?
You're paying for someone else to put water in a disposable water bottle for you.

That is not correct. Not every bottling company does this. If you are drinking a mass market brand like Dasani or Aquifina, absolutely you are getting municipal water. If you are paying up for something like perrier or fiji, that is natural source water passed through a filtration system.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to drink only bottled water but I learned it can cause health issues since most don't contain magnesium or Fluoride. Now I try and drink tap water as much as possible but still take a bottle of water anytime I leave the house for convenience.

Ditto.

Convenience.

Would filling up a reusable bottle REALLY be that much less convenient? It'd be cheaper and save a lot of plastic.

I don't care.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to drink only bottled water but I learned it can cause health issues since most don't contain magnesium or Fluoride. Now I try and drink tap water as much as possible but still take a bottle of water anytime I leave the house for convenience.

Ditto.

Convenience.

Would filling up a reusable bottle REALLY be that much less convenient? It'd be cheaper and save a lot of plastic.

+1.

I drink Bud Light by the case, does that count?

We buy cans of Seltzer

I live in Colorado - you get the side eye around here drinking from disposeable water bottles. We only use reusable water bottles that we will fill up either from the tap (whole house filtration system) or the fridge. The Swell bottles are by far everyone's favorite.

This discussion is excellent. Can anyone provide a link to a water testing company? I want to put water from my tap and send it for analysis.
Secondly, what reusable bottle options are there? I would actually prefer a stainless steel container with a filter inside. I know one company that offers a bottle with a filter inside, but it is made of plastic (#4).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to drink only bottled water but I learned it can cause health issues since most don't contain magnesium or Fluoride. Now I try and drink tap water as much as possible but still take a bottle of water anytime I leave the house for convenience.

Ditto.

Convenience.

Would filling up a reusable bottle REALLY be that much less convenient? It'd be cheaper and save a lot of plastic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not put the stuff that comes out a tap in my body. Anything less than a commercial grade filtration system is not adequate if you have legacy lead in the pipes. People with small kids should be extra extra careful as even small amounts of lead exposure can cause long-term problems. To me buying bottled is a no brainer - why take the risk with what you are putting in your body.

+1 Not thrilled with the plastic, but in terms of health it's the lesser of two evils imo.

The bottling company puts tap water in the bottle. You know that right?
You're paying for someone else to put water in a disposable water bottle for you.

+1 and then let the water heat up during transportation, letting the chemicals and endocrine disruptors leach into the water you drink.