Drinking "Pure" Water

[Keef]

"It's better for the environment."

That's the one people say that really gets me. We already have municipal water processing plants, among other things, that affect the environment to a certain degree. Now, for bottled water, we have to have twice as many water processing plants. That's twice the environmental impact. On top of that we've got to make plastic bottles to put it in. There's more environmental impact.

So there you go, very simply put, bottled water results in three times the environmental impact as just turning on the faucet.

While you're at home it's dumb to drink it but while you're on the go having a bottle or two is pretty handy. But even then you can fill a reusable bottle with ice water and take it in the car or whatever.

 

[Northstar]

I prefer bottled water as the place I currently live at uses well water, which would be fine if it weren't for all the scrap yards that used to be in the area. I will probably pick up a pur filter once I get to my new place though as it has city water.

 

[Keef]

I prefer bottled water as the place I currently live at uses well water, which would be fine if it weren't for all the scrap yards that used to be in the area. I will probably pick up a pur filter once I get to my new place though as it has city water.

Has your well been tested? If there aren't any bad chemicals in your water then you're wasting a lot on bottled.

 

[Northstar]

Judging how my slumlord couldn't be bothered to pay the mortgage on my building I'm guessing the water has never been tested and I'm sure not going to pay for it considering I'm moving out in 2 weeks. Like I said, after I move I plan on buying one of these(the fridge in my current place is to small for it).

 

[Max Powers]

Has your well been tested? If there aren't any bad chemicals in your water then you're wasting a lot on bottled.

I have well water too, and though it's been tested many times and is safe to drink, it is very iron heavy and tastes and smells horrible. We tried Brita filters back in the day, but they really didn't make it much better, and it maintained its strong taste and smell.

So yeah, in turn, I buy/drink a ton of bottled water and don't really see any problem with it.

If I had good tasting public water though, I would never buy bottled.

 

[Mrs. Famine]

It's sensible to buy bottled water when you're abroad in places where the water can cause sickness and diahorrea, or if you're in a new place where you're not used to the water and it may make you temporarily unwell. But no, I don't see the point in buying water from the shop in bottles to put into the fridge and drink rather than the stuff from the tap? (Faucet if you live in the US )

So anyway. Drinking just "pure" water will not kill you as long as you're intaking the correct amount of minerals. Drinking too much water can kill you, as can drinking not enough

 

[Azuremen]

I grew up on well water that was quite tasty, and I've never been much a fan of city/public water due to the chlorine content that I can always taste. Water filters like Pur and such do a great job though of taking off the "processed" feel of city tap water. As for bottled water, never been a huge fan, feels like it is lacking something that the well water I grew up on had.

 

[niky]

It's sensible to buy bottled water when you're abroad in places where the water can cause sickness and diahorrea, or if you're in a new place where you're not used to the water and it may make you temporarily unwell. But no, I don't see the point in buying water from the shop in bottles to put into the fridge and drink rather than the stuff from the tap? (Faucet if you live in the US )

So anyway. Drinking just "pure" water will not kill you as long as you're intaking the correct amount of minerals. Drinking too much water can kill you, as can drinking not enough

And my place is abroad.

At home, we used to drink tap... but we had to boil it first. Deep well water, but considering the fact that we're smack dab in the middle of farmland and the water occassionally tests positive for E.Coli... it gets worrying. Add to that the fact that the water is so hard we had to replace pipes every few years until we switched to plastic... and even then...

The water utilities in the city (Manila) assure us their water is safe to drink. but given that the water goes through sixty year old pipes that are compromised with illegal taps in certain areas, and much of it is rotting (there was an outbreak of Hepatitis A near my former apartment when a broken line sucked in sewage from a nearby septic tank...)... errh... the general saying "Don't drink the water there" certainly applies to my hometown.

And even if you're not drinking it... the last time I used the water before I moved out, wrigglers were coming out of the faucet.

There's a good reason why purified water refilling stations are big business here... and why big hotels and businesses have their own water purification and softening systems.

 

[Crash]

I was lucky to have grown up in an area where the tap water itself is pretty clean and decent tasting. So at home, I don't see a need in drinking bottled water.

However, I have kept an old habit. Despite drinking tap water in the end, I always boil my water. I just like the taste of boiled water better.