Water - Bottled, Filtered or Tap?

[TupperMom7]

I grew up drinking tap water. In fact, it was well water - who knows what I actually was drinking. Sometimes, in the summer we even drank from the hose!
Now I am drinking bottled water. I can't seem to stop myself. Occasionally I will take a pill or something like that with our tap water. It doesn't taste bad, I just have myself convinced that bottled is better or something.
I've entertained the thought of getting a Brita pitcher or another brand of filtering system. I don't like the kind that attaches right to the tap - it wouldn't work with ours now anyway since we have the sprayer that comes off when we need it on the faucet.

What do you all use?

 

[Iri920]

We have a big PUR pitcher that we keep in the fridge. I don't drink tap water, but I will use it for cooking. I also keep water bottles in the house, but those are mainly there for emergency purposes.

 

[Colleen27]

I drink tap water if I'm home. Elsewhere, I tend to prefer bottled because I'm really picky about water and I find that the tap water from many city systems tastes odd to me.

 

[DanceRC28]

We have a Brita pitcher that we use at home and there is a filtration system at my work, so I never drink tap water. I feel the same way, like we have convinced ourselves it is so much better. I am glad that DH and I have broken the bottled water habit though since it's so horrible for the environment and expensive- CT. just added another tax on it.

 

[daly7o9]

I got a Brita pitcher about a year ago and I love it. We have well water that's a little 'hard' but it tates just as good as bottled water after being filtered through my pitcher IMHO. And I can't begin to guess how much money I've saved over the year, not to menton the decrease in landfill contribution.

 

[C.Ann]

Bottled water..

Well water here at the lake isn't suitable for drinking or cooking, so my Dson-in-law brings me jugs each week from their house..

I also have him buy me two 24-packs of bottled water each week when he does my grocery shopping before they come up.. Doesn't have to be any specific brand - just bottled..

 

[foltzy]

We drink bottled water, we use to have a water dispenser. We refuse to drink the water (well) where we live. It occasionally turns mud brown and has stained clothing and other stuff. We have a community well and it has a treatment system but yeah not touching brown water with a ten foot poll.

 

[pixiewings71]

Our area is zoned for agriculture so there are quite a few additives in it, it isn't horrible but it's not good either. We have a filter on the fridge that we use for water only, it doesn't make ice at all, just gives filtered water. When we go places I always have a case of water in the van and at work I drink it from the filter in the fridge.

 

[Tiggs14]

Our fridge has a filtered water and ice dispenser. Since getting it we've all converted to only drinking water out of the fridge.

 

[wdwfan16]

I drink tap water if I'm home. Elsewhere, I tend to prefer bottled because I'm really picky about water and I find that the tap water from many city systems tastes odd to me.

This is me too!

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Bottled water got to be too expensive so we bought the PUR filter system that attaches to the faucet. I think we drink more water because of that. Not that the tap water tasted bad, we just feel its cleaner!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

double post

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

We have a filter on our kitchen sink tap, and on our fridge water dispenser. Different cities' water doesn't bother me, I am probably the only Disser that will drink tap water at WDW. It seems like everyone brings bottles and bottles of water to the parks, I can adapt pretty easily to different tasting water. It's better than lugging all that water around to me.

I do keep a couple of bottles of water in the car just in case we are driving and can't stop for a drink.

? for bottled water drinkers. Do you make ice cubes out of bottled water, too? I had a friend that ordered a fancy schmancy bottled water in a bar-pretty blue bottle and asked for a glass with ice in it. You KNOW the bar doesn't make their ice out of bottled water, so doesn't that defeat the purpose?

 

[big_red_s]

We use Brita at home.

When we took our Disney vacation we bought bottles with filters in them from pure water 2 go and we use them on our weekend trips as well.

 

[3boymthr]

I voted tap water but we do have a whole house filter to remove rust from the water. We change it once a year so it doesn't do a lot of filtering.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Tap water. Fill a jug, leave the cap off for 24 hours (to dissipate the chlorine smell/taste), refrigerate, drink. I survived just fine on tap water for the forty or so years until I caved to the bottled water trend. Been doing this for about two years now, still alive... and well

 

[ceecee]

We drank tap until we moved, our city water was great. The well water we now have is not. It's rusty even with a softener and water treatment filter. We use the Brita (still looks off color) and the fridge has a filter (which we need to replace every 2 months). It also has a funny taste (we had it inspected and it checked out okay). My boss buys bottled for a cooler and we just found out it was just plain old city water from 20 miles away in a big bottle!!! DD hates water bottles because of the enviroment, so we have the new metal type that you reuse.

 

[branv]

We drink bottled water. Not because it's better for you -- and studies have shown pretty conclusively that tap water is perfectly fine -- but because our tap water tastes bad. We tried to go the Brita route, but that still tastes icky to me...like flat, boiled water (a la Evian style). We actually buy spring water, not just one of the bottled waters that's purified tap, and it tastes yummmmmy (Ozarka). We get it super cheap at Costco and, yes, we recyle the containers

Now we do use our Brita pitcher for our coffee makers, cooking/tea making. We have such hard water that the scale it causes on stuff is terrible, so using the Brita prolonges the life span of our Coffee Maker and Keurig. Ugh, you should see what the tea kettle looks like on the inside when we've used it to boil tap water. Awful. DH also makes beer, and he uses the Brita for that.

We'd probably save money in the long run if we could just get one of the really good water purifying systems, but first we'd need to get a water softener. And it would take like 8-10 years to say we'd saved money by having those systems versus buying bottled water. Probably won't even be in the house that long.

 

[mjkacmom]

I don't like tap water. What we do here isn't one of the options - we have a water cooler that we fill from our town well (it gets tested reguarly, and tastes great - I've been drinking it for about 35 years).

 

[Shleedogg]

Never tap. Ours doesn't taste good. We used to do bottled but it got really expensive and when I quit my job to stay home it was one of the luxuries we gave up. We got a PUR filter that fits onto our faucet from our wedding registry but the refills are expensive. When I quit we bought a Brita pitcher for the fridge. Refills are much cheaper but the problem was that DH would never refill it. . We bought a new fridge last Thanksgiving that has a water dispenser with a filter inside. Love it! Have to buy filters maybe once a year?? We haven't bought one yet and our water still tastes great!