Do you purchase bottled water, and if so, why?

[Joe Fields]

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Why do you ask???

And I do, to use in the car. I refill the bottles multiple times.

[Joe Fields]

3. because I don't understand why people would pay retail for it,

when they can get it out of a tap.

[Maine-ah]

37. if you had crappy tap water you would understand.

in town, the water smells like chlorine, and tastes like crap. Luckily, I have a good well. But I do keep bottled water in the house, take it in the car ect...

[Nicole]

2. Yes, because I want to.

:rofl:

I buy bottled water to take with me when running errands. It has cut down on the amount of cokes I buy at fast food places.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. if i am out on the streets and have forgotten my water bottle

and am thirsty i buy water. what else is there to do? i dont drink soda.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Yes - our tap water is close to un-potable.

We are in SoCal, and our water has a very nasty acrid aftertaste. We use filtered tap for cooking and drinking at home, but in the event of an earthquake affecting our water supply, we have a supply of bottled water. We also use the bottled water for when we are in the car.

[Joe Fields]

7. When I lived in western Colorado, the water was orange, and had

athe smell and taste of sulphur. So I drank whiskey instead.

[Kajsa]

12. Ditto on what KW said.

I live in coastal OC, too.
The tap water here is nasty!
What is it with beach communities in SoCal
and their nasty tap water?
I remember having the same problem in
Santa Monica.

I have a PUR filter on my kitchen faucet.
All drinking water and water for food and
drinks comes from the PUR filter.
My cats drink it, also.

Oh, I do water my house plants with it, too.

[Redstone]

23. Why? Because God did not intend for that many people to live where you live. I'm serious.

If He had, He'd have put some WATER there, and you wouldn't be drinking brine that's been through farmers' fields and drained back into the Colorado River six times on its way to you.

Read a book titled "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner. You'll understand.

Redstone

[Kajsa]

40. You make an excellent point, Redstone.

When I lived in Santa Barbara,( very briefly)
our water was " well water" that was heavenly.

That's the ONLY place within 2 miles of the ocean
that had good drinking water in SoCal, that I know of.

SB is borderline Central Coast,CA.

[petronius]

45. I grew up in Orange County, and back when I was in high school

there was an extremely eye-opening article about the incredible amount of cow manure that had worked it's way into the local water supply reservoirs. It really explained a lot...

I didn't notice how bad OC tap water was until I left, but after living in the Bay Area for a while the foulness was obvious.

[MorningGlow]

6. Yes, for several reasons

Namely the two chemical plants too close to the residential section of the village. And our village does not have a sewer system--I don't trust the 160-year-old whatever-is-going-on underground. Mostly, thought, I just can't abide the taste of tap water--very sensitive tastebuds. Our last house had a well with nummy-tasting water; anything else is a travesty. We should've worked out some arrangement to buy several gallons a month from the new owners. I never realized I would miss that water so much.

I'm also really particular about my bottled water--for some reason drinking Poland Spring makes me sick to my stomach. I subsist on Dasani at home...sometimes Aquafina if I'm out.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. If you lived in the central San Joaquin California

where pesticides, herbicides have seeped into the ground water over many decades, and the water smells like rotten eggs (sulfur), you'd drink bottled water only, too. I even buy it for my dog in the big $0.88 jugs.

[u4ic]

9. I bought two large ones (18 litre)

and refill them at the grocery store.

I don't like the taste of our tap water. It often tastes like Javex. :puke:

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. From time to time.

At home my tap water is just fine. When we are traveling I sometimes buy bottled water because it is more convenient. Sometimes I remember to fill bottles for traveling but other times I just buy it for convenience.

[havocmom]

11. Yes

because the stuff outta the tap where I live is seriously not fit for consumption. It leaves salts on the glassware when you wash dishes and give one the trots if one is not native to the area. Kills plants.

[cloudbase]

13. I keep a stash of water and a generator in case a severe storm

knocks out the utilities.

[pipoman]

14. We buy a few cases per year and refill the bottles

We are on rural water and it is really good. We also have a deep well for irrigation, livestock and it is good too (in case of utility interruption).

[Suich]

17. That's what I do, too, except I refill

with filtered (Brita) water.

Hope your weather is ok, pipoman. Stay safe.

:hi:

[pipoman]

42. So far so good..

The weather has been a little precarious for the past few days. I have lived in tornado alley for 40 years..every year is an adventure. Thanks for the well wish.

[Kali]

15. only when something drowns in the storage tank

or if I need new gallon jugs for ice water.

[Joe Fields]

19. for real? humans?

[Kali]

25. nah that would be "when somebody drowns in the storage tank"

usually a pack rat but there have been rock squirrels, snakes and the occasional lizard over the years.

You usually notice in the shower. :puke: "Somebody check the house tank!"

then its a week of clorox stench - almost worse than the dead animal - that's when I buy bottled water (or fill containers at the gas station in town)

[femmocrat]

16. Yes. For convenience, mostly.

I cannot leave the classroom to walk down the hall to the water fountain, so I take bottled water to work. I also take one in the car.

Our water is drinkable here, but then public water fountains are loaded with germs, as well.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Nope

On accounta I got one o' these:

[hyphenate]

20. Tap water around here

has a horrible taste--seems to have more chlorine in it.

I do drink bottled water, but I make my iced tea with tap water. The bottled water's advantage is that it can go with me when I'm going out. And there is something special about the bottled water when it's clean and fresh and wet.

[Redstone]

21. Mrs R does when we're on the road, because she doesn't like soda. My decadent older son, though

has a case of the crap in his downstairs TV room. He goes to the gym twice a week, but can't muster the strength to walk up the stairs to the kitchen to get a drink of water.

Redstone

[Generic Brad]

22. No water fountains where I work

But they do sell it at the company store.

[Redstone]

24. No shit? You have to BUY water at work? Real employee-friendly company, right there.

Redstone

[Generic Brad]

26. Luke warm tap water is avaialable to all takers

But ice will cost us. It's cheaper to buy cold bottled water. Some like it hot, but I am not one of them.

[SeattleGirl]

27. Yes I do, because my tap water tastes awful.

I rarely drink my tap water.

[JCMach1]

28. Yes, we have a water cooler... tap water is not good in UAE

It is mostly desalinated, but still contains salt and minerals from the ocean and tastes awful...

[JCMach1]

29. One of the coolest things I saw recently though is a water dispenser that works by taking the

humidity from the air as the cooling compressor runs...

Unfortunately, they are around $1,000 right now.

[lutefisk]

30. Yes. Because my tap water sucks.

Our local tap water tastes awful and has a lot of crap floating in it, even though I use a filter. I live next to the body of water the city pumps the tap water from before the filtering process, and let's just say that it looks nice but nobody in her or his right mind would ever swim in it. I buy bottled spring water @ $5 for 35 .5 liter bottles. I use the tap water for cooking, tea, soup, etc, though. Trust me, I'm not doing this out of vanity - I'd love to have a good well...

[Broken_Hero]

31. We use to...

cause our drinking water had a very high level of Sulphur....but, we got one of these:

http://www.haguewaterne.com/

And we don't buy bottled water anymore.

[Scooter24]

32. Yes, I usually buy Fiji

it has been the best tasting and purest water I've ever had. Tap water is disgusting IMHO.

[NMDemDist2]

33. i buy 6 generic liter bottles a year

and refill them over and over

I take one to bed every night and in the summer take one in the car every time I go out

when they are used up (takes about a year usually, sometimes longer) I save them to cut down and start seedlings in for the garden then I recycle the bottles with the rest of the plastic

other than that, no

I like to use those over my sippy liter bottles by the bed because I have been known to knock them off the table and they won't spill with the lid on them

[Fleshdancer]

34. I do for the office

since we don't have a water fountain or a sink in the office, bottled water is the way to go. As for personal use, I'll usually buy a big bottle at the store during the summer and carry it with me in my purse since TX is so damn hot. I usually refill it a few times before buying a new one.

[Orsino]

35. Because the fountain water in my workplace...

...tastes awful. There's also an ice machine, however, that filters water without chilling it. For convenience, I buy a bottle of water about once a week, and keep refilling from the filter. Cool it in the fridge, and I'm good to go.

[ccinamon]

36. Yes - it's cheaper than filtering twice

thru Brita or Pur...our tap water is THAT bad that to get rid of the chlorine taste, you have to filter it twice....and the filters barely last 21 days before needing to be replaced.

[grasswire]

38. once in a while...

..if I am out without a water bottle in my bag.

I reuse them. In the summer I keep a couple in the freezer so I can pack one along if I am going to be out in the heat.

[mike_c]

39. I have GREAT tap water, but I like mineral water so I buy Calistoga water...

...by the case.

[skygazer]

41. I never bought bottled until I moved out here

My Vermont spring water was wonderful. But out here, the water is cloudy and full of sediment - to the point that we have to clean the screens in our faucets out regularly. Not only that, there's so little water here that if we all drank it, there wouldn't be any left. Especially this year - water level's very low. :(

Don't assume that everyone has the same quality tap water.

[hippiechick]

43. Yes, the water in Indiana tastes like dirty socks.

:puke: Although I'm opposed to having to pay for something as basic as WATER, I can't stand the smell - let alone taste - of Indy water, and the thought of what makes that smell/taste frightens me.

:hide:

[bigwillq]

44. Yes

I only drink flavored water and the bottled kind tastes much better than from the tap.

[huskerlaw]

46. Yes, I do

I figure, why not? The rest of my water is shipped in too...

Plus, it tastes gross and has a slightly brown tint to it. Even after it's been through the Brita filter.

[Blue_In_AK]

47. No, never...

Anchorage has wonderful water, and it tastes great, cold right out of the tap.

[flamingyouth]

48. No. We have a water filter.

[camero]

49. Fruit2O

Because the water here is nuked. I live about 5 miles from TMI.