Oh, my god, there are people with a JACKHAMMER outside of my house. I'm going to go insane.

I drink tap water everywhere. Well, ok, I didn't in Africa. I probably don't buy a bottle of water if there is a tap and and bottle handy.

I don't like metally flavored water much, and I was surprised at how soda-y my parents' water is (it'd been a while since I'd had aquifer water) but I get used to it. Unless the taste is iron. I prefer Baltimore water to NC, which was heavily chlorinated.

My aunt and uncle have that sulfur issue with their well water. Dad and my uncle did something that fixed it briefly, but it came back.

My aunt and uncle have that sulfur issue with their well water. Dad and my uncle did something that fixed it briefly, but it came back.

Yeah, theirs is well. Borita across the street fixed theirs, but I don't remember how.

It's not even the taste I mind - it's the fact that the water may not be safe. Several years ago we had a cryptosporidium scare - they were telling us to boil the water for ten minutes (if I remember correctly) before drinking it. bleah. That was the year I had a series of UTIs that stopped when I switched over to bottled water.

It's sad when you live in the capital of the country and you have to tell people not to drink the water.

I try to only pay for sparkling water (you will pry my weekly seltzer delivery from my cold dead hands), but I'm also lucky to live in a party of the country with really good tap water. The Brita filter in my fridge is more about keeping the water cold than making it tasty.

(And yeah, tap water isn't actually FREE. Water for the building is a big part of my monthly maintenance fee. If I owned my own detached home, I'd be paying the utility directly. Granted, the majority of that isn't drinking water, but still.)

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What?

I was feeling guilty about the waste aspect of small bottles of water that we were buying, so we switched to large containers and we refill smaller, reusable bottles that we keep on hand in the fridge. I'm thinking we should buy a filter for the faucet and go to tap. It does seem wasteful to me. The only issue is that we need to have water on hand in case of an earthquake.

Free water in my tap at home doesn't do me much good in the car, or on an airplane, or out for a run. It's not usually cold enough, and depending on where you are, the taste can be a crap shoot.

Brenda's right. People aren't as irrational as this constant tap vs. bottled water argument would have one think. Portable, safe, cold water for a dollar or so is a bargain.

I think buying a bottle of water while you're on the go is totally fine. It's doing it at home when you have other options that don't involve plastic every time.