I've given up on bottled water

Get a Brita

Airports charge over $5 for one bottle of water.

Can you imagine?

It's WA-TER. Not fucking gold.

When my Brita filters run out, I may get a reverse osmosis device. I never buy bottled water.

The new Sans device has piqued my interest

Our tap water is good. And COLD.

I have a $20 Takeya water bottle that I fill it with Brita filtered water and add a Propel packet. I carry it everywhere. I'll never go back to bottled water.

I'm starting to think that bottled water is one of the biggest scams and frauds in the history of mankind.

I can understand why people in Africa or Latin America or asia would need bottled water, but why would Westerners need it?

It's such a rip off.

Pick one.

Glad we could help.

I have shitty tasting water from public water supply, chlorinated. I let it outgas in glass quart jars set out on the counter for a few hours and then it tastes better.

It's the plastic waste that gets to me. Got a Britta filter pitcher and keep it in the fridge. Tap water tastes fine.

Yeah bottle water is bad. I guess I'll look into getting a sans but I prefer it already purified.

My dentist told me to stop drinking any filtered or bottled water years ago. Said tap water is fine and it has fluoride in it - excellent for your teeth.

"I'm starting to think that bottled water is one of the biggest scams and frauds in the history of mankind."

Just realizing this? People are so dumb. We all get clean water from our tap (mostly). We pay for it and then idiots go out and pay AGAIN for water that is marketed as better for you because? Because what?

It's super easy to look up your city's water supply online and see what it contains. I do use Britta filters because they seem to help with taste for me. But not a single one of us who grew up in the 60's-80's drank anything other than tap water and most of us would drink straight out of the garden hose if we were outside and hot. And there's even more awareness today about what our tap water contains. Bottle water became a thing in the late 80s/early 90s and was never a thing that was necessary. Hell, most places had public water fountains that we all drank from as kids...Malls, Amusement parks, etc.

People who buy bottled water are the most gullible idiots on the planet. Unless you are told to avoid tap water in your area, there is zero need to purchase bottled water. And for those who say, "It tastes better" you don't realize the taste difference after a while as your body and taste buds get used to whatever water you are drinking. It takes about 2 weeks to adjust to different tastes in water. If you move to a new city, you will notice the water might taste different from what you are used to but after a few weeks, you don't notice it anymore.

The recent epidemiological results support the notion that elevated fluoride intake during early development can result in IQ deficits that may be considerable. Recognition of neurotoxic risks is necessary when determining the safety of fluoride-contaminated drinking water and fluoride uses for preventive dentistry purposes.

It's bizarro world when my city (Portland) is one of the very few that doesn't add the neurotoxin fluoride to their water supply, and it's treated as some kind of weird, freakish fetish by so many outside of Oregon

I'm not a huge fan of Britta water filters since they still leave it tasting a bit off. I recently bought a ZeroWater filter and it is amazing. Crisp, delicious water.

Until it leaks r15. The filter only lasts a few months. It's $30 bucks every quarter. The taste is nice but the leaking. The small pitcher design. I'd rather get an easier system for $100+ a year

"elevated fluoride intake during early development"

So check the flouride in your water with a test kit. If it's high, don't give it to your kid. Not hard.

A little Perrier here, a little Pellegrino there. In my dream house, I have mineral water taps like bars have for beer.

You people are all so silly and lazy. I make my own.

Bottled water contains all sorts of micro plastics.

Why the hell were you drinking bottled water for so long?

I'm assuming you're talking about water that comes in small-ish plastic bottles.

Bottled water and tap water are not the only choices.

You can:

Have water delivered in 5-gallon jugs.

Get a Brita water filter pitcher.

Get one of those Berkey water filter systems.

Get a refrigerator that pumps out filtered water.

What a waste of plastic to drink bottled water.

I have a Brita and refill my liter bottles and store in fridge. I used to buy new waters a couple times a year, but it’s so ridiculously expensive I may never buy water again. Reuse what I have until they spring a leak.

Just make sure your water company takes measures against crypto sporidium and you'll be fine. Also worry if your city has old lead pipes.

R12 you're absolutely right.

It's weird because the US has some of the cleanest drinking water in the world, but we have been so conditioned to drink bottled water, for some strange reason.

It feels good to go back to drinking tap water.

And best of all, it's FREE.

Public water is not free.

R25 if you live in a house or apartment, you're either paying for it yourself, or your landlord is paying for it.

So if it's already being paid for, then why pay MORE for bottled water?

You'd have to believe they are more careful with their chemistry, but I doubt it.

Does anyone really believe "distilled water" is really that?

Yes, r27. We have agencies that check the claims of products.

Costco bottled water is like 4.99 for a lot of bottles.

I wouldn't use bottled water at home, but traveling or hiking I need to have water that I might not be able to get another way. However, I don't understand people who use bottled water at home, unless their water tastes like shit. There are a number of communities in Florida where the water is notorious for its noxious odor and color, right out of the tap. I'd give them a pass or encourage them to buy a filter for their public water. I live someplace with delicious water. I pour tap water into a bottle and refrigerate it so that I always have cold water on hand, but through the majority of the year it comes out of the tap cool if not cold.

I rarely drink the stuff, neither from a bottle nor from the tap.

If icy cold, water can be fine now and then. But bottled water from a store is usually barely cool and tastes like spit to me. Spit and plastic.

Unless it's exceptionally hot and I'm very thirsty and the bottled water is icy cold, I won't drink it.

I do like sparkling water with dinner, but there's usually wine as well.

Americans can be rather obsessed with their "hydration," turning something as basic as human thirst into some sort of life goal. The people in Europe carrying the giant plastic bottles and thermoses of water...Americans trained on The Big Gulp.

I have cases of Evian liter bottles on subscription to my home and to my mom’s home

OP - why don't you try something like this? It's $49.99

I have one of these in my fridge and always has lovely fresh filtered water on hand. You fill it with tap water and chill it. I just fill up a drink bottle when I leave the house. I love that damn thing. Saves heaps of money,

I found Brita filters on Amazon OP - they are even cheaper. I really recommend them and they have thousands of excellent reviews.

I drink filtered tap water but still have Evian shipped to be because it tastes better

I've lived in places with chlorinated water and non-chlorinated water, and an interesting thing about chlorine, is that it keeps your toilet bowl cleaner for longer.

Something about the chlorine that keeps your toilet clean.

OP- I’ve given up on Pepperidge Farm cookies 🍪.

A variety pack at Stop and Shop cost 💲 10!

Op, you’re so brave!

My tap water at home tastes fine. I just wish the city would add a touch of Zoloft and Buspar to the mix. People need to chill the fuck out.

If you live in a state with clean water, you don't even need a Brita filter.

The water comes out perfectly delicious.

I had my "come to Jesus" moment (s) about the stupidity of bottled drinking water about 20 years ago. At the time, I lived in a very old apartment building with kinda suspect pipes. I didn't care for the way the tap water tasted (which is to say that it had a "taste"), so I was regularly buying cases of Trader Joe's 1.5 liter bottles for drinking & cooking (which, by the way, is really Crystal Geyser under TJ's label).

Then, I learned two things:

1) It takes FIVE liters of water to produce a single, ONE-liter bottle of water (due to the process of making the plastic bottle & cap). So ridiculously wasteful.

2) UCLA tested something like 8-10 brands of bottle water, to compare the quality/purity to L.A. tap water. ALL of them had higher levels of contaminants & carcinogens (including hexavalent chromium-6) than L.A.'s tap water. (As I recall, Evian, Fiji, and Crystal Geyser were among the worst in terms of carcinogens)

I ran out & bought a Britta (or maybe it was Pur?) pitcher-filter at Bed, Bath & Beyond the following weekend.

Having said that, I can't completely avoid buying bottled water. I need distilled water for my Waterpick, iron & steam cleaner. Also: I keep a fairly substantial stash of one-gallon jugs stored in the event of a major earthquake, which I have to rotate out/replace every couple years.