Water

bottled 7 votes

filtered 5 votes

tap 10 votes

other? 0 votes

A Boy Named Seo
Jan 12 2009 05:17 PM

I drink bottled water at home and we have filtered water at work, so I just keep refilling my bottle there.

I like the taste of the bottled stuff, but don't like buying the cases and hate all the waste they leave, even with recycling. The tap kinda scares me, even with a Brita or similar, but I'm thinking of going that way anyway.

Water you drinkin'?

metirish
Jan 12 2009 05:21 PM

I drink bottled , when my Mother was out from Ireland she thought I was mad with all the water I would buy .

themetfairy
Jan 12 2009 05:27 PM

A little of each.

We have a pitcher of tap water in the fridge, but sometimes I'll drink filtered water from the refrigerator door. And I'll drink the bottled stuff while running.

Kong76
Jan 12 2009 05:45 PM

I drink a lot of water, I try and avoid bottled.

We have a Brita thingy on the kitchen faucet (our tap water is pretty good
anyways) and with the filter it tastes fine. At work we have one of these
which I highly recommend for workplaces who want to get off the Poland
Spring Et al delivery service:

http://www.quenchonline.com/index.php3

Gwreck
Jan 12 2009 06:01 PM

In NYC, there's very little need to drink bottled given the high quality of the tap water.

Except in my office building, where I'm told the pipes make it unsafe to do so (and we have a water cooler).

Farmer Ted
Jan 12 2009 06:17 PM

All of the above.

cooby
Jan 12 2009 07:21 PM

Tap with whole house water softener and Britta pitcher.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 12 2009 07:28 PM

We got a Brita pitcher at home that we use. I drink a ton of water during the day but moved away from buying bottles, not to save the environment as much to save $$. I was buying a 1-liter bottle every day during the summer.

Now I get by on the water cooler thingy at the office though the system is a little sketchy IMO, the less I know about the better I guess.

sharpie
Jan 12 2009 07:38 PM

Delicious NYC tap water. Also, never order anything but in a restaurant.

Occasionally I'll buy a bottle if I'm thirsty 'cause I don't drink the sody-pop.

metsguyinmichigan
Jan 12 2009 08:03 PM

Just this morning I was covering a school board Finance Committee meeting where the members were lamenting again about their finances. And it struck me as odd that in front of each of them was a bottle of Dasani water. And I thought, "If you guys are so poor, why aren't you drinking tap water instead of $1 a bottle stuff?" Shoot, they could get a whole case of Costco water for $3.99 a case.

Just seemed odd.

Rockin' Doc
Jan 12 2009 10:51 PM

I'm trying to make a conscious effort to increase my water consumption. I drink bottled water or straight from the tap. I do fine when I'm at home, but I have a tendency to not take in enough fluids when I'm at the office. I often refill bottles with tap water and keep a few in the refrigerator at home which I find conveniant.

Unfortunately, my only fluid intake during work is my morning coffee and generally either a can of Diet 7up or a glass of water at lunch. I am trying to get in the habit of drinking a bottle of water from the office cooler during the afternoon, but I a generally forget or just get too busy.

Vince Coleman Firecracker
Jan 13 2009 07:24 AM

NYC tap water. Every once in a while I'll buy a bottle if I'm out somewhere, but I'll keep refilling it for weeks.

I liked the Bullshit on bottled water:

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Nymr83
Jan 13 2009 07:28 AM

tap all the way, i'll buy (and constantly re-fill) the occassional bottle just to have the bottle but i laugh at the people who constantly waste hteir money on the stuff

Edgy DC
Jan 13 2009 07:36 AM

DC water is toxic.

A Boy Named Seo
Jan 13 2009 11:27 AM

="Edgy DC":2iuf7c24]DC water is toxic.[/quote:2iuf7c24] I've been told LB water is, too, but I don't know that for certain. My cat got sick once and the vet said there's lots of parasites in our tap water and blamed it on that immediately.

So NYC really has clean tap water? Where's it come from?

sharpie
Jan 13 2009 11:37 AM

It comes from the Catskills via stone aquaducts.

Kong76
Jan 13 2009 03:59 PM

http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/cen514/ ... upply.html

I haven't read this yet, but it looks like a good leaping point for anyone in-
terested in the NYC water supply.

G-Fafif
Jan 13 2009 04:55 PM

Ask around late October, and I hope the unanimous answer will be "champagne".

Fman99
Jan 16 2009 05:49 PM

="Kong76":2yhe9j8s]http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/cen514/info/nyc/watersupply.html I haven't read this yet, but it looks like a good leaping point for anyone in- terested in the NYC water supply.[/quote:2yhe9j8s]

I grew up just a few miles from the Ashokan Reservoir.