Do you drink. Options

[ReggieM]

Tap water?

[Joanne]

I always have to have it boiled. I don't know, I'm just a little iffy about drinking straight tap water, especially after that whole dirty water fiasco here.

[Gigi]

Never. Not that it tastes any different. My mom has trained me to filter and boil my water before I drink it.

[dustbunny]

used to. then my mom got paranoid and bought a filter

[pandamonium]

not at home, and not when i know it. i only drink tap water when its served in restaurants.

[ReggieM]

i heard tap and bottle watter are basically same...my mom boils are water sometimes. we used to have the water filter and water supplier thing come and drop off water.I guess we got lazy.

[The-March-Hare]

Yeah, I do, I like the taste better than when it's been through a filter. Although, I have started using the filter sinc eI've been back for summer, simply because I like the water at school better.

[stephinika]

Nope. We have a water cooler thingy in my house and otherwise I drink bottled water.

[DoubleJ]

Same as Steph. I only drink bottled.

[JokeInsideJoke]

only if im cooking with it, but if im drinking it i use the stuff from the fridge or drink bottled water.

[LoveToMySilas]

When my best friend and I were younger, we used to fill our tea cups with tap water and pretend it was tea. We drank it like nothing. Until one day, my mother told us to stop because it was bad for us. Ironically enough, tap water today is probably cleaner than the water we drink.

[mackenziee]

I drink it when it goes through my Brita.

[ReggieM]

bottled water is bad for the enviroment!

[brooklyneast05]

i drink tap water

[loveylovely]

why not? it tastes fine to me, basically the same as bottled water. i rarely even drink bottled.

[*absinthe*]

Same as Steph. I only drink bottled.

Same.

[Annabean]

tap water is like last resort. if there is no soda, no milk, bottled water, or juicy juice, and i'm really about to just die 4rm lack of liquids...then i'll drink tap water. but otha then that? no. i mean i was brought up on it, but it's something about that taste that just freaks me out.

[xhidethedetails]

I only drink bottled or the water that goes through our filter.

[MiKKiBOO]

not at home, and not when i know it. i only drink tap water when its served in restaurants.

I would never drink TAP water from a resteraunt who serves it. Thats grimy. =]

[Just_Dream]

i drink tap water

That's YO'NASTAY!



I drink tap water since I use it to cook my instant noodles. I usually drink some, then I pour the rest down the drain when I'm done eating my noodles.

[The-March-Hare]

I would never drink TAP water from a resteraunt who serves it. Thats grimy. =]

What resteraunts DON'T serve tap water?

[justdecent]

thanks god 4 h20, can't live without

[superstitious]

My dentist recommends it for me, because of the fluoride.

[only-tuesdays]

Where do you guys live that you boil the water?

[Gigi]

I live in Vancouver. And our tap water tastes good, no weird taste at all. It's just a paranoid thing.

Here's my scale in terms of water (1 is poor, 10 is good)

Canadian bottled water - 10
Canadian boiled, filtered water I drink at home - 10
Canadian tap water - 9
Hong Kong tap water - 6
Hong Kong bottled water - 9
Hong Kong boiled and filtered water - 7
Cuban tap water - 1, don't drink it, or prepare to take a lot of pills
Cuban bottled water - 4
Cuban carbonated bottled water - 6. It's only 2 points better because the carbonated-ness masks the taste a bit.

Moral: if you're going to Cuba, drink their canned pop.

[only-tuesdays]

People go to Cuba? I thought it was pretty much closed to outside contact. But maybe that is just for those of us in the US?

[freeridefight]

I live in Vancouver. And our tap water tastes good, no weird taste at all. It's just a paranoid thing.

Here's my scale in terms of water (1 is poor, 10 is good)

Canadian bottled water - 10
Canadian boiled, filtered water I drink at home - 10
Canadian tap water - 9
Hong Kong tap water - 6
Hong Kong bottled water - 9
Hong Kong boiled and filtered water - 7
Cuban tap water - 1, don't drink it, or prepare to take a lot of pills
Cuban bottled water - 4
Cuban carbonated bottled water - 6. It's only 2 points better because the carbonated-ness masks the taste a bit.

Moral: if you're going to Cuba, drink their canned pop.

What about bathing then? I mean when you take a shower, your body basically absorbs some of water.

And I only drink bottled. I live in West Virginia, do the math.

[Gigi]

^ I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be lethal if I drank it, but I would get bad stomachaches...and the bacteria can only affect your digestive tract if you ingest it. You're not likely to "absorb" the bacteria through your skin.

Also, I drank a few cold drinks there, with ice, so I dunno what was up with that, but I didn't get any stomachaches. However, my friend who insisted that she would brush her teeth with the Cuban tap water got stomachaches. Stupid girl.

People go to Cuba? I thought it was pretty much closed to outside contact. But maybe that is just for those of us in the US?

Sorry, sometimes I forget.

But say you want to take a cheap vacation to somewhere awesome, and you decide to get to there via Canada...then that's the advice you should take.

[only-tuesdays]

^^Ok got it. For a second there I thought maybe Cuba had opened up to everyone.

A pretty good rule of thumb is if you're in Mexico, the Caribbean, South or Central America, or just your average third world country, drink bottled water only. And no ice.

As for me, I usually just drink whatever happens to be available. We did a project in school and found out that bottled water is usually just as bad for you if not worse than tap water.

[Gigi]

^ How so?

I just learned that bottled water was bad for the environment.

[only-tuesdays]

You know I don't remember. We did this in 7th grade and I'm now 20....so a lot has happened between then and now. lol I think it just had something to do with the chemicals, and how bottled water is usually marketed as "Spring Water" which could mean a variety of things.

[f00LisH_h3aRt63]

in hawaii the tap waters fine.
but ill only drink it cold. lol
if its warm then no.

when im in the mainland i can tell the HUGE difference in taste.
yuck.

jackie

[AimeeLynn]

I drink bottled... No prissy or nothing but I just do.

[Insurmountable]

Ew no. My cousins and other family members do, and they love it. But I think its disgusting. So I always have bought bottle water or I get a filter to filter the water.

[Melissa]

when i'm in nyc, i drink from the tap.
in houston, i drink filtered water.

[ReggieM]

anyone know the rankings of states with the best bottled water? I think PA is up there, where i used to live... and cali as well.

[1angel3]

When I have no choice

[superstitious]

anyone know the rankings of states with the best bottled water? I think PA is up there, where i used to live... and cali as well.

I didn't think that the tap water in Pittsburgh was good at all. The water here in Nashville is pretty good though.

[Joss-eh-lime]

only every now and then when i finish brushing my teeth..

[ReggieM]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332173,00.html

[Packratofthemind]

When I first moved into my house the tap water was horrible.But now it doesn't taste so bad. I drink it occasionally.

But for the most part I drink bottled water

[Ihate]

Unless there's absolutely nothing to drink in the house and I'm feeling too lazy to go to the store, nope.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

Same as Steph. I only drink bottled.

Same! I can tell the difference between bottled and tap and I always have to have bottled. I have really sensitive taste buds.

[jaeman]

We're running a home RO water filtering system we bought at Costco a few years back, I guess that counts as drinking tap water?