Which do you drink? I don't drink all that much water, but when I do I'd say I drink 70% bottled and 30% tap. I just don't like the way tap water tastes--even in restaurants, I think the tap water on the table tastes yucky--but I've never tried a filter. Do you have a good filter? What contaminants does it filter out?
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Water: bottled, filtered or tap?
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Tap. I think bottled water is a racket.
I'll buy bottled if I need water that's portable and sealed up and sterile, like to take on a hike or offer to the moving guys, but I don't drink it at home or in restaurants.Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.
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Originally posted by JulieTap. I think bottled water is a racket.
I'll buy bottled if I need water that's portable and sealed up and sterile, like to take on a hike or offer to the moving guys, but I don't drink it at home or in restaurants.
However, I do drink bottled water occasionally for the convenience and portability (like to take to the gym). I buy a big box of them at Sam's Club, and it lasts me a long time. I reuse the bottles frequently, and I put tap water in them.
I will say though that some areas have really bad tap water that tastes awful, but so far all of the places I have lived have pretty good tap water, and I often think it tastes better than bottled water. I think softened water tastes nasty!Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.
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We actually have pretty good tap water here, but have been using a Brita since we lived in DC and have gotten used to it now. So at home we drink our Brita-filtered water, when we're out I drink tap.~Jane
-Wife of urology attending.
-SAHM to three great kiddos (2 boys, 1 girl!)
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Filtered water. Since I left Washington State as a teen all the tap water I have had has been nasty. I by bottled sometimes for convenice (while at work) then refil them with filtered from home. We use a brita and it tastes good. Our tap water here often smells like wet dog and has a yellow tinge to it. yuck! The brita gets rid of both.Wife to Hand Surgeon just out of training, mom to two lovely kittys and little boy, O, born in Sept 08.
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Bottled, filtered, or bottled sparkling. I don't do tap. I have Pur filter that I just attached to my sink faucet and it works great. I'm a little picky about which bottled water I like, too. I like Fiji, Evian, Aquafina, but definitely not Dasani. Blech. I drink a lot of San Pellegrino.
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Whatever is handy.
I drink tap at work (unless it's brown. which has happened)
We need to replace the filter on the refrigerator because the water and ice taste much worse than the tap water. We have a Brita pitcher from when we were in DC (although 90% of the time we drank tap) so we use that a lot. Our coffee maker has a filter but if Dr. Coffee is making it he uses the filtered water so that the coffee is double filtered.
I have had nasty tasting tap and my parent's well-water is just gross. (after it goes through the softeners.)
Jenn
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