the only bottled water i buy is the distilled stuff for use in refilling car batteries. same jug been the garage for a few years now.

tap water here is awsome...only time i buy bottled water is if traveling, and the water in the hotel sucks...more of a taste issue than a safety worry. but i usually leave the house on a road trip with several bottles of the tap stuff in the cooler.

I use a Brita tap filter and buy bottled water.

I don't mind paying around $5, about 20¢ a bottle, a case for the convenience factor.

No sodas in our house.

If I'm a sucker, so be it. Wouldn't be the first time. :)

FWIW.

Best,

Kurt

Allot of cities out there recycle and filter sewerage back into the municipal supply and drinking water.:eek:

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

I have had the same 16 oz water bottle in my office fridge, use filtered water to refill it and the water cooler

Brita filter on the faucet does me just fine. But I also will buy water over soda when presented with that scenario. Soda makes me feel kinda icky.

Actually, I do live in Palm Beach Gardens, but west of the I-95, and our water is very good. It does not come from Lake O, but rather from the aquifer, and the Seacoast Water District does a superb job of filtration, and treatment.

This is exactly my point, you pay your money to the water authority for the best water in the world, so why would you then also buy dubious water? Now, if someone had finicky taste, and hated the taste of the water, then I can see doing something aout it, like Brita filters.

But for orange juice, for cooking, for almost everything except sipping water from a bottle so that your neighbors and strangers see you doing it, I really question the yuppie thing of the status of being seen.

Once you get to be our age, you'll say "nonsense" to status.

bottled water is for the birds. I like mine canned :)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17...nned-water.jpg
JK I cant believe people buy the stuff

I never considered buying bottled water a staus thing and I find if kind of funny that a bunch of guys that drive Porsche's are calling bottled water drinkers "yuppies".

I guess tap water would get the job done, and in North Carolina we drink our well water without reservation.

You guys damn bottled water companies and I agree I would never trust Coke and Pepsi for bottled water, I try to seek out other brands like Zephyr Hills Crystal Springs etc... I have had water vendors come to my office that ate "locally owned and operated" and I decline.

By the same token I would never trust the efficiency of a government agency, you think because it is government run its better? Think DMV, think Public Schools, local government and I think you get the picture..... city water is just another branch of government. I know a guy that works in a water plant and I shudder to think he is responsible for the quality of your drinking water.

Consider these links.

New York has the best drinking water?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLUclM_ovXY1MT12yzWX4SA4zeRQD8VA19M80

Not Just New York:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336286,00.html

Interesting perspective on the subject.
http://www.sprol.com/?p=372

If my 20 cent bottle of Arrowhead is a status symbol then I must be a real loser!

This is a weird thread. :D

Best,

Kurt

I know a lot of people who only drink Fiji water....that's the people who use it as a status symbol

LOL! Is that stuff actually from Fiji or something?

I usually see it in the hands of the milfs going into the "Belmont Athletic Club" with their perfectly coiffed hair, matching jogging suits and well-manicured nails to "work out" (they usually emerge about 15 minutes later after a grueling six-minute session on the stairmaster, five minutes of flirting with the personal trainer and four minutes of chit-chatting with the other hausfraus). :)

Some of the comments here are very misinformed.

Yes, most of the bottled water comes from tap water, but what some seem to not know is it goes through a 6-10 step filtration process before it is put in those evil plastic bottles. Reverse osmosis, carbon filtration, particulate filtration, charcoal filtration, and in most cases UV to kill the bacteria. And some go as far as mineral injection to put the good stuff back in there so you are not drinking something that does you no good.

"Natural Spring Water" also goes through some of this plus chemical injection but has to be from a spring, which is pretty dang good stuff.

Hope this helps a bit. I won't drink the tap water around here.

Done that for years and the only bottled water I buy is carbonated. I buy ".69c a two liter bottle of soda water" during the summer. Its cheaper than gasoline and I like the carbonation.

I waste money on lots of stuff and do other dumb things, but have managed not to get in the habit of paying for something that I can get essentially free from the tap. Not to mention saddling myself with yet another pile of recycling to haul to the curb.

Tap water tastes fine to me and I have no concerns about its safety. After I eliminate drinking, red meat, two-wheeling, and various other threats, and assuming I am not 99 by then, perhaps I will worry about tap water. My wife runs tap water through a Brita filter, I don't bother.

When outside I will buy bottled water instead of soda. In restaurants, tap water or occasionally sparkling.

I forgot Starbucks coffee drinking.

How about the 'flavored' water? A gallon of Kool Aid mixed with 400 gallons of H2O and marketed as 'flavored' water. Geez are there a bunch of saps out there :rolleyes:

Hey now! Harleys have been around way longer than yuppies!!:D

It's not even the "status" thing that bugs me. (that much). I guess its that people are paying so much money for something that already available for virtualy nothing. ( yes, I know that is their perogative) Also the fact that the majority of litter and garbage I see laying all over the roads and beaches happens to be those stupid water bottles.

It's not the Harley, (owned three of them), it's the poser riders. "Ride to eat, eat to ride". And yes when I rode I kept a bottle of water bungied to the risers.
In fact, one trip from NH to Tenn. we had a water fight at 70 mph, :eek: , not the smartest thing but was fun. That's what happens when the ride gets boring.

I have no idea where it is from, but the people who I see drinking it are the daughters of those milfs you were talking about.

Not that there is anything wrong with MILF.

Bottled water however, in countries with good tap water, is just plain silly.