Bottled water or tap water?

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On Long Island, my pediatrician told me that the fluoride in tap water was actually good for baby teeth so it was always tap. Down here, with well water, tap tastes like it was seasoned with Nair, so we just use a filter system.

I just use a Brita....does the trick

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Tap is supposedly fortified.

Wasn't there a thread on this before? I recall arguing with Lonewulf...

But to reduce the conflict in my own life:
Dr Pepper.

Rainwater and Grain Alcohol, of course.

I must maintain my Purity of Essence.

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We use a Brita filter, but the quality of the Albuquerque aquifer water is quite good. Albuquerque is switching over to a mix of underground water and Rio Grande water that is actually pumped over from the western portion of the continental divide from another water-shed -- quite a piece of engineering work; the Chama river project.

After the switch I imagine the Brita filter will be necessary, rather than just a luxury.

We have a 2.5 gallon (9.5 liter) 'tank' in our refrigerator to keep the water nice and cold.

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Since I'm a commie I drink tap water.

Every study I've seen as shown that most cities' tap water is as pure (if not purer) than any of the bottled waters. And all those plastic bottles are making a lot of garbage and are wasting a lot of crude oil.

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I do, because I'm cheap and lazy.

Absolutely. Even when our water has that algea essence to it (about a week out of the year) I still trust that it's safe enough.

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Our water is fortified with sulfur...mmm
Every year someone starts up a rumor that we are going city water and sewers and every year I cross my fingers.

Our tap water is fine for drinking, but it is hard enough that my coffee maker would periodically need an acid cleaning, so I use bottled water mainly for making coffee.

Tap water, of course. It's a little hard from the well, but I just turn on the faucet and cut off the necessary lengths.

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I have a filter on the faucet. I use filtered water for drinking, making ice cubes, and cooking. For washing dishes, I don't worry about it!

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Tap water. Of course, I drink a fair amount of bottled water too, but it isn't very pure - it's got all kinds of sugar, and coloring, and other such contaminants in it

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I use a Brita filter for tap water. There's no way I'm going to pay for bottled water - most of it costs more than gasoline!

Old cliche but still true: Evian is naive spelled backwards.

Tap, from private well. Very good for drinking, and quite cold straight out of the hose.

Put in a 3/4 hp pump last year. We get very nice pressure even with every tap in the house wide open. The toilet fills in about 20 seconds.

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Most tap water down here [my state] comes straight from the aquifer and it´s pure and crystalline. Treatment adds fluoride. But I´m really a gasified bottled water buff.

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I had a long-winded point already typed up when I'd read Matherly's post.
How can I possibly follow that? So, in the form of fark:

"THIS!"

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Filter. But only because the water in Kingston tastes... funky. Otherwise, it's tap.

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I voted "other" but what I really needed was "all of the above". Our tap water here in Everett, WA is very good (especially since they started filtering the asbestos out about 20 years ago) but the water at our vacation home, from a community water system, is safe but tastes bad so we use bottled or filtered water there. I also keep a Brita pitcher in the fridge at each place, partially just to have a good cold supply. I use Brita water in the coffee makers as well to reduce cleaning.

And I'm quite partial to carbonated (seltzer) water on occasion.

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Tap water. Fortunately they don't put flouride in it here. On the other hand it is pretty 'hard' - your pots can get calcium deposits if you don't dry them off after washing. I don't know where it comes from - probably out of the local lakes.

The big trend here is carbonated "mineral water." I'm sure it comes out of the tap at some point, but it is nicely filtered. I can't be bothered though.

- J