Say what?
BTW I drink tap water. From a well. Sissies. 
Any excuse to go to Hot Springs.
It would be, like, illegal to trade it for beer, right?
I’m sure everyone knows this, but I always thought it was funny that Evian backwards was naive.
That’s like comparing apples and oranges.
You don’t have to buy bottled water, but most of us have to pay the gas prices.
I miss Volvic. It tasted almost sweet.
Take a bus. Bike. Car pool and split the gas money. You don’t have to pay for all that gas yourself.
These can also not be possible. Busses may not go to where you need to go (not every city has a good bus system). The distance may be too great to bike. There may be no people you can car pool with, who go where you also go.
Sometime you have to buy the gas.
Tastes differ, I guess. Seattle’s tap water always tasted pretty good to me.
Las Vegas, now there’s tap water that tastes like it’s been through the urine recyc system one too many times…
There’s a brand call Hinckley and Schidt?? How does it sell?
I got the bottled water habit in Europe, too. I buy Gerolsteiner or Appolinaris fizzy mineral waters (whichever is cheapest that week). We make juice spritzers in our house; not soda or Koolaid. Less sugar and calories; more minerals like calcium. Definitely more expensive than Koolaid, though.
Exactly-our tap water here tastes disgusting-not dirty, it just has this plasticky-metallic taste to it. Yuck.
So we just buy the Dannon stuff and stick it in the fridge.
You can buy filtered pitchers and even tap attachments. The pitcher though wouldn’t fit in our fridge.
Ye gods, don’t remind me.
I remember staying a few nights in LA. I bustled over to the hotel room’s bathroom tap, poured myself a mug of water, took a biiiiig long drink…and spat it right back out.
shudders
Our tap water tastes bad.
Otherwise, I would!
I am very, very impressed. Wanna get married? 
And sometimes you have to buy bottled water.
My roommate seriously thinks that the water they give you in cups at McDonalds for free is spring water. :smack:
I’m not into this whole bottled water fad. It seems rather ridiculous to buy water that you can get from a tap. But maybe it’s just me.
Mountain Valley Spring… mmm. Lime.
Weird, I thought I hit Submit, but this was in preview for a couple of days. That’s what I get for having 30 browser windows open at one time.
Same here. I fill bottles halfway with Britta water and put them in the freezer. When they’re frozen I take them out, let them melt down a little, top them off with more Britta, then put them in the fridge. I have a constantly rotating stock of iced water that we drink here and take with us when we go to the movies. Since we only ever drink water, and only out of bottles, our glasses have become obsolete. My fridge freezer is so stocked with frozen, half-frozen, and getting-ready-to-be-frozen plastic bottles that there’s no room for any food. We bought an upright freezer specifically for food.
It’s very weird, and might seem obsessive (maybe even white-trashy), but we now drink a LOT of water, whereas before I started doing this, we both hated water. I can think back to when I’d go for several months if not years at a time and never drink a drop of water, and then only if I was taking a pill.
If I’m out and about and have no water with me and get thirsty, I’ll buy another bottled water, but I’ll make sure the bottle itself is sturdy so it will last repated freezings/meltings, and has a good cap, preferably one that will fit some of the other bottles so I don’t have to play which-cap-fits-which-bottle? when I wash them. My favorite bottle is Silver Creek, plus they claim that 10% of the proceeds goes toward Breast Cancer research. I’ve bought several, but son’t ask me what the water tastes like.
You think so? Blah. We started doing the Britta thing after we moved to Chicago because the water tasted so nasty to us. For some reason Britta tasted better to us so we stuck with it. Maybe we just had nasty water pipes. I know in our current apartment, you have to let the cold water run for a while, because if the tap hasn’t been turned on for a while the water comes out orange. Yuk.
The best tap water I ever tasted was, oddly enough, in New York City.
Now I remember why I had it in Preview, to go double-check the spelling of Brita and check for typos. Damn.
Everybody gets used to the taste of their local water; the summer I lived at my g-parents’ lakehouse in wisconsin, I got used to nasty, irony, sulfury well water, and it took me a while to get used to Chicago water again when I came home.
Chicago used to be famous for how bad its water was, so in the 70s the municipal water system underwent a great number of changes. By the late eighties, it was among the cleanest municipal waters in the country, when it beat out Evian in a series of blindfolded “pepsi-like” challenges, all held, IIRC, in the East Coast; the purpose of the challenges had been to get people to drink NYC water, but the
Chicago water came from behind and beat them all.
I’m 16. 'Nuff said.
Ah… So not for a couple years then.
Sorry dude, didn’t know you were only 16.