Maryland DC suburbs. If I drank water, it’d be from the tap.
I drink delicious San Francisco water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Apparently it’s considered to be some of the purest tap water in the world.
Oregon. Tap water. Even if some guy peed in the Portland reservoir.
Tap water. Comes from the American River. I like it.
I mainly drink water from the icemaker/water thingy in the fridge door because it’s cold. It is filtered, but when the light comes on every few months telling me it’s time to change the filter, I push the button three times to reset the light.
I may not be getting the full benefit of the filtering system.
I do drink from the bathroom sink tap. I’d have no problem filling up a cup from a water spigot or drinking from a garden hose.
Drink tap water at home. With ice–keep a jug in the refrigerator during the summer. It tastes fine. At work, we’ve got a machine that dispenses chilled water & ice–made from city water that goes through a filter.
Grew up on well water. With or without the softener, it was grim. The Gulf coastal prairie isn’t the Great North Woods…
I typically drink filtered water from the dispenser on the fridge, mainly because it’s so nicely chilled. Otherwise, I don’t have anything against the tap water at home.
The tap water at work (in a different county from where I live) is nasty, with a bad aftertaste. We do have several filter stations though, so I guess I’m technically drinking the tap water there.
I do have a Brita pitcher that we used to use when we lived in California, in the San Francisco Bay area. I think the California water quality varried over the course of the year, and that we only used it maybe half the year.
I’m in Ann Arbor, Michigan now, and we have good quality tap water that I drink straight, unfiltered. I’ve never felt like I needed to filter our water here. ETA: Actually, I’d prefer to drink our tap water over bottled water. I worry about whether any chemicals leach out of the plastic bottle into the water.
I drink bottled only because I hate the taste of the local water. I visited New York and I was amazed at how good the tap water was in the city. No health concerns, just don’t like the taste. Got to get me one of those filter thingys.
I drink filtered tap water. At work we have filtered chilled water on tap. At home I use a Brita filter. I didn’t used to when I lived elsewhere but where I am now the tap water tastes terrible. I don’t know what causes it but the Brita filters filter it out for way longer than recommended on the filters. Maybe a year or so until the filtered water begins to taste off.
I would only ever buy bottled water maybe once a year.
Tap.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no and no.
No.
Yes, sure, and no.
I’m currently on well water in Vermont, but I’d have given the same answers in cities I’ve lived in previously.
Unless the relevant authorities issue a warning telling you otherwise, the water coming out of your tap is perfectly healthy without filtration. Like germophobia, this is a whole lot of fuss about nothing at all.
Tap water here, no filter. Tastes fine to me and can’t imagine spending extra money and waste on bottled water.
I drink bottled water. My current residence is a WW2-vintage (possibly older - I have a genuine icebox in the kitchen) apartment building, and the plumbing seems old and has weird stuff in it. My previous residence was a house that was over 100 years old. Again, old plumbing. I don’t have any issues with my city’s water supply, but I have issues with my domestic plumbing.
We paid $5000 for a well, pump, etc., plus a fee for testing - I’m going to get my money’s worth!
I drink tap water - it’s delicious. Testing revealed no problematic bacteria, pesticides, etc. No filter. We will, of course, have the water tested regularly.
I drink tap water in my apartment in Chicago. I prefer the taste of sparkling water, but I’ll certainly drink tap water.
Do you drink tap water or bottled water? - I drink our tap water every day. I’m drinking some right now.
And are you concerned that tap water may have pesticide, fertilizer, rust, lead, copper, medications or other chemicals or harmful bacteria in it. - No
And do you think the chlorine they add to it tap water can effect your health. - Nope
Also have you tried the brita water filters that you can put on your tap and do you think they work and are worth the money. - Never tried one…our water tastes just fine
And please state what area you are in becasue some places (like NYC) have very good tap water and others do not. - Sacramento, CA
Tap water. We use a Brita filter for coffee and in the kitchen, but tap everywhere else. I’m from New York where the water is wonderful, and lived in mid-Illinois where the artesian well water is even better. When I visited my parents in LA the water was a bit odd tasting, but it’s been good everywhere else.
And the OP should really watch the Penn and Teller Bullshit episode on bottled water. It’s hilarious.
I drink tap water, unfiltered, full of chlorine, fluoride and whatever the hell else the Vic government pumps into it.
tastes fine to me.
I personally consider bottled water to be the greatest scam of all time. I’ll buy a bottle of water rarely and refill the bottle several times.
I use a Brita filter on my tap water, mostly just to remove the chlorine taste (I’m not concerned about the quality of Houston tapwater, just the taste).
On the boat, I drink the desalinated reverse osmosis water, and bottled water as well.
The only place I didn’t like the tap water was in Jacksonville, FL. It had a strong sulfur odor and, at my in-laws’ anyway, particles of something floating in it. In the county just to the south, where we lived, the tap water and well water was fine. I have no idea why Jax couldn’t manage to get rid of the smell and the floaty bits.
We’ve got a well that produces very good water. I grew up in Baltimore and always drank tap water. One of my sisters, tho, buys bags of ice and big bottles of water for home use. This began after she got married - I have no idea what her problem is…