If you live in New Jersey, you better drink it from a bottle, ugh, it’s the worst water I’ve ever tasted. Lucky I get to drink good 'ol NYC tap water.
No. Boiling water kills all the microscopic bugs, which helps prevent you from getting sick. Best water I ever had was straight from the tap in Norway. Ecuador, however, was another thing entirely as we had to boil the water there if we wanted to do anything with it. Houston is somewhere in between, but I’ve got a water filter on my tap for good measure.
I’ve lived in 4 countries, and travelled to many more. I have always drunk tap water, sometimes well water. I refuse to buy bottled water since it tastes stale to me, and only drink it if a tap isn’t available (eg, on long train trips).
Maybe it helps that I grew up in Barbados and developed some kind of natural immunity? I don’t know. Otoh, Barbados did pride itself on the purity of its water, since it filters down through a lot of rock before it is collected - or so I was taught at school.
I can certainly understand why you’d buy bottled water when you’re out, but drinking bottled water at home is positively wasteful. A tap filter is a fraction the cost of the cheapest bottled water, and a good filter makes for BETTER, safer, and cleaner water than what you’ll get out of bottled water - water run from a tap and then filtered hasn’t been sitting on a shelf for weeks where microbes can multiply.
This is America. It’s the land of opportunity for people who want to pay a lot for something they can get much cheaper. Tap water is fine with me.
First of all, I don’t like the taste of water in general, so I tend to drink unhealthy soda, juice, etc. instead. There are, however, times that you need to put water in your mouth, such as tooth brushing and rinsing the mouth afterwards. So, anyway, I never saw the point of bottled water because tap water tasted just fine to me. I was in Tallahassee last summer, and filled a glass with tap water to use for my tooth-brushing.
It was milky white.
I went to the gas station and bought a bottle of water PDQ.