Normally, yes. But Las Vegas officially has the nastiest tap water I have ever tasted. It is at least safer for your taste buds.
I got a Slurpee at a 7-11 in Vegas once and they used tap water to make it. Euuugh.
The first bottle of Dasani I ever saw, when I was in grade school, had in teeny teeny print: “Warning: contains trace amounts of arsenic.”
I have never drunk Dasani.
Hell, they give it to you free in the casinos. Just get it there.
Yes, but it’s not tap water from Las Vegas or another place with poor water quality.
You want to offer me tap water from New York City or San Antonio? I’ll stand in line. Offer me tap water from Borrego Springs, CA, where I used to live? That stuff left noticeable sulphur residue behind and tasted like Satan’s unwashed hindquarters.
Bottled water is popular because it’s portable, potable, and it tastes better than what comes out of the tap, depending on your geographic location.
Plus the bottled water that’s from a municipal source is filtered again before bottling. Today’s Chicago Tribune had an article on residual chemicals/medications in the water supply. One thing revealed in the paper was that the Chicago-area Aquafina comes from a regional municipal water supply - I think it was Muncie, Indiana? It’s sent through various extra filtering before bottling.
The local tap water came back as within safe limits but with minor contaminants that could possibly have an effect over someone’s lifetime or in the future if levels build. The bottled water and Brita-filtered local water came out negative.
Brita needs to start making pool filters.
That’s why I get the canned stuff. It contains trace amounts of alcohol to stifle any harmful bacterial growth. In fact, if you get a case from the Pabst springs, you can generally cleanse out most of your GI tract.
Chill out, the waters fine. A little rocket fuel isn’t going to kill you. You’ll be dead before you know it anyway.
Dead link.
It got too much arsenic, clearly.
Sorry, picunurse. Like as not, it’s my crappy link-creating skills. The upshot is, the groundwater in a good bit of Nevada is contaminated with naturally-occurring arsenic, the worst apparently around Fallon, where it’s so high it actually kills you!
Familiar with former residents of the area
We had asbestos in our water when I was growing up in Kentucky - concentrated enough that you could SEE it.
The article I linked above mentions Milwaukee’s serious testing efforts for 450 unregulated chemicals; they also post the results for the public.
A ~$50 filter will last you at least a year. Cleaner and cheaper than bottled. Granted, not as cool, which is why so many people won’t get one.
True, but one can’t always predict how much water they’ll need before they leave the house, and not all water from taps, drinking fountains, etc., is filtered.
True, but one can buy reusable bottles and the filter is still cleaner and cheaper.
And, come to think of it, when can you not predict how much water you’ll need when you leave the house? Maybe it’s because I live in the desert, but I ALWAYS know how much water I’ll need.
Well, all I have to say is enjoy getting leukemia.
(Note, I’m not wishing leukemia on anyone. I just find it funny that something so lethal actually might cure someone with a pretty nasty disease.)
You learn pretty quick after being stranded without enough. Only takes one time. And come to think of it, after having had this happen before, your concerns about what’s in the water don’t seem so important.
Hey, at least the biggest problem in Las Vegas is just some sort of mineral problem. Not like Alamosa, Colorado had recently. This has taken a month for them to clean up the water there!