I’ve been drinking out of the same Dasani bottle for months, and I feel okay.
Also, I let my work coffee cup sit over the weekend with coagulating creamer in it, then wash it with cold water and hand soap in the restroom. Looks clean…
I’ve been drinking out of the same Dasani bottle for months, and I feel okay.
Also, I let my work coffee cup sit over the weekend with coagulating creamer in it, then wash it with cold water and hand soap in the restroom. Looks clean…
Man, if you’re losing enough detritus out of your mouth in backwash to support significant bacterial growth, you’ve got much more serious problems than drinking day-old water.
The more I read the Dope, the more I become convinced that germophobia has reached pandemic proportions.
Don’t the massive explosions perturb your neighbors?
It is true, though, that water left out can go bad!
I was in a situation where i needed to boil drinking water in large batches, and kept it in a closed metal water filter with a spigot. Usually I’d got through the batch in 3-4 days. If it went much longer than that, though, it would start to feel thick and eventually develop strands of bacterial growth.
Unsweetened ice tea will do the same thing.
Don’t be silly: it’s all done inside a fuel cell…
Jesus! How big is that bottle?
The germophobe-causing bacteria has been thriving on toilet seats and unwashed bathroom doorknobs. We need more Clorox products.
Me too.
Looks at Dasani bottle
Looks at Dung Beetle
Looks at Dasani bottle
Looks at Dung Beetle
Looks at Dasani bottle
Looks at Dung Beetle
HEY!
Too late now!
Looks like I’m gonna need a new bottle. And I’m locking it in my desk!
Rather that than refrigerated water that has the stale-milk refrigerator taste to it. If you keep water in the fridge, keep it covered!
ETA: actually water is about the only drink I prefer at refrigerator temperature or colder, everything else I’d prefer a few degrees warmer.
My mom actually gets concerned about the unfinished water bottles in her room. The only reason I care is that I don’t like drinking after other people if I know they’ve been sick. And we all tend to leave water bottles around.
2 hydrogen? All that fully saturated stuff might not be good for you,
The secret, I’m told, is to take really small sips.
I have a water bottle that sits on my desk at all times with varying levels of water in it. I refill it out of the water filter tap in the lunchroom when it gets low or empty without washing it. Every month or so it’ll start to smell musty so I’ll scrub it out with the scrubby dealy in the lunchroom and rinse, then it’s fine for another month or so. There was one time I’d left the lid screwed on but it was damp and empty, and it looked like things were growing in it so I scrubbed it really well then, but that’s the only time I’ve really been concerned.
I think you misunderstand me. I was expressing disbelief at the twin notions that (a) water needs to be kept refrigerated, and (b) if not refrigerated, it will somehow “go off”. That water has likely been hanging around the planet for aeons, it’s not suddenly going to turn into toxic waste beacuse you leave it in a plastic bottle overnight. :rolleyes:
I don’t really like to drink anything at refrigerator temperature, apart from lager. Cold drinks hurt my teeth.
This past summer I went kayaking after work one afternoon. After taking a long pull of water from my camelbak, I realized that it was tepid. I normally fill it with ice and water and it stays cold for hours. Turns out I was drinking water left over from a week prior. Didn’t stop me from finishing it.
You know we don’t refrigerate the water before it gets to you, right? Presuming you’re on city water and not your own well.
In the winter, I only fill the water tower about every other day. And it’s not a closed pressure tank; a water tower is open to atmospheric pressure. So it’s essentially sitting out. That’s why we chlorinate it. And yes, chlorine does degrade or evaporate, but I can run the pumps on Monday and still have chlorine in the system on Wednesday. And at a level below which most people can’t taste it.
So it doesn’t matter if it also sits out on your nightstand. After a few days, the chlorine will probably dissipate from your drinking glass, but there just aren’t a whole lot of airborne pathogens floating around in most people’s air, chronic hoarders excluded.
I’ve been using a stainless steel water bottle during the week, haven’t seen anything funky growing on it. I just empty and rinse it each day, and wash it once a week.