# What water do you drink at home?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 12, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367 "2011-03-12T02:25:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/1 "2011-03-12T02:25:48Z")
I am not doing a poll. I am curious what types, brands and ways do people here drink water. Brita? Plain tap? Polar? I need a new way and am looking for input.
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### Author:  [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/2 "2011-03-12T02:29:37Z")
Tap.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/3 "2011-03-12T02:31:55Z")
Tap. In case you’re interested, it’s also the kind of water I drink when at restaurants.
Except at bars - for water there, I drink Miller Light.
-D/a
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/4 "2011-03-12T02:35:10Z")
Chicago tap. Carbonated in a Soda Club machine.
If you find drinking water boring or tedious, I recommend switching to sparkling water.
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### Author:  [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/5 "2011-03-12T02:37:39Z")
Tap through a filter I installed on the side of the sink.
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### Author:  [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/6 "2011-03-12T02:38:16Z")
Tap = well water. Sometimes I fire up the soda siphon.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/7 "2011-03-12T02:41:00Z")
Tap. We have some of the nation’s best tap water here - I don’t understand why on earth people drink bottled in places where it isn’t nasty.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/8 "2011-03-12T02:48:55Z")
Filtered tap.
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### Author:  [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/9 "2011-03-12T02:58:04Z")
Filtered water from the refrigerator. I would prefer it at room temperature, though.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/10 "2011-03-12T03:02:15Z")
Mixture of boiled and bottled. Of course, I’m in Bangkok.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/11 "2011-03-12T03:04:37Z")
Water from the kiosks outside the grocery store that lets you fill up 5 gallon bottles and then a water dispenser that filters that.
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### Author:  [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/12 "2011-03-12T03:05:31Z")
Brita pitcher in the refrigerator.
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### Author:  [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/13 "2011-03-12T03:12:13Z")
I drink that all exclusive brand called Tap ™.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/14 "2011-03-12T03:13:46Z")
My tap water tastes chlorinated, but coming through the charcoal filter in the fridge it’s just fine. If I didn’t have that, I’d either have a Brita pitcher in the fridge or I’d have a water dispenser (refrigerated and filtered) plumbed into the water supply so I’d always have cold filtered water. Of course I suppose ice would do that job as well.
At work I normally just have a bottle of water on my desk. Actually, there’s normally two or three of them. I never understood the contempt for bottled water. People get all weird about it. It really isn’t that expensive. It’s cold, it’s convenient, it tastes good, it’s 12.5¢ per bottle where we buy it…I can live with that. But then I don’t go through that many. Yeah, there’s two of three of them on my desk, but I’ll work on them for a few days. I seem to wind up with them since I’m in and out of the office so much. So if I’m in the store and want some water, I’ll grab it, when I get back to my office, it’ll wind up on my desk. As one empties, I’ll toss it, eventually, I’ll end up with another.
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/15 "2011-03-12T03:14:10Z")
Filtered from the tap. However, I prefer sparkling water and usually have plenty around.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/16 "2011-03-12T03:14:25Z")
Plain tap water.
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/17 "2011-03-12T03:16:03Z")
Fresh from Lake Michigan. Very very local. The lake is a block from my apartment.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/18 "2011-03-12T03:16:55Z")
Tap.
Why wouldn’t we? I live in Michigan.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/19 "2011-03-12T03:17:42Z")
Drinking water bought in gallon jugs from the grocery store, store brand. Tap water here is exceedingly disgusting.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/20 "2011-03-12T03:18:15Z")
R/O filtered (just for taste) Tap.
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