# What water do you drink at home? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/41 "2011-03-12T07:01:31Z")
I live in San Jose Ca. No way I am drinking the tap water untreated. I have a RO system in my house, it is that or bottled water. I have seen new brass valves eaten up in 2 years. What is in the water that will eat brass that fast. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/42 "2011-03-12T07:03:12Z")
Tap. I suspect that all bottled water is really just tap water anyway. Didn’t Penn and Teller do a _Bullshit_ episode where they showed that people couldn’t tell the difference between bottled water and water from a hose? ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/43 "2011-03-12T07:10:42Z")
Home is Southern California where the water out of the tap is liquid rock. It is very hard water, confirmed by the annual water quality report I receive in the mail. **Snnipe 70E** mentioned what happens to the valves, so I am looking into a water softener to extend the life of the plumbing throughout the house. We have been drinking reverse osmosis filtered water since 2003. It tastes fantastic. The plain tap water at home tastes like ass. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/44 "2011-03-12T07:45:18Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Ew, so gross, so gross! How do you _do_ that? The water here is so yucky! I wish I could drink the tap water here- are you hard of tasting, or what? 😛 Nope. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to it. I first came here about 30 years ago. But I’ve lived all over Tucson and have never had a problem with drinking the tap water. In fact, I’ve only lived one place here where the water was so undrinkable I had to filter it. Around the Swan and Sunrise area. But every other place, I’ve found the tap water to be totally cromulent. ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/45 "2011-03-12T07:53:02Z")
Culligan bottled water. Brita tap water. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/46 "2011-03-12T08:19:29Z")
I buy a lot of bottled waters but just for the bottle. At home I refill the bottles with tap water, at work I fill from the nearest stream, unless the salmon are running. If the stream water doesn’t get washed out for a few days I will throw out the bottle and buy a new one. The tap refilled bottle will generally last weeks to months. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/47 "2011-03-12T08:22:12Z")
I buy a lot of bottled waters but just for the bottle. At home I refill the bottles with tap water, at work I fill from the nearest stream, unless the salmon are running. If the stream water doesn’t get washed out for a few days I will throw out the bottle and buy a new one. The tap refilled bottle will generally last weeks to months. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/48 "2011-03-12T08:38:38Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Tap through a filter I installed on the side of the sink. Same here. And sparkling mineral water in restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/49 "2011-03-12T09:17:56Z")
Let’s see. I went from Aquafina to Sam’s Choice to gallons of distilled water from a local grocery supplier. I’ve tried the filter thing, but I’ve yet to find any cheap filters that actually make the water taste better. The only good one I’ve found was actually a water softener, and the initial cost is way too much to implement. I still don’t get why people drink Dasani–it tastes like tap water–no sweetness to it at all. Distilled water is slightly sweet. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/50 "2011-03-12T09:24:49Z")
The water in the town where I live is often brownish and tastes like crap. It’s fine for coffee or tea, but really dodgy to drink straight. So I drink sparkling (unflavoured) mineral water, mostly from Aldi…1.25 litres @65c per bottle. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/51 "2011-03-12T09:53:33Z")
Bottled water to drink and cook with. We have bottled water delivered every month. ---
**Author:** ![A.Gwilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@A.Gwilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.Gwilliam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/52 "2011-03-12T11:48:18Z")
Where I’m currently living, I just drink water from the tap. I’ve probably got used to whatever degree of yuckiness there is in the taste. The last two places I lived, I drank tap water that had been run through a Brita filter; it tasted just too plain horrible otherwise. (I’ve just remembered a conversation I overheard in the study area of our local library a while back. Boy teenager offers girl teenager some of his bottled water. She asks him what it is. He tells her it’s tap water. She goes “Eewww!” and looks disgusted. What’s wrong with these kids?! :rolleyes:) > [@BigT](#): > > I still don’t get why people drink Dasani–it tastes like tap water–no sweetness to it at all. Distilled water is slightly sweet. Dasani is an absolute disgrace; how they’re able to get away with selling it is beyond me. Anyway, you’ll be pleased to read that [it’s no longer available everywhere it once was](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani#United_Kingdom). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/53 "2011-03-12T13:39:05Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > Brita pitcher in the refrigerator. This. I strongly prefer the faucet-filter attachment (none of that tedious refilling), but our filter won’t fit our current faucet. So, Brita pitcher in the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/54 "2011-03-12T13:58:17Z")
We use tap water for everything. The only tap water I’ve ever had that I thought was nasty came out of wells, and that’s the only situation in which I’d consider buying bottled or investing in a filtration system. (the only situation in which the tap water is regulated by a trustworthy entity, anyway) ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/55 "2011-03-12T14:05:01Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > 50% tap water run through the Pur faucet filter, 50% Kroger sparkling water. Do you keep a mix in the fridge, or make it fresh every time? 😉 -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/56 "2011-03-12T14:19:55Z")
Even though I’ve mostly given up soda, I still like a little bit of bubbles in my drink. I buy seltzer water and drink that. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/57 "2011-03-12T14:24:31Z")
Daughter went through a phase of keeping a Britta filter thing in the refrigerator, but it took up too much room for the amount of water it held. (she’s one of those super-sensitive germphobes who can tell you the caloric and nutritional value of anything you care to eat or drink.) I took it out and explained we, here, have some of the best tap water in the country from a pristine lake 20 miles away. (there are yearly ‘taste tests’ held every year, and our water always wins. And it has no taste anyway!)…I keep a filled up aluminum bottle of tap water in the refrigerator all the time, and my husband who NEVER drank water is now a convert (miracles do happen). ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/58 "2011-03-12T15:08:35Z")
Brita filter jug in the fridge. London water is lime-tastic and. besides, I like it fridge cold. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/59 "2011-03-12T15:12:27Z")
Tap water filtered through a Brita into a Brita pitcher. ---
**Author:** ![moth1416](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@moth1416](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moth1416)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367/60 "2011-03-12T15:17:01Z")
Tap water, bottled water tastes weird. (My grocery store has a store brand of bottled water, and if you look at the small print you find out it’s “municipal water from Abingdon, VA.” 😃 So people are just getting tap water from two states away.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-water-do-you-drink-at-home/574367.md?page=4)