Tap or Bottled Water?
By suziecat7
@suziecat7 (3350)
Asheville, North Carolina
June 20, 2016 5:58pm CST
Do you drink water right out of the faucet or do you only drink bottled water? I still drink the tap water though I must admit ever since the terrible water situation in Flint, Michigan, I eye my own city water with suspicion. Of course who knows what goes into the bottled water? They say it's from a bubbling stream or a clear and cold artisan well, but can we be sure?
With all the taxes we pay, you would think that the safety of what we drink and eat should be assured. It isn't so. Businesses care about the bottom line and unfortunately governments are run like businesses.
I drink more bottled water these days. And still some tap water too. I guess you just have to trust the powers-that-be like the folks in Flint did. Right.
Lyrics to Brad Paisley's song, Don't Drink the Water, featuring Blake Shelton. It's off his latest album, This is Country Music! I own nothing, it belongs to...
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@JudyEv (339355)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jun 16
We are not supplied with any water here and catch the rain water off our roof. It goes into a big tank and is then piped back to the house. It is beautiful water to drink and I only buy bottled water if we are out and I don't have any with me.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
21 Jun 16
That seems perfect - all natural.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
21 Jun 16
Oh - a little sneaky there - ha ha. I think tap water is safe too. Though it often tastes bleachy.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
21 Jun 16
I never think to look for warnings. I wouldn't know where to look.
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@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
21 Jun 16
@suziecat7 I'm not always sure where to look either, but things like this have a way of getting to me one way or another.
@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
21 Jun 16
Some of them do have an aftertaste especially the ones that say electrolytes added.
@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
21 Jun 16
I filter my tap water through a Brita filter. i almost laughed when I read bottled water coming from a bubbling stream or artisan well. A good deal of the bottled water comes from tap water that has been filtered. In other words, filter your tap water and you have the same thing.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
@RichardMeister - They cannot be trusted - that's for sure.
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
22 Jun 16
@suziecat7 I watched a news report on this. If part of a city's water comes from a bubbling stream (and many rivers start from or have bubbling stream contributing to them) or artisan well then they can legally say their bottled water is from a bubbling stream or an artisan well. I forgot which bottled water it was but one came right out of the New York City tap. So you may be drinking nothing but New York City tap water albeit filtered. And that filter is probably no better than a filter you would use at home.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
21 Jun 16
I've thought about getting a filter for my faucet. Hmm.
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@jazel_juan (15746)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
I could still remember those days when we could just drink the water right out of the faucet. Sad to say we can't now :(
Just this summer the city where I live here in the Philippines was hit with an epidemic. Due to extreme heat, no rain for months, the water became scarce and water supply also got contaminated. So a lot of kids got sick because of it..Thank goodness for bottled water, we had to buy and sacrifice buying it. I had my husband buy us 10 gallons of it per week just for water consumption..from cooking to drinking we had to buy the bottled ones and we can't rely on the water from the faucet. Those were just for washing clothes and cleaning etc.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
It sure makes it difficult when there's no clean drinking water.
@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
Does it run dry every summer?
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
23 Jun 16
@suziecat7 Actually , this is the first time that it happened . My husband said it could be also that the spring inside is gone already .
We will be hiring someone who will fix the deep well soon . If it needs to be dug deeper than it will be done .
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
21 Jun 16
@suziecat7 Gotcha.If it not water then something is going to get us.lol
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
It's good to have a well.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5017)
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21 Jun 16
When I was a kid we drink water straight from the faucet.Now,I have purified or alkaline water
Delivered fr our trusted water refilling station.For my baby,I buy distilled water from the grocery.I just trust tap water theses days
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
Things were different years ago. Distilled water for the baby sounds like a good idea.
@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
We drink from a gallon of bottled water in our house. But I sometimes drink straight from the faucet because water from the gallon gets warm in hot days while tap is usually much cooler and has less taste.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
we fill a pitcher (that has a snap-on lid) with bottled water then keep it in the fridge.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
@Tierkreisze an empty pitcher taking up space in the fridge
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
@hereandthere That too. But sometimes, the pitcher just runs out of water because somebody drinks it all up and doesn't refill it. We also have ice in the freezer. I'm usually too lazy to take the ice, though so I just drink from tap.
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
We drink bottled water at home and we're confident of its cleanliness. One of our daughters had been on a field trip to the bottling plant of the water brand we're buying and saw how hygienic their process was.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
21 Jun 16
Visiting the bottling plant is the best way to be confident of the company. Good for you.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
@suziecat7 Yes, and that's the reason why we've been buying our bottled water from this company for a little over 13 years now.
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@Keepsaying (37)
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21 Jun 16
I drink boiled tap water. for the sake of our own health, I'd better suggest you drink filtered tap water.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
You all are convincing me o get a filter for the faucet.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
21 Jun 16
@Keepsaying Off topic: I noticed that you haven't done any discussion yet, is it coming soon?
@Keepsaying (37)
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22 Jun 16
@marlina
sure, I'm new here. Soon I will start my own discussion. When I do, come to see.
@annierose (21583)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
We used to drink from bottled water before but since we have an on-going house construction, we are trying hard to cut our budget. At present, we just drink from tap water. Nothing's bad happen so far. Once we finished all the house projects then we might go back to bottled water.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
It is certainly an added expense and I'm sure you'll be okay with the tap water.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
21 Jun 16
In France, the quality of tap water depends mainly of the place where we live, but it is supposed to be drinkable. Where I live actually it comes from a deep source, it is not chalky and comparable to a mineral water. In my previous place, it was a water filtered from a river, it was tasting bad and I was buying bottled water...
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
I always worry about filtered water from rivers.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
i still drink from the faucet, but we also have bottled water delivered for the dispenser.
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
I like the idea of getting a filter for the faucet.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
23 Jun 16
@suziecat7 we're considering something like the brita pitcher
Brita water filter pitchers come in different sizes and colors but they all bring you fresh tasting water! Read water filter pitcher reviews here.
@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
I drink both but I know some who will drink only bottled.
@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
I like vitamin water too.
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@KristenH (33380)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
22 Jun 16
@suziecat7 Sparkling ICE is one of my faves. 
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
22 Jun 16
@KristenH - the orange one :))
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
21 Jun 16
In my house, we order purified drinking water. Everyday the retailer bringing the gallon of water.
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