Tap or Bottled Water?

[labbiedor]

I honestly don't really have a preference - I hardly even drink water by itself. The tap water where I live usually tastes just fine, but when I want to drink a glass of water, I usually just grab a bottled water and pour it into a glass. I actually can't stand drinking any kind of plain water unless it's ice cold - I think it's gross that it just tastes like nothing. But, I do really like the flavored bottle water (especially the lemon and raspberry ones)!

[drummer.a.h]

I usually drink filtered. I can't stand most bottled water. Blech.

However, I picked drinking from a hose...I did that all the time as a kid, and I turned out just fine. (Sorta.) I think people are a bit paranoid about drinking from the hoses. As long as you drink it after you let it run for a while and don't make it your main intake of fluid, I think 99% of the time you'll be fine.

</random rant about hoses>

[draconis]

Filtered, if boiling counts as a filter. Partially because even with all the tap water in Singapore being potable (as the government keeps claiming), I've been raised to play safe and boil it before drinking. Also, bottled water = plastic bottles = bad. There have been all those reports about how even spring water isn't good because of all the things involved, like having to transport your bottles to and the water from the place. Not sure if they're true, but I believe in global warming and well, I guess every little bit counts.

[Siouxper]

Tap water, right out of the sink. In our area, the water is pretty clean, and we don't get sick from it or anything. Bottled water is expensive, wastes plastic (which we don't recycle), and is just not worth it to me.

[Nikita]

Bottled water for me, we also have one of those big water coolers that we get filled.
There's a drinking ban on the water in my town (unless you boil the water first), which is why I don't drink tap. :P

[Penguin]

I get tap water and put it in a jug in my fridge because Im strange like that and when its filtered in the jug it gets the rotten egg taste of sulfates out of it

[Rissa]

I think the idea of buying bottled water when I can get water at home for free is a little ridiculous.

And I can't tell the difference between water from our fridge and water from our tap, so...

[Hil]

I drink tap water because it's free and our water is clean.

[CommanderSwiss]

Tap from a filter- the tap water in my dorm could kill a man.

[Lee]

For what ever reason, I'm one of those people who can't stand the taste of water. Yeah I drink it though, I do want to survive! But I drink flavored bottled, or I have one of those filters that puts the flavor in.

[pipsqueeek]

I'm not a huge fan of water to begin with- I can really only drink it if I'm really thirsty or if it's ice cold. I can't stand bottled water. It's gross and I've never understood the logic behind paying a dollar for a bottle of something I could get for free. At home, when I drink water, it's tap water. We've got a well, so it's pretty good. Or so I hear, I hardly ever drink it myself since if I'm at home I could just have milk or juice or cider instead xD.
Actually, the way I get most of my water is at water fountains xD. I don't know what it is, but that somehow makes it better . I always stop at water fountains when I pass them. It drives my friends crazy xD.

[May]

I'm not really a big fan of water either, but if I drink it, I usually get it from my Brita pitcher in the refrigerator.

[Metatwaddle]

Tap water, but with a Brita filter.

I always LOL at the people who go, "Dasani is tap water! From NEW JERRSSEEEEYYY! That's gross, amirite?" Listen, guys- that stuff isn't the runoff from some Newark refinery. It comes up from the pine barrens in South Jersey. I've drunk the tap water there, and it's awesome. You can drink it without a filter. Dasani only sucks because they charge you so much money for it when filtered water is easy to get.