You know, if you ever go hiking and might end up in a situation kinda like that. It's good to carry water purifying tablets

- Chris

 

I did have something like that, called PolarPure, an iodine solution.

If there is a next time, I may just carry extra water.

But that's a big if.

 

I get Dasani (Coke product) water occasionally. They did a very good job on getting the taste right. Auquafina (Pepsi product) tastes like something drained out of a radiator. Many of the bottled waters have a strange taste. I have found a few good ones over the years but the stores don't seem to stock them continuously. The water where I live tastes bad but it is OK when filtered and left to stand in the refrigerator. I use that water to refill my Dasani water bottle. The PET bottles work fine for refilling. I won't spend the big bucks for Nalgene bottles. When the PET bottle gets damaged or dirty I toss it and get a new one. I use bottled water when away from home to avoid gastric distress.

I like the Lexan bottles but I think PET is better. Polyethylene anything always has a nasty taste and a greasy feel to me.

Don't drink any water out in the wild without purification etc. There are things growing in it that can make you very very sick.

 

Story about the guy who was hauled into court for selling tap water as spring water. Admitted the water in the bottles was city tap water, ..."But your honor, I bottle all my water in the spring of the year, so it is spring water".
Got off on a technicality!
Aside from that, it's Brita pitcher all the way. Once paid $3.00 for a bottle - in a movie theatre where you're not allowed to bring anything in - wife needed to take a pill..... Da**- I hate the greed in thoes places. ......

 

I recall reading an article a few years ago about different bottled waters, and the different tastes they have form the various mineral content. Apparently, some people with way too much time on their hands have started to recommend different brands of bottled water to compliment different foods...like wine. Great, now we have water snobs!

 

I grab a glass......fill it with ice from the fridge dispenser then fill it with water from the tap.

 

What is evian spelled backwards? There is your answer. The French's opinion of bottled water!

 

I use a brita water bottle. It cost me about $7 2 years ago, and the replacement filters are $2.50 each. They last for about 10 gallons of filtration- or until the water starts to taste funny. I throw the bottle in the dishwasher every now and then and the taste is fine.

 

Most bottled water tastes like it has dirt in it to me. Guess it is the "secret" minerals and such.

I use a home Reverse Osmosis filter system so I am used to that water. At work we have filtered water systems. We also have a big De-Ionized water system which I sneak some for my tea.

One word of warning to those who refill their bottles...

Last year there was a news series about people who refill their water bottles. They tested the water in the bottles of people who constantly refilled them. Many of the bottles had high levels of bacteria in them, I think more than half at fitness clubs. 99.9% of the time no problem. But once in awhile you will get a nasty bug in there and the "s" hits the fan.

I had this problem a couple years back. I refilled my water bottles without giving them a good cleaning between uses. This worked fine for several years until one day, I was on a hike and had my water bottles along as usual, filled with my RO water from home. During the hike I started to feel a bit queasy. Within one hour of getting home I was sick as a dog.

I had the Tijuana Two Step for about a week. I lost 20 pounds(not a good thing in this case) off my manly 280 pound frame. I was out of work all that time. What was really strange was that my skin was kind of like thin leather, If I pinched a fold of skin, it would stay pinched for a minute or so, not pop back to my usual sleek contours.

Anyway, what I am saying is clean your bottles frequently, especially if they are going to sit for a few days. Most of the time you are OK, but that one pass with the fast shuffle was enough to convince me to sterilze my bottles everytime I use them. I either rinse with clean water and then Alcohol, or with my metal canteens I put them in the oven at 250 for half an hour.

As far as bottled waters go, I prefer the distilled ones. Many cities have tasty water too and are better tasting and probably safer than many bottled brands.

Good Luck,

Jim Henderson

 

We buy whatever is on sale.. most taste the same to me, as long as it's COLD.

I sometimes re-fill my bottle with spring water from the water cooler, but I'll only re-use it that day. It gets thrown away at the end of the day.

Water from the bathroom tap tastes awesome. I'll often take a few swigs after brushing my teeth. Yummmmm....

 

LOL!! Hyat was my favorite, followed by Nestle "purelife". I hated that stuff in the green and blue bottles with arabic writing all over it. I think it was bottled in Egypt. When you get home, the difference in taste will blow you away. I brought my family home a few bottles of Hyat and they said it tasted really funny.

 

I think it's called backwash. [/QUOTE]

LMFAO
My bottled water comes in 12 pk containers, carefully refined & treated by those fine folks in Shiner

 

Ever read the back of the walmart brand water bottles?
It says the source is the Bentonville, Arkansas municipal supply. IT'S TAP WATER!!!!
Best water ever is the well water at my grandparent's farm. Ice cold, striaght out of the ground, 200ft deep well.

 

Found this link on re-using water bottles. Interesting.

http://www.designboom.com/eng/educat...t/bottled.html

 

I doubt that a normal human adult with get sick from reusing bottles, the bacteria that could build up is probably gonna be normal flora from your mouth. But I wouldn't drink a half empty bottle that been sitting in the truck for a couple days.