Bottled water
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From: Charleston, WV
I usually buy a bottle, drink it, then start refilling it from the kitchen sink. Water is water, as far as I'm concerned. Doesn't matter if comes in a bottle, out a faucet, or out a hose. As long as there's nothing floating in it, I'll drink it (I'll sometimes drink it even if there IS something floating in it). The only reason I occasionally buy a bottle is for convenience.
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From: San Francisco, Ca.
I know that the thin plastic bottles are a one time use bottle and shouldn't be re-used.
However, I do reuse the Gatorade bottles. There alot more sturdier.
I did e-mail Gatorade, and asked them about reusing their bottles.
They basically said that it's a one time use bottle, but if you do re-use them, wash them by hand after each refill and don't wash them in the dishwasher.
So I wash my Gatorade bottles after each use with warm soapy water and a bottle brush.
I'm not going to pay a buck a bottle for water.
As for just refilling only, there is stuff floating in the bottle.
You just can't see it.
I think it's called backwash.
However, I do reuse the Gatorade bottles. There alot more sturdier.
I did e-mail Gatorade, and asked them about reusing their bottles.
They basically said that it's a one time use bottle, but if you do re-use them, wash them by hand after each refill and don't wash them in the dishwasher.
So I wash my Gatorade bottles after each use with warm soapy water and a bottle brush.
I'm not going to pay a buck a bottle for water.
As for just refilling only, there is stuff floating in the bottle.
You just can't see it.
I think it's called backwash.
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Originally Posted by mightypan42
I usually buy a bottle, drink it, then start refilling it from the kitchen sink.
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I don't go out of my way to drink bottled water. We have it at work in the dispenser, and if someone offers it to me I'll take it. I'm fine with tap water, or hose water for that matter, if it's hot outside and I'm thirsty.
I have noticed that different bottled waters taste different. We have Arrowhead at work, in the big five-gallon jugs, and that tastes pretty good. Whenever I hear someone open a new bottle of Aquafina, it goes psssst.... like opening a bottle of coke. I dont' trust Aquafina, much. And it's not from a pressure difference, either....
My favorite water to drink is bathroom sink water... it tastes better than other sinks, it seems.
Ever notice that with the bottled water bottles after maybe an hour or two of opening them, they start to smell sorta plasticky? I think the bottle leeches plastic into the water. Nalgene bottles are great for reusing... don't leave odors or tastes behind.
I have noticed that different bottled waters taste different. We have Arrowhead at work, in the big five-gallon jugs, and that tastes pretty good. Whenever I hear someone open a new bottle of Aquafina, it goes psssst.... like opening a bottle of coke. I dont' trust Aquafina, much. And it's not from a pressure difference, either....
My favorite water to drink is bathroom sink water... it tastes better than other sinks, it seems.
Ever notice that with the bottled water bottles after maybe an hour or two of opening them, they start to smell sorta plasticky? I think the bottle leeches plastic into the water. Nalgene bottles are great for reusing... don't leave odors or tastes behind.
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The Bull Run Watershed is about 5 miles away from us, and provides some of the cleanest, highest quality water to be found in the US. And folks still buy bottled water around here, go figure. 
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I have a bottle of water on my desk that I've been refilling a couple times a day for at least a month.
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Bottled water is a huge scam IMO. $1+ for a 16 oz. bottle of water!? It's worse than gas! However, tap water in my area is terrible, so I get my R/O purified water for 5 gal. for a buck at the water mill dispensers they have around here. Then I refill my bottles to take to work.
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Several years ago, I laughed at a friend that bought Evian water. "Ha! $1.50 a bottle. C'mon! Go fill up that bottle with tap water, and let's go."
Little did I know. . . . . .
One day, the tap water at my old shop started running BROWN.
Not just for a moment or so, for ten, maybe fifteen minutes, straight!
It was the pipes and the source. Good ole DC!!
That was when I found bottled water.
Deer Park. My wife gets a case of 24 bottles for less than $6.
I keep a bottle or two in the car, one beside the bed and a case in the refrigerator in the garage.
Going to the range. . . . freeze 4 or 5 bottles - put them in the cooler along with some sandwiches and sodas, you have great water later on, and cold sodas and preserved sandwiches! (And your friends will be drooling over your COLD water, several hours later!)
"Ha! $1.50 a bottle. C'mon! Go fill up that bottle with tap water, and let's go."
Look who's laughing at whom!
Little did I know. . . . . .
One day, the tap water at my old shop started running BROWN.
Not just for a moment or so, for ten, maybe fifteen minutes, straight!
It was the pipes and the source. Good ole DC!!
That was when I found bottled water.
Deer Park. My wife gets a case of 24 bottles for less than $6.
I keep a bottle or two in the car, one beside the bed and a case in the refrigerator in the garage.
Going to the range. . . . freeze 4 or 5 bottles - put them in the cooler along with some sandwiches and sodas, you have great water later on, and cold sodas and preserved sandwiches! (And your friends will be drooling over your COLD water, several hours later!)
"Ha! $1.50 a bottle. C'mon! Go fill up that bottle with tap water, and let's go."
Look who's laughing at whom!
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I don't care for Aquafina, it has a sort of chemical taste to me. Others I've had no problem with.
Our water comes from our own well, and it's nasty right out of the well. Lots of iron and some sulphur. I have two in-line filters where it comes into the house, another filter on the kitchen faucet, and then our drinking water goes through a Britta. After all that it's pretty good, but bottled is still better. Mostly, we get Crystal Geyser (from Mt. Shasta) by the case and I take two cold bottles to work with me every day.
Our water comes from our own well, and it's nasty right out of the well. Lots of iron and some sulphur. I have two in-line filters where it comes into the house, another filter on the kitchen faucet, and then our drinking water goes through a Britta. After all that it's pretty good, but bottled is still better. Mostly, we get Crystal Geyser (from Mt. Shasta) by the case and I take two cold bottles to work with me every day.
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From: waterbury
i live in CT and there is a company who sells water here and it is a known fact that the water they sell is no more than city water that you get out of your faucet but yet they don't get charged extra for the water that they are going to sell