Survey: What Water Do You Drink?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 11.17.08
We were pleased to learn that Brita has succumbed to the will of the people and will take back filters for recycling; having to throw out filters every month sort of contradicted the green healthy image. So what do you drink?
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Our water used to be tap drinkable, then they (the local water company) started poisoning it with Chlorine so now we set out glass jars for 24 hours before drinking the water, fill up 5 gallon jug at natural spring when possible, then buy more water in plastic bottles as a last resort
I pour it from the tap into glass bottles and chill it. Yummy.
A while back (multiple months ago)I bought a plastic jug of poland spring, and have since just refilled it with tap water.
Where I lived there is nothing wrong with the tap water, and it tastes just as good as bottled water as long as it's chilled.
I end up having to buy a new plastic water bottle about once a year because my old one comes camping with me, and ultimately gets dirty and dented, and needs to be recycled.
Muddy tap water from a local lake, heavily seasoned with green tea, herbs, and anything else on sale. Probably full of smuggled-out industrial wastes but the great state of Georgia's civil service inspectors are almost certainly paid off by the carpet industry.
Rodney,
Sorry, but what you're saying doesn't make any sense. All U.S. municipal water is treated with chlorine - the FDA requires it as a prophylactic measure to prevent contamination as water moves through the distribution network. Not sure what you think you're accomplishing by putting water out in the sun -- but if this is the same tap water that has chlorine in it, then exposing it to heat will only increase the likelihood of forming dangerous chlorine byproducts. By the way, any "spring water" you're buying in a bottle has also likely been treated with chlorine as part of the purification process.
Tap for drinking, Brita filtered for tea and coffee making.
We prefer to drink water from a public well connected to a natural spring.
I don't usally drink water, but I use tap water to mix up a sports drink from powder. And reuse the same bottle over and over. Only downside is that I still have the containers of powder to deal with, but it's still significantly less waste than 10 plastic bottles for the same amount of sports drink...
I use water from the dispenser from my refrigerator, and it gets filtered.