Stop Telling Me There’s No Reason to Drink Bottled Water

By Daniel Miessler on March 2nd, 2008: Tagged as Culture | Environment

I’m seriously tired of hearing that there is no reason to drink bottled water. Up until about a month ago I traveled throughout the United States quite a bit. As a consultant for around three years I was either driving or flying somewhere at least a couple of times a month.

This gave me ample opportunity to try and do the right thing as far as bottled water goes, i.e. to stop using it. But I couldn’t. You know why? Because the average tap water in an average place tastes like ass. You go one place and you literally taste something like sewage. You go to another place and it tastes like you’re drinking a glass of chlorine.

So yeah, if tap water everywhere tasted as good (and felt as safe) as it does in certain areas, then yes — it’d be horrible to drink bottled water. But for many like myself, we don’t drink it because it comes in a cool bottle; we drink it because it’s a known-good. We drink it because we know it went through a filter. I don’t care if it was originally tap water. I like good tap water. That’s the whole point.

If the U.S. had an infrastructure where you could pull a glass of Dasani or Smart Water out of every tap then you wouldn’t have the problem in the first place. So yeah, it’s messed up, but stop telling me there’s no legit reason to do it.:

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Anthony 10 months ago 1 point
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I have no strong feelings about bottled water. However, if you still want to give it up, you should try this: http://www.waterstraws.com/</p>
Apparently they're good for up to 40 gallons, which should be good for about a year of drinking. I've never used one, but they sound cool.

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Anthony DOnofrio 10 months ago 1 point
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actually, http://www.nitro-pak.com/productinfo.php?cP...>
that filters up to 2 microns and is on sale.

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TIMM 10 months ago 1 point
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Dude, Fiji.

-=T=-

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Jack Black 10 months ago 1 point
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'that filters up to 2 microns and is on sale.'
IWO, it can filter your dick.
Jack

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foobar 10 months ago 1 point
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40 or 50 gallons is not that much. At 1 gallon per person per day, that's not even 2 months not even close to a year. I buy reverse osmosis filtered water at my grocery store for 30 cents / gallon. Comes out to about the same cost per gallon as a lifestraw, but and is preferable than sucking on the same straw as every one else in my household.

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ncloud 10 months ago 1 point
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Daniel, I agree. Our water sucks. Even super cheap bottled water down at the local Aldis (a store that specializes in generic brand groceries) tastes infinitely better than our tap. I mean, come on -- there is only so much beer I can drink to make up for it :-)

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Anthony DOnofrio 10 months ago 1 point
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Who drinks a gallon of water a day? And if you're just doing a cost-benefit analysis, the price of these straws $15 / ~20-40 gallons far outweighs the cost of bottled water.

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cak 10 months ago 1 point
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Ok, you make a point. But you don't offer a solution. Are you at all worried about the huge waste of resources, that comes with using bottled water. That is take 5 liters of water to produce each litre of bottled water, or is this the price you pay for being a water snob?

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mike corisal 10 months ago 1 point
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Keep in mind that bottle water has less stringent requirements than tap water. After you get used to tap water, it becomes no big deal to drink it.

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Michele 10 months ago 1 point
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I filter my tap water ........ here in Detroit we supposedly have some of the best tasting tap in the country . But if you drink filtered for a while you'll see it's like drinking pool water. over clorinated. disgusting.

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