Whenever I am in a country where its considered relatively safe to drink the tap water but here hell no might as well eat rotten food.
Tap water , do you drink it?
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Yeah. I live in Hawaii, so we have some of the nation's best tap water (no industry and plenty of natural filtration for our groundwater). Still worried about corroded pipes though since nothing metal really lasts long around here.
Meh. Back home, the water was clean and tasted alright. It tasted a hell of a lot better than most bottled water. Shoot, I could suck the water straight from the kitchen hose on a hot day and feel better. But almost everywhere else I've gone the water looks, well, not that clean. The flavor is off, and it never gets cold enough to be refreshing.
I usually won't, but it's for a reason that I hope would make sense to anybody.
More than 50% of the time using tap water in the Southwest, I could put two spoon-fulls of coffee into a cup, brew it up, and the only thing you'd be able to smell is chlorine...
That's a cup of double-strong coffee that smells like a swimming pool.
No way am I drinking that.
More than 50% of the time using tap water in the Southwest, I could put two spoon-fulls of coffee into a cup, brew it up, and the only thing you'd be able to smell is chlorine...
That's a cup of double-strong coffee that smells like a swimming pool.
No way am I drinking that.
I drink tap water although I prefer filtered water I find water from plastic bottles has a weird somewhat nasty taste to it especially if it has spent a day in the sun at some point so when I do drink bottled I usually buy the slightly more expensive glass bottles.
on a side note asking for something then refusing it because you think the quality of that something that someone has isn't to your liking is pretty rude, it's not bad for you it just has a slightly different taste because they add a chemical to it to make sure it doesn't get contaminated by something minor and it's kind of asinine to expect others to stock a more expensive seperate brand of that something for your liking, if it's such a big deal that you WON'T drink tap water then either hold your peace and don't ask for water or bring your own bottle with you.
on a side note asking for something then refusing it because you think the quality of that something that someone has isn't to your liking is pretty rude, it's not bad for you it just has a slightly different taste because they add a chemical to it to make sure it doesn't get contaminated by something minor and it's kind of asinine to expect others to stock a more expensive seperate brand of that something for your liking, if it's such a big deal that you WON'T drink tap water then either hold your peace and don't ask for water or bring your own bottle with you.
Sure I drink Tapwater. I live in Brisbane, Australia, in the Southern Suburbs, and the tap water where I live is just fine. Has no taste whatsoever.
My mother insists on boiling and filtering all the water she drinks. She claims it makes it taste better. Now, she often gets me to fill in her water bottles for her. I use the filtered water, if it is available, but sometimes there is none (someone else has taken it all). Rather than wait 40 minutes for it to pass through that ceramic filter, I just fill it from the tap. And you know what? SHE HAS NEVER NOTICED. NOT ONCE.
I strongly, STRONGLY suspect that most people who live in developed areas, if subjected to a blind taste trial of tap Vs bottled/filtered water, could not tell the difference between them. It's mostly psychological. Oh, I'm sure there are some cities and towns where the water management is so bad that you'd be crazy to drink the water - but if you live in a developed nation like Australia, Japan, Canada, the UK, Germany, Most of the US, Norway, South Korea, etc, etc, I have the feeling that your tap water is juuuuust fine, and that you probably couldn't tell the difference between tap and bottled if someone removed the label.
My mother insists on boiling and filtering all the water she drinks. She claims it makes it taste better. Now, she often gets me to fill in her water bottles for her. I use the filtered water, if it is available, but sometimes there is none (someone else has taken it all). Rather than wait 40 minutes for it to pass through that ceramic filter, I just fill it from the tap. And you know what? SHE HAS NEVER NOTICED. NOT ONCE.
I strongly, STRONGLY suspect that most people who live in developed areas, if subjected to a blind taste trial of tap Vs bottled/filtered water, could not tell the difference between them. It's mostly psychological. Oh, I'm sure there are some cities and towns where the water management is so bad that you'd be crazy to drink the water - but if you live in a developed nation like Australia, Japan, Canada, the UK, Germany, Most of the US, Norway, South Korea, etc, etc, I have the feeling that your tap water is juuuuust fine, and that you probably couldn't tell the difference between tap and bottled if someone removed the label.
Well given that I live in Scotland, where the the water here is cheaper and better tasting then the rest of the UK. Yes, I do.
What else am I going to do? Drink bottled water?
What else am I going to do? Drink bottled water?
We have pretty good water around where I live. I tend to drink tap water at restaurants but not at home. At home I go with the flavored stuff as it tastes great and if it happens to be carbonated, it usually lowers my urge for a soda. I should get a filtered pitcher so I can keep regular water nice and cold. I'd be more likely to drink at home then. Hell, it might even save me some money.
Hey, OP? That bottled water? It's tap water put in a bottle.
Read the back. Source: Public Water Supply.
Also, you sound a little spoiled to answer your question.
Read the back. Source: Public Water Supply.
Also, you sound a little spoiled to answer your question.
I'll drink it, but I usually filter it first. I have yet to find a city with water that doesn't taste like chemicals, and well water is a crap shoot. My grandparents had delicious well water. My parents, who live right next door and are drawing their water theoretically from the same part of the aquifer, not so much. So like I said, home filtration is a great thing 
I do drink the tap water here in Scotland. Never done me wrong either.
It tastes good as well, then again, how good can water taste? Water is water.
It tastes good as well, then again, how good can water taste? Water is water.
the difference is that if you asked for a beer then refused it because you only drink expensive beer and then didn't drink anything at all the entire time you were there then it gets rude it's like your calling them a bad host because they don't spend the extra money in order to satisfy your needs.krazykidd said:
I drink tap water pretty much exclusively. It's no different at all from the bottled stuff. In fact, just recently Dasani and Aquafina had to put on their labels that their "pristine spring fed source" is in fact just a public waterway. The only exception to this rule is if I am near the beach because I find it horrifically salty and generally not very good.
Well I live in Canada, particularly the province with the best water system in the country. I can't tell any difference between that and brita-filtered, because there's very little to change.
Or between that and bottled water, because there is no change.
So this question now boils down to location more then preferences.
Which is somehow even more boring ..
Or between that and bottled water, because there is no change.
So this question now boils down to location more then preferences.
Which is somehow even more boring ..