Tap water , do you drink it?

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'm too poor to NOT drink tap water.

This water is pretty good. I've had terrible water before.

 

[Musette]

It entirely depends on where I am. The first time I ever really bothered to drink tap water was when I was studying in Austria over the summer. Their tap water comes from the alps, so it's the same water that they bottle up and sell for obnoxious prices, so there was literally no reason not to drink from the tap. However, I tried drinking tap water in Orlando, and it tasted awful (it also came out with a yellow tint, which I know does not necessarily mean that the water is contaminated or anything, but it definitely makes it seem less trustworthy).

 

[Amir Kondori]

Man, if you were to go back and tell people in the eighties that people would pay money for bottles of water they laugh at you. Now we have people so screwed up in the head they won't even drink tap water, tap water that in some cases is cleaner then the bottled water! Or in other cases that is literally coming from the same source as bottled water!

So OP, I have to ask, is there an actual rational reason behind you not drinking tap water, or is this some kind of superstitious thing?

 

[HannesPascal]

When I am at home, I drink it often, though we have a Reverse Osmosis System (which isn't even a thing - osmosis is the permeation of water through a membrane, how does one reverse osmosis? Isn't going the other way still just osmosis?)

Osmosis is the spontaneous permeation of water through a membrane to equilibrate the concentration (actually the activity) difference between to different solutions, the pressure that you need to apply to the solution with lower concentration of water (higher concentration of other stuff) to stop water from permeating through the membrane is called the osmotic pressure. Reverse osmosis is the exact opposite, you apply pressure greater than the osmotic pressure to make water permeating from low concentration of water to high concentration of water, hence its called reverse osmosis.

OP
Yes I drink tap water, because the tap water tastes good. Only reason I would drink bottle water is because I want it carbonated. I don't think non-carbonated bottle water is very common in Sweden.

 

[M920CAIN]

It's the only kind of water I can afford, for now, so yes, I drink it... it tastes like shit and it's half sand, but it has electrolytes and those are good for you. The reason my IQ has dropped by 150 points is probably because of the tap water so as CAPTCHA says: fill it up!

 

[Tradjus]

I live up in Washington State, we have icewater aquifers and the tap water is good quality, so it's -all- I drink.
Although I actually have a crazy ex-stepdad who constantly berates me about it, telling me I'm drinking away my brain cells, even though while drinking this supposedly brain cell eating water my entire life, I still managed to get farther in schooling than his dumb ass ever did! xD

 

[chuckdm]

I just don't drink water. Then I don't have to worry about it.

The way I see it, around 80% to 90% of my fluid intake is either coffee or tea (or lately, Snapple Tea+Lemonade which is like the nectar of the damn gods, and only 10 calories. Not a paid person I swear, that shit is just good. Arizona isn't bad either. Anyway...)

That Tea and/or Coffee is itself made up of nearly 90% H20. Very little of it actually bonds with any of the other chamicals - caffeine, sugar, or the coffee/tea itself - so most of what I'm drinking is water already. Why the fuck would I ever want to drink unflavored water, when I can drink coffee and ENJOY it, and then just drink 10% more of it to make up the difference?

To me, this is crazy. I drink a coke maybe once a month. Almost all I drink is coffee and tea, and they are almost entirely water. What the hell do I gain from drinking straight up water???

That said, I make all my coffee with tap water because we live on a river-fed lake and so the water source is about a mile away and constantly moving (i.e. very clean). But we have an office in town (around 30 miles from here) and I swear I could probably light that stuff on fire. It's from an aquifer, but nearly 40% of it is recycled now, so it tastes like over-treated ass.

Needless to say, at the office, I drink coffee for the same reason people drank mead centuries ago - it was considerably less likely to outright kill them than plain water.

But up here? The water is fine, it just seems insane NOT to make coffee or tea with it instead.

 

[Foolery]

Absolutely, the water quality here is great. When I was growing up we used to have to haul water where I lived. So I appreciate taps quite a bit.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Brita filtered water so it's cold when I want it. I prefer the taste of filtered water over tap, but I don't pay for bottled water at all. I always keep a refillable bottle with me.

At work we have a water cooler because our building is so old the water's always brown and it's not really safe to drink.

 

[gewuerzgurke]

I'm from Germany where you can drink tap water any time, so I used to do that. But now I live in Korea, and it's not advised to drink the tap water here, so I buy bottled water. But what confuses me is wether I can use the tap water for cooking or not. Like if i boil rice for example? I use bottled water right now, which seems like a wate, but I'm still not sure if I can safely use tap water...

 

[briankoontz]

Bottled water typically comes from the same sources as tap water, that's what you're buying. However, some unfortunate people even in rich countries have bad tap water, so in their cases bottled water is usually healthier.

In poor countries tap water frequently presents health problems for drinkers, but of course these are the very same countries where the people are too poor to afford bottled water.

Bottled water is a travesty in the first place, since corporations make billions of dollars off what should be OUR property in the first place, and the logical next step is for corporations to sell us the air which we breathe.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

When I have to, yeah I do. I'm more used to filtered though. But at the same time, I don't complain about it when I have to.

 

[ScorpSt]

I definitely prefer to drink tap water, as long as it's cold (like ice cold). To me, bottled water tastes like plastic. To be fair though, I have been to places where I'd rather have that plasticy bottled water than the local tap water. I'm lucky to live in a city that has it's own, unpolluted reservoir. Chicago tap water also tastes really good.

 

[Woodsey]

Bottled is a waste of plastic and from a tap anyway.

 

[TheSYLOH]

Well does filtered water count as tap water?
Cause that's what I drink.
I can really taste the calcium in Chicago's water.
Its really hard water and I don't like it.

 

[Spud of Doom]

YES I drink tap water, and consider bottled water a waste of money in most circumstances.
YES tap water is considered good in almost all areas within my country (New Zealand)

 

[Antari]

My friends find me weird . Everytime i go to their homes and ask for somethinf to drink they always say water . Now while i have nothing against water in general, i will never ever drink tap water ( except in extreme cases obviously ). They say i'm difficult , especially since the tap water where i live ( montreal , Quebec )is apparently of pretty good quality . Despite that , i always prefered bottled water , than that from the tap .

So my question to you escapists is : Do you drink tap water?

And as a bonus question: Is there tap water where you love considered good

Yes I drink tap water, because I've worked in water purification systems within Canada. They are the best out there. Bottled water is nearly carcinogenic if its been out in the sun for any real amount of time. Keep drinking that plastic!

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Chemist here.

Bottled water is literally just tap water from somewhere else, processed with the same standards (or LOWER standards, since municipal water has to obey both state and federal regulations and bottled just has generic, loose FDA screenings), put in a bottle, and driven a few hundred miles for no reason.

In other words, you're drinking literally exactly the same stuff, you're just arbitrarily burning something like a quart of gasoline and a few ounces of coal and producing a few ounces of kinda-but-not-really recyclable polymer waste per gallon of water for no reason.

The only reason to drink bottled water is if you're fine with tap water but also hate the environment and willing to go out of your way and spend extra money JUST to damage the environment, for no actual benefit to yourself.

(Above assumes you live in the modern first world... but frankly, if you're in central Africa or Mexico or something, don't drink bottled water there either, drink weak beer or pasteurized juice or something else you know is sterilized as a matter of standard processing. The "just tap water from somewhere else" rule applies there, too.)

Oh come on, the guy ABOVE me ninja'd me?
Well damn..
Yeah, I drink tap water, seeing as I dislike sparkling water and I don'T get why I should shell out money for tap water from somewhere else.
The bottle really isn't worth that much...

 

[Eiv]

I live in Scotland, the water from the tap is perfect. Bottled water is a con unless you live in hard water areas.

 

[Pessimismus]

The tap water where I'm from is actually pretty darn good and tastes about as good as any store bought stuff I ever had so yes, I certainly do. Then again, I'm from the Netherlands and I don't think there are any places where the water is not good over here, the main difference between areas here is the amount of calcium in the water.