Official Bottled Water & Drinking Water-Related Thread

  On 7/26/2013 at 9:04 PM, spratters said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 7:06 PM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 6:59 PM, spratters said:

If I had to choose it'd be Buxton. Then Malvern then probably Highland Spring. My tap water tastes quite bad so I don't fill bottles up with it and I don't want a Brita because it takes up beer room in the fridge. I especially like having it next to me when I wake in the night with a dry throat.

 

At work I just refill the same bottle from the tap over and over. It's an old Kirkland Signature(Costco) bottle and the label has literally rubbed down to pure white. Should really replace it.

 

you should post a pic of it!

 

 

Tell you what, on Monday I'll get one. Until them here's one I have with me that hasn't rubbed

 

Hope you like it

 

oooh cute. im digging the inner fog and sweat. very funky. thanks for posting!

  On 7/26/2013 at 8:28 AM, Sprillian said:

Tap water is pretty rough, especially if you're in a hard water area. But it's free.

Until recently I was adding sliced fresh lemons to it to improve the taste, until my dad kindly informed me that would destroy the enamel on my teeth.

Use cucumber. It works almost as well, and it is completely safe.

Personally, I don't really believe this "destroying enamel business". I've eaten straight lemons, limes, pickles, candy, whatever my entire life, and never had a single cavity. I do brush and floss regularly though. I also use h2o2 as mouthwash and supposedly that also has a teeth softening effect, but I haven't encountered it. Some people have weak teeth though so maybe you are genetically predisposed to teeth issues.

  On 7/26/2013 at 9:14 AM, keltoi said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 1:12 AM, isaki said:

 

perfectly puts across my stance on this. thankfully scotland has nice water. [wah-ter - 't' is silent]

  On 7/26/2013 at 4:09 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 3:51 AM, eugene said:

yeah this is bullshit, unless you're living in some post-colonial third world shithole soon to be dominated by multinational corporations chances are your tap water is just fine

 

Not quite. You should filter your tap water even if it is "just fine".

 

 

why?

 

Cause it will still have lots of shit in it that using a basic filter will help to remove. Just because something doesn't kill you immediately doesn't mean that a lasting exposure is going have zero effect on your health long term. It is all about minimizing the bad shit as best you can.

  On 7/27/2013 at 12:05 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 9:14 AM, keltoi said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 1:12 AM, isaki said:

 

perfectly puts across my stance on this. thankfully scotland has nice water. [wah-ter - 't' is silent]

  On 7/26/2013 at 4:09 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

 

  On 7/26/2013 at 3:51 AM, eugene said:

yeah this is bullshit, unless you're living in some post-colonial third world shithole soon to be dominated by multinational corporations chances are your tap water is just fine

 

Not quite. You should filter your tap water even if it is "just fine".

 

 

why?

 

 

Cause it will still have lots of shit in it that using a basic filter will help to remove. Just because something doesn't kill you immediately doesn't mean that a lasting exposure is going have zero effect on your health long term. It is all about minimizing the bad shit as best you can.

 

some tap water is pretty fucking pure.

Yeah, definitely some tap water is very good stuff, but I still think that filtering it one more time can only have a positive result.

I microwave my tap water before drinking it.

i remember the last time i visited my dad's place in framingham, ma, we drank water straight from the tap and it was so clean and ice cold.

  On 7/27/2013 at 4:25 AM, Friendly Foil said:

I microwave my tap water before drinking it.

ya i do that too, all the time. it adds a special sort of metallic flavor to the water, kinda brings out the flavor... one of my favorite things to do is to take water from the tap, boil it in the microwave for just about 15 seconds so it's like barely luke warm... then put it in the fridge for an hour, leave it out for 30 minutes, then freeze it.. the result will, if done right, the BEST ICE CUBES YOU HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED. Hands down.

the tap water here is lovely so i just go for that. having been to london through i dont know how people even handle that shit, the tap water there actually seems to make you thirstier, repulsive stuff.

>in france, romanian bottled water brands are very highly priced and well regarded

>in romania, french bottled water brands are very highly priced and well regarded
>water is free by default

>fuck the system

Tap Water Master Race

In Egypt it was all about Nestle Pure Life, cuz they have a monopoly over there, but it's just nonsense water (have to drink bottled water there, cuz the direct tap will make you shit in your pants in your face). Volvic is quality, very energetically and minerally non-reactional in nature, leaving no residue, tested amongst dozens of other waters, very pure and Earth/human in-tuned amongst consumer-level water. I bought some arctic deep sea water or someshit in Hawaii, which was like $7 for a small bottle, and that shit was crazy. It was so smooth, it was almost creamy, yet the transparency almost filled me with light. Made me want to chug it. I was impressed that water could taste so good. Qualities that I don't like in drinking water (besides shit like unnecessary metals and chemicals) are bite and dryness. Natural sources/springs tend to be very smooth, so I'm guessing that's how water is supposed to taste-- or at least that preference is built into my cavehuman DNA.

  On 7/27/2013 at 6:11 AM, Lane Visitor said:

i remember the last time i visited my dad's place in framingham, ma, we drank water straight from the tap and it was so clean and ice cold.

Holy shit, I live pretty close to your pops. Ashland here.

  On 7/30/2013 at 6:29 AM, peace 7 said:

In Egypt it was all about Nestle Pure Life, cuz they have a monopoly over there, but it's just nonsense water (have to drink bottled water there, cuz the direct tap will make you shit in your pants in your face). Volvic is quality, very energetically and minerally non-reactional in nature, leaving no residue, tested amongst dozens of other waters, very pure and Earth/human in-tuned amongst consumer-level water. I bought some arctic deep sea water or someshit in Hawaii, which was like $7 for a small bottle, and that shit was crazy. It was so smooth, it was almost creamy, yet the transparency almost filled me with light. Made me want to chug it. I was impressed that water could taste so good. Qualities that I don't like in drinking water (besides shit like unnecessary metals and chemicals) are bite and dryness. Natural sources/springs tend to be very smooth, so I'm guessing that's how water is supposed to taste-- or at least that preference is built into my cavehuman DNA.

Oh no don't buy Nestle. Everyone knows that their water is made from the tears collected from women and children in third world countries.

And peepee. They use unfiltered peepee.

As I've stated before at some point, I tend to drink ridiculous amounts of Water over the day, I don't buy the water in the store, either, probably couldn't even afford it at this point, and I'm not even bothering using drinking glasses...

I use one of these, fill it up with tap-water (quality is pretty good in my area) and keep it near me most of the time, even when I go out sometimes, I bring this thing on my bicycle. I'm known as "the guy with that big-ass canister" at university, which is a fun nickname, actually. Although, looking back now, I think I preferred the times I was known as "the guy with the large penis", but things change.

I've lived in NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles and have had a lot of bottled water, in my day.

It seems like there are some brands that only get distributed in certain regions.

Deer Park and Arrowhead are a couple good ones and but pound for pound, I think my favorite tasting agua is Poland Spring.

You can't fuck with water from Maine.

I swam in a lake up there at a friend's house once and my friend told me that even the lake water was so clean that I could drink it while I was swimming. I actually tried it out and it tasted like bottled water. That shit is amazing.

  On 7/30/2013 at 10:46 AM, Candiru said:

 

  On 7/27/2013 at 6:11 AM, Lane Visitor said:

i remember the last time i visited my dad's place in framingham, ma, we drank water straight from the tap and it was so clean and ice cold.

 

Holy shit, I live pretty close to your pops. Ashland here.

 

Oh shit! Haha, that's awesome.. Never been to Ashland, but heard of it (: Cheers! Good tap water over there?

Do you people only drink still water? Gerolsteiner and Apollinaris are good sparkling brands. Brita+Nalgene is good enough for still water.

in the UK the bottled waters most freely available are:

Volvic

Evian

Highland Spring

Buxton
Perrier

Various own-brand supermarket varieties, usually named after a spring in Scotland or Wales and bottled at source.

Hardly ever see big brand water like Coca-Cola or Nestle or whatever...not in the supermarkets I go to anyway. If I buy water, I usually go with a big 5L bottle of own-brand stuff - usually like £1.05 for 5 litres.

Own brand 9 times out of 10. Cheaper and tastes fine.

Don't like sparkling water.

  On 7/30/2013 at 6:05 PM, 2WV said:

 

Hardly ever see big brand water like Coca-Cola or Nestle or whatever...not in the supermarkets I go to anyway. If I buy water, I usually go with a big 5L bottle of own-brand stuff - usually like £1.05 for 5 litres.

The coca-cola and nestle logos are on the bottles, just smaller and hidden away. Dunno if they bring us any of your list mind.

A friend gave me some cheap Costco sparkling water. It was almost as good as Perrier or some other expensive shit and costs next to nothing in comparison.

bottled water is such a fucking scam.

I happen to like carbonated water however. So when I'm feeling like losing a couple bucks my preference is San Pellegrino. At home I'm cheap and drink tap water (unfiltered) and sometimes low sodium cheap club soda!

I've never tried sparkling water =(