[Specop_007]

So, tap or bottled/filtered? Please respond with
1 - tap
2 - bottled / filtered

2 for me, I live in the city. When at home its a 1. So, I like both number 1 and number 2, depending where I'm sitting.

[Chicagoan]

To drink, tap water is better for the environment. It does not have to be transported very far, at least where I live, and is piped right to your house. If you do not like the taste, you can buy filters to take out all the junk.

If you want to store water, bottled is the best bet because is in an airtight container. No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to prevent bacteria from entering a container. If you are planning to store tap water, you will need to decontaminate it with chlorine (don't overdo it). And then you will need to filter out the chlorine.

[Specop_007]

Yeah, we use a water filter. Brita. Works really well. City water...ick.... Back home though it has to be tap water. I really like the taste of good ole form the aquifer tap water. This city stuff though is for the birds.

I actually have a manilla folder that I print out relevent survival/emergency information. Not books or anything, but just little tidbits of info I might at some point need. One such article in there is using chlorine for water purification. I also have some things like rudimentary first aid in there, crop growing etc etc. I also have books on the subjects, I just use the manilla folder as something of a quick reference. Here sometime in the future I'm going to take some time and laminate some stuff and organize it then put it in a 3 ring binder. Keep it as a handy reference for whatever. And since its laminated, time wont effect it. Niether will my kids Kool Aid.

[jato]

1 - tap

...because it's cheap!

[lotrfan55345]

I drink from my fridge dispenser. I dont know for sure but I think it is just chilled filtered tap water.

[gwmss15]

1. tap water
in melbourne its as clean as bottled water as most people just fill up plastic bottles with tap water anyway and drink it

[Freud]

bottled water whenever possible right now... the tap water has larger trace amounts of arsenic in it right now from leaching.

But in a pinch I drink it... with a frown.

[lowem]

Tap water.

And Singaporeans even drink our own recycled piss. I kid you not. It's called Newater, and it's already being pumped into the reservoirs to give it a "good mix". Some kind of membrane filtration technology.

The rest of the world must have been having a great time laughing their a** off ...

[duff_beer_dragon]

Tap water is poison, the water is dead.

That chlorine stuff that gets put into swimming pools as a disinfectant, is added to the water over here.

It's not about keeping it clean and pure, it's just about poisoning people and biology in general being poisoned.

If you doubt this, consider that lysergic acid diethyl amide is destroyed by chlorine - you may think, if you are a slave-mind that is, well drugs like LSD are bad anyway so shouldn't that be a good thing for it to be destroyed?
No - because it's got the same kinds of structures as your very important brain chemical neurotransmitters.

Water out the tap destroys my skin cells, a clear indication it's not good for you is if it f*cks your skin up, apart from it's sh*t taste and terrible smell.

I've drank all kinds of spring waters, including from Alps at source, and believe me - I know what water should be like. Real water looks, tastes, feels, and smells way different from any water I've had out of a tap. And - the water at home here is better than the tap water in England, or in towns and cities I've been to in Europe - those waters are even worse and even more disease carrying.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lowem', 'T')ap water.

And Singaporeans even drink our own recycled piss. I kid you not. It's called Newater, and it's already being pumped into the reservoirs to give it a "good mix". Some kind of membrane filtration technology.

The rest of the world must have been having a great time laughing their a** off ...

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('duff_beer_dragon', '
')If you doubt this, consider that lysergic acid diethyl amide is destroyed by chlorine - you may think, if you are a slave-mind that is, well drugs like LSD are bad anyway so shouldn't that be a good thing for it to be destroyed?
No - because it's got the same kinds of structures as your very important brain chemical neurotransmitters.

[born2respawn]

Tap water always - paying for bottled strikes me as mad when I've got a perfectly good tap I can drink from, it ain't alpine spring pure by a long way, they flouridate the water in my area, but that doesn't worry me: I've not had a problem in 20 years.

[Licho]

Since bottled water is actually filled from taps (for example coca-cola does it in London , I choose tap water..

[Whitecrab]

Duff, they add a little chlorine as a safeguard, to make sure it doesn't get infected on it's way through the pipes to you. It's a tradeoff. The small level of chlorine they add has a tiny, almost negligible effect, but it makes sure* that there won't be any bacteria in the water you're drinking. It's a valid trade-off.


*Not 100% sure, because life's not perfect.

[RIPSmithianEconomics]

For water storage, use glass bottles. Plastic oxidizes water, making it taste awful. Glass bottles can also be used to wack someone over the head, and make a more exciting game of spin the bottle.

[dhickerson]

I perfer tap, my wife perfers bottled.

I perfer tap mainly because I'm already paying my town to keep the water running and the amount I drink has a negligable effect on the monthly fee, whereas my wife is convinced that the el-cheapo bottled water that we buy (aparently it is Cincinnati municipal water) tastes better and filtered better. I will agree that it taste better but I'm not convinced that Cincinnati has better water than our little town 100 miles north of it...

[Terran]

I'd perfer tap, but nothing is better than putting tap water into a 1 gallon bottle and cooling it to 40*F in your fridge. The drink is really refreshing, and cold. It makes a great drink on hot summer days.

[frankthetank]

You can get some 30000 year old water here

http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME= ... 89c01ca7bf

I'd take a bottle of that anytime...

[manu]

Plutonium in the drinking water in Sante Fe. Who needs to worry about flouride.

[gnm]

Builds character! Besides it helps cover the arsenic taste....


Better test your well water too. I know a guy who had calcium fluoride levels so high they were considered dangerous. And that was naturally occurring! Lots of naturally occurring nastiness in NM water without this to worry about too...

Oh, is there a link?

-G