BTW your kids should be drinking tap water unless you fluoridate their teeth some other way. Or, I suppose, unless you think fluoridating teeth is a bad idea...
Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages
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Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages
#132Good news. Now they should switch to tap water and it'll also be a win for the environment. (To anticipate answers: Yes, I know, in the US water often contains large amounts of chlorine and doesn't taste that good. And in poorer countries tap water is often undrinkable. But there's no good reason to buy bottled water if your water supply is reasonable, which is true for large parts of europe at least.)
In my city the water comes straight from a natural reserve, it often actually tastes better than bottled water! A large company gets its water there as well.
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I am free to chose not to drink sugary drinks, but I can't change my current tap water, except for paying for bottled water
You could get water delivered to your home in large 5 gallon jugs. Its not quite as bad as the small bottles.
That's exactly what I do using https://pureflo.com
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In LA the water often tastes bad. I use a Brita filter which makes thing a little better but it still isn't great. I miss the water in Munich...
Just get a high quality filter. I bought an RO and love it but there are other high quality filters out there.
I've heard RO water is not that good for your health, it removes a lot of good salts and other stuff from it.
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The fact that GP is in the black while this post is downvoted is puzzling to me. Several people must have read GP "yuck @ tap water" and nodded along, and then down-voted this comment. However, if you think the USA can provide drinkable water, you'd have downvoted the "yuck" comment, because it is incorrect, and then this one as well. Or, If you agree with the "yuck" comment, then this poster is correct, and you shou…
> However, if you think the USA can provide drinkable water, you'd have downvoted the "yuck" comment, because it is incorrect, and then this one as well. Brussels sprouts are "Yuck". However, they're also perfectly edible and healthy for you. If the US started a national food program that delivered incredibly cheap and healthy food straight to your kitchen, but San Diego was stuck with brussels sprouts as their food…
All Brussels sprouts are "Yuck", however not all water is "Yuck", the question is - why if they can make water in one place be not "Yuck" - what prevents them from having a good tasting water in other places?
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$1 for enough bottled water for a month? Where did you get that number from? We were living away from our home (and water filter) for a few months and bought the cheapest bottled water we could. It was $1 per gallon. Where is this magical bottled water plant that 60 gallons of water for $1.
I'm going to concede on the particulars of how low the price was because it must have been just a killer loss leader in-store sale at walmart - the cheapest I can find now online is ~$7 for the same flat of 35 17oz bottles. I am, however, going to disagree with how much water. 2 gallons of water for a single person each day seems to be more than just excessive for drinking water. Even if I was drinking 17oz each prim…
Actually me and my wife went through approx 1 gallon per day, not 1 gallon per person, so approx 0.5 gal per day per person.
We use an RO filter, provides amazing taste.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be exact - It smells like water from a swamp. Hard to satisfy your thirst by drinking that nasty smell
If your water is literally smelly than it is either something wrong with your pipes or psychosomatic. I can't imagine that the entire city of San Diego is distributing water that has an odor. I have never had this problem in San Diego. I would suggest calling the city if this is truly a problem.
I'm guessing that water in San Diego is the absolute stalest you can get in the US. The water San Diego receives is either piped over the mountains from Arizona or comes from way upstate...after Los Angeles has their pick.
There is no doubt that it is not good water. It is so high in salt content that the avocado growers complain about using it. If all you're doing is trying to stay alive then by all means, drink up.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just get a high quality filter. I bought an RO and love it but there are other high quality filters out there.
I've heard RO water is not that good for your health, it removes a lot of good salts and other stuff from it.
Unless you are buying spring water, all bottled water and soda water is just RO water with something added back. RO water is as pure as it gets. There are many discussions about RO but if you think about it, the quantity of salts is so miniscule in water that you would get it back from food anyway. Anyway I use a remineralizer as the last step after RO just for the taste. The RO taste is a bit sharp for me.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> However, if you think the USA can provide drinkable water, you'd have downvoted the "yuck" comment, because it is incorrect, and then this one as well. Brussels sprouts are "Yuck". However, they're also perfectly edible and healthy for you. If the US started a national food program that delivered incredibly cheap and healthy food straight to your kitchen, but San Diego was stuck with brussels sprouts as their food…
All Brussels sprouts are "Yuck", however not all water is "Yuck", the question is - why if they can make water in one place be not "Yuck" - what prevents them from having a good tasting water in other places?
Different water sources, and getting the minerals/ions that cause the taste out is expensive. Mixing different sources can help diluting it, but that only works if there are different profiles in local sources.
And if water supply is done by quite localized organizations (I think that is the case in the US?) it's often politically difficult to pipe in water from other areas, even where it would be affordable.
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It's quite bad, but consumer water filtration devices are cheap and plentiful. I personally use a water filter at home and work, and carry a decent quality bottle everywhere with me, so I'm not sure why others don't go that route. I have to assume it's just another example of rampant American consumerism.
Is it? I drink tap water in the SF Bay Area. It's excellent. (Hetch Hetchy). But even in the south bay, it's quite good. San Diego water is also very drinkable, as is Los Angeles. Most recently I was in Vegas and Ohio, and in both places, while the water was not as good as it is at my house, it was perfectly fine.
I would disagree about so cal. Their water tastes bad. Not Michigan lead-contaminated bad, but SF water blows it away.