The bottled water Poll

[undeterred]

Where do you stand on bottled water.

[CreekDog]

1. no option for boiling bottled water?

:wtf: :banghead: :rant:

[undeterred]

4. ...

:spank: :hurts: I considered it as an option but I threw it away.

[Symarip]

2. It's free

It comes out of a faucet located 20 feet from just about every place my physical body is. At that moment. At all times.

Why do I need to drive to a store and buy more of it in a plastic container?

[ThomCat]

3. I filter tap water at home and at work and drink that.

Why destroy the environment and pay huge amounts of money to drink filtered tap water out of plastic bottles? :shrug:

[DarkTirade]

5. I'll buy one bottle and then refill it again and again.

[huskerlaw]

6. I only drink bottled water

Yes, I know it's an environmental nightmare, but I'm not drinking LA tap water. Heeelllll no. Plus, our pipes are rusty, so unless we let the water run until it's clear, it's got a nasty rust-colored tint to it. Even after being filtered through a Pur filter. Gross...and not environmentally sound.

Do I get some points for buying the large containers of bottled water and using that to refill the bottles? Oh, and there's a homeless guy in the neighborhood that collects/recycles the used bottles and lives off the proceeds, so that makes me feel better about it too.

[KitchenWitch]

7. We use bottled water when we are on the run mostly.

We mostly drink HEAVILY FILTERED tap water (have you ever TASTED OC water??? :puke: ).

I also have 4 cases of bottled water set aside as an emergency (earthquake) stash, in case our already bad water is compromised further. In that way, I am SUCH a Californian.

[Kutjara]

8. Same here. I have a Brita filter on the kitchen sink tap...

...and a case of bottled water in the bedroom closet (along with a few boxes of breakfast bars), for when society collapses and we all revert to savagery.

[Tektonik]

12. one of us one of us one of us

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

18. I am still a Minnesotan

I just happen to live in California, and have adopted some California habits!

:evilgrin:

[csziggy]

9. I'm lucky enough to have excellent well water

But when I am traveling or in town I sometimes buy bottled water. The bottles go in our recycling, but I still feel guilty.

[JackBeck]

10. We both use Nalgene bottles for our water.

Got a Britta at home and we fill our bottles in the morning and when we go to the gym.

[NewEnglandGirl]

11. I use Brita too

and put the water into glass screw top bottles for in the car.

[Withywindle]

13. What's with that "in another country" option?

In the last 4 years I've been to Brazil, Canada, Thailand, and Malaysia, and I didn't buy any bottled water, or really change much of anything about my eating or drinking habits (except I ate more street vendor food).

Was I supposed to get sick or something? :shrug:


I think germ freaks wind up crippling their own immune systems through overprotection.

[undeterred]

16. When I went to Brazil

the tour guide told us never to drink the water. :shrug:

[Fox Mulder]

14. I absolutely hate it, but...

my water is too salty to drink, so I have to drink bottled water.

I recycle the bottles though, for what it's worth.

[Heidi]

15. Our tap water is BLECH. We mostly drink San Pellegrino.

:hi:

[OhioChick]

17. For myself...

I filter the tap water....tastes awful coming from Lake Erie. I buy bottled water (under the advice of an immunologist) for one of my kids due to health problems.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. i just thank god for my artisean well on top of the catskill mountains ....

which is surrounded by Forever Wild State land and also protected NYC Watershed land

[Critters2]

20. I've bought several water bottles at resale shops

(they practically give 'em away!) and fill those with filtered water. I have a bottle of water with me almost all the time.

[graywarrior]

21. It's one of the main reasons I left Florida for NH

Most parts of northern NH has the best water.

[Redstone]

23. They sure do. Even my kid noticed the difference in Lancaster. It's colder, too,

than in many other places...pure ambrosia on a hot summer day.

Redstone

[Redstone]

22. If people buy it in a vending machine because they don't like soda, that's one thing. But if

they're sipping away at it all day in their house or office, they're being wasteful and socially (not to mention environmentally) irresponsible.

An exception is also granted for people who live where the tap water is brackish or polluted, but only if they buy it in BIG bottles and recycle them.

And speaking of "sipping away," when did we become a society where everyone (OK, it just SEEMS like everyone) can't stand to go five minutes without sip, sip, sipping away at their little bottles of water? What the hell ever happened to "I'm thirsty; I think I'll go drink a glass of water," doing so, then getting back to work for an hour?

Redstone

[femmocrat]

24. Other..... Convenience!

I can't leave the classroom to go out and get a drink, so I have a bottle of water with me. So sue me!

I also take one of the little bottles on my morning walk. It's just convenient.

[Midlodemocrat]

25. I buy bottled water for my kids' lunches.

The new high school isn't designed very well, and most of the kids never use their lockers, so a reusable bottle/lunch bag is impractical.

The school does recycle the bottles, though, so that's something.

[flvegan]

26. I wash my car with bottled water.

Once a week.

:o

[DS1]

27. I had my new upstairs neighbor pegged as douchebag even before I saw him buying

a case of bottled water.

Goddamn douchebag.

[TommyO]

28. There's no option for:

I drink filtered tap water at home, but will occasionally have bottled water when traveling.

[redqueen]

29. I prefer filtered tap water.

[Carnea]

30. Need Option: I buy bottled water but only for the Cats. nt

[SallyMander]

31. An important comment on this topic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqR7zis99I