Tap water is making a comeback

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by OTW

The 5 cents a bottle is good incentive, but those centers are so spread out that I usually end up spending the money I make on gas, anyway.

Iowa has had the deposit for ages (as far as I can remember). The nice thing is quite a few stores will take back the cans/bottles here. Almost all grocery stores, Target, Wal-Mart, plus a few standalone redemption centers will take them. We have two big garbage bins we toss the aluminum/plastic into and take them in every few months or so. We can sometimes end up with $15-20 refund.

I grew up drinking well water, so that's what I really prefer. Our tap water is pretty good, though. We have a Brita, but that took up too much room in the refrigerator. I wouldn't be opposed to one that attaches to the tap, though, especially if we move out to the country.

[Blacksocialite]

My dentist informed me that I should start drinking tap water again because he discovered two pinhead sized cavities in my back teeth.

http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/bottledh2o.asp

My city was apparently one of the first to have fluoride in its tap water. I drink the tap water (sometimes with a filter) and I've lived to tell about it.

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

That's kind of an interesting issue really, the environmental cost of not recycling vs. the costs related to recycling, maybe more so because you are in Hawaii. Do they ship the crap to the mainland to be recycled or do you have that kind of manufacturing and recycling there. (I apologize for my dumbness on this point.)

I know of one in Oahu (up the hill from my house, actually) and a new on one the Big Island, but unfortunately I don't know too much about them, so I'm just as clueless!

I also forgot to add that a lot of elementary schools have recycling drives where people can take in their recyclables to the schools and the kids get to keep the money. Ideally I'd like to get my money back, but sometimes it's just easier to help the kids and the environment at the same time!

[Munchkin03]

I guess for some of us, tap water never really went out of style.

Growing up where I did, where the water supply was fluoridated, it was cool to drink tap water. Now, I only drink bottled water out of convenience, like if I'm traveling, or I'm headed to the gym. I have a Brita pitcher at home, so that helps.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by OTW

I know of one in Oahu (up the hill from my house, actually) and a new on one the Big Island, but unfortunately I don't know too much about them, so I'm just as clueless!

I also forgot to add that a lot of elementary schools have recycling drives where people can take in their recyclables to the schools and the kids get to keep the money. Ideally I'd like to get my money back, but sometimes it's just easier to help the kids and the environment at the same time!

If you have the ability to actually recycle out there back to the product stage then it totally makes sense no matter who is getting the money, but at the point you're shipping the recyclables to California on a diesel engine ship, maybe it really makes more sense to make a new reef of recycled Fiji bottles and Spam cans, JK.

[Kevlar281]

I’ve always been a tap water person. I recently gave up drinking cokes and its summer time in Houston so my tap water intake has gone way up.

I know that fuel crisis has hit everyone. Some harder then others but I think a positive to come out of it is that people have re-evaluated their consumer disposable product lifestyle.

[srmom]

I love the tap water in my city and always have. When I travel, I can't stand to drink the water, it doesn't have the same chemicals as the water back home.

I hate to think what all I'm ingesting, but I like the taste!

Kevlar, I'm in Houston too, I think the water tastes wonderful!!!

[bluefish81]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

"They're not walking in and spending a dollar plus for a 20-ounce bottle of water," said beverage analyst William Pecoriello at Morgan Stanley. Flavored and "enhanced" waters like vitamin drinks are also eating into plain bottled water's market share.

Flavored water is typically the only type of bottled water that I buy anymore unless I'm dying of thirst. I drink a LOT of water in a day. My company was either trying to promote being eco-friendly or being healthy when it gave us 20 ounce water bottles earlier this year. I keep a Brita pitcher in the fridge at home.

[sjsoffer]

When I lived in a small town, I drank tap water all the time. We had our own well.
I don't know if you know anything about Springfield water, but it's notoriously bad. When I had mono, I couldn't even drink it, and it was that or nothing! The chlorine levels in the water eat holes in my mouth, just like when I have too much citrus. I DON'T need to be in pain from water!

Ranting aside, I get cheap bottled water, refill the bottles (we have a britta filter) and wash them until they're icky.

[tld221]

man, tap water has always been the jam!

i can't say ive had the opportunity to drink other state's water, and actually remember it. but i know in NC (and some other states ive been to, i wanna say PA?) the water has a smell. its not like NYC water but it has a smell.

ETA: yes, it was FL! their water smelled man. even when i was in the shower.

[PhiGam]

I agree about well water though... it actually tastes good.

[PeppyGPhiB]

I drink the tap water here. When it's refrigerated I can't even tell the difference between tap and bottled. But when I was in college in Calif. a lot of the students had water coolers in our rooms because the water down there has so much chlorine in it that you can even smell it!

[RaggedyAnn]

I am really lucky to have my own well. I think the water tastes better than I've ever had. The house where I grew up however, it is worse than horrible. True story...Hubbie took a drink from the tap and actually spit it out. I forgot to warn him.

[cheerfulgreek]

Water from the sink? Yuck. I wouldn't even give my cat tap water. I still would rather drink bottled water. Take a glass and fill it with tap water and look at all the particles floating around in it. Bottled water is so clear.

[summer_gphib]

We have filtered water from our fridge and a Britta pitcher, so that works for us. I will buy bottled water when I'm on road trips, but I bought hubby a cool aluminum refillable bottle with a bunch of camping stuff, so I think we'll use that more. :-)