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So Fiji is the best water, right?
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I stay in Edinburgh and the water from the tap is awesome but when I was in Florida there was no danger I would drink that stuff out the tap, it smelt gross.
Bottled water, especially in crappy plastic bottles, is a huge scam and terrible for our planet. Read Bottled and Sold by Peter Gleick and open your eyes.
Fiji is bullshit. Tap water is the way to go (although I'm aware that the US is more of a developing country in that regard in many places, but filters do exist).
My German tap water is the best thing ever.
I just drink tap water. If I'm out and need to buy a bottle of water, I just buy whatever is cheapest.
Garden hose water is the best tasting imo.
Haha I remember drinking it when I was a kid.
Okay, sure. I completely agree with that. But Fiji water especially so.
Ice Mountain for big packs at home. Fiji if I'm buying individual bottle at the convenience store.
I don't even know the last time I bought bottled water, it's so ridiculous how big an industry it is. Except in Manchester, tap water in Manchester tastes like swimming pools.
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Even if you don't care about the environment, you pay more for your bottled water day-to-day than if you got a filter, or a steel water bottle that you carry with you and refill at fountains/work/gym.
In Italy, bottled water is a pretty big industry. My father was used to sell bottled mineral water so I have a pretty good "track" record. Nowadays, I'm only drinking filtered tap water (overall, in Italy tap water is pretty good).
BUT.
Even with my experience with plenty of brands since I was born, I can only discriminate across very bad water and everything else. There are some water brands that have a peculiar taste because of some characteristics in composition but otherwise there's not much difference.
Can't you get a container with a filter?
The water in Eastern Europe can vary from good to terrible, so I have a container in the fridge I just fill with water that gets filtered.
Then get an insulated water bottle (or thermos or whatever) and put ice in it? Technology is an amazing thing!
Our tap water is so heavily treated and hard it gave me kidney stones. So no tap for me. Just mainly use a filtered jug in the fridge but do buy bottles every now and then for convenience. I like all but Dasani and Aquafina. Those taste like they have been treated with shit.
Was about to post this, so good thing it was at the bottom of the page. (edit: apparently tons of people are saying the same thing, so that's good)
Seriously. You shouldn't be buying bottles of water by the pack unless you live in Flint or you're going camping or something.
I was previously firmly in the Fiji camp but sometime in the past couple years or so something changed and it doesn't taste as good anymore. Previously I also thought Aquafina was the absolute worst... Tasted like dirt. But now it's fine for what it is so who knows, maybe my tastes changed. When buying water I'm usually just getting big jugs of Ice Mountain from the grocery store.
SF gets its tap water from Hetch Hetchy reservoir which has clean Yosemite water so I drink straight from the tap :)