What's your favorite bottled water?

[IronWing]

I take my empty DMD bottles and fill them with tap water. Costs me only 0.045 cents per liter to be one of the beautiful people.

Bottled water is kind of like the expert of tap water. It's from out of town and dressed nice.

 

[n7]

I don't have a favorite scam.

None.

 

[tcG]

Even when it has beaver fever?

Seriously though, doesn't it commonly have a sulfur smell/taste when you get it directly from a spring? I've never drank it so I don't personally know, I've just been near a natural spring that smelt like sulfur (and people were commenting that there was a slight sulfur taste also).

Spring water straight from the source doesn't have harmful bacteria, you're thinking of river/stream water. (Or you're just joking and I have no sense of humor...) Spring water is water that has been underground for a very long time, which due to the surrounding topography, has found its way to the surface. The natural filtering process that takes place is amazing. The earth essentially acts as a natural filter, with the surface water percolating down through progressively finer layers, layers which include the ecosystem of beneficial bacteria in soil, underground fungus colonies, and eventually, extremely dense (and bacteria-free) clay.

Regarding sulfur in springs, some springs have high sulfur content and aren't particularly suitable for drinking. Sulfur can be toxic so that's something to watch out for. The spring you were at very likely had high sulfur content.

www.findaspring.com

^ Google map with user submitted locations/reviews of natural springs all over the world. I encourage people who have one in their area to take a leisurely trip out to a good one and collect some water. You might find that it's a bit different (read: superior in every way) from the water you're used to. Water is an amazing substance that we definitely haven't completely figured out (I mean, it can naturally form into a crystalline structure that stores complex information... how crazy is that?) and I tend to think that the process spring water goes through makes it special in a way that we don't fully understand.

 

[lxskllr]

(I mean, it can naturally form into a crystalline structure that stores complex information... how crazy is that?) a

Ice?

 

[IronWing]

Beaver fever?! Maybe you're joking, but spring water straight from the source doesn't have harmful bacteria. Spring water is water that has been underground for a very long time, which due to the surrounding topography, has found its way to the surface. The natural filtering process that takes place is amazing. The earth essentially acts as a natural filter, with the surface water percolating down through progressively finer layers, layers which include the ecosystem of beneficial bacteria in soil, underground fungus colonies, and eventually, extremely dense (and bacteria-free) clay.

Regarding sulfur in springs, some springs have high sulfur content and aren't particularly suitable for drinking. Sulfur can be toxic so that's something to watch out for. The spring you were at very likely had high sulfur content.

www.findaspring.com

^ Google map with user submitted locations/reviews of natural springs all over the world. I encourage people who have one in their area to take a leisurely trip out to a good one and collect some water. You might find that it's a bit different (read: superior in every way) than the water you're used to. Water is an amazing substance that we definitely haven't completely figured out (I mean, it can naturally form into a crystalline structure that stores complex information... how crazy is that?) and I tend to think that the process spring water goes through makes it special in a way that we don't fully understand.

Travel time from the Lexington, KY sewer system to Royal Spring, source of drinking water for Georgetown, KY = 30 hours. I've walked in the amazing natural filter. It looks a lot like a eight foot high colon, including the shit on the walls. Modern water treatment is a good thing.

 

[lxskllr]

On a side note, I went to a high end(read pretentious) bar/restaurant in DC a couple years ago, and I took particular pleasure in requesting "tap" when the waiter asked if I wanted "sparkling" or "still" water :^D

 

[bigrash]

They all taste the same to me.

 

[tcG]

Travel time from the Lexington, KY sewer system to Royal Spring, source of drinking water for Georgetown, KY = 30 hours. I've walked in the amazing natural filter. It looks a lot like a eight foot high colon, including the shit on the walls. Modern water treatment is a good thing.

Spring water from a good spring doesn't have bacteria problems. It just doesn't. Introduction of harmful bacteria occurs long after the part where the spring bubbles up from hundreds of feet under the ground, and is typically due to things like animal waste.

Don't argue with me on this people. Spring water is safe, and in terms of not having contaminants like toilet paper, traces of pills, chlorine, volatile chemicals, lead. et. al., it's more healthy as well.

You seem to be attempting to argue the ridiculous position that tap water, which is recycled water that contains all kinds of toxic shit and only doesn't make you acutely sick because industrial-strength antibiotics are added to it, is better than natural spring water.

Note: Some springs are polluted, not typically by bacteria, but by industrial runoff and the like. It's your responsibility to find a good one! That's why the website I linked is helpful.

On a related note, the kind of "spring" big enough to supply an entire community with fresh water isn't exactly what I'm talking about. That's more like a spring plus a lake where all the water pools, and comes with all the contaminants that a lake has. I'm talking about something more like this:

 

[IronWing]

Don't argue with me on this people.

Why not? You are wrong.

 

[lxskllr]

Spring water from a good spring doesn't have bacteria problems. It just doesn't. Introduction of harmful bacteria occurs long after the part where the spring bubbles up from hundreds of feet under the ground, and is typically due to things like animal waste.

Don't argue with me on this people. Spring water is safe, and in terms of not having contaminants like toilet paper, traces of pills, chlorine, volatile chemicals, lead. et. al., it's more healthy as well.

You seem to be attempting to argue the ridiculous position that tap water, which is recycled water that contains all kinds of toxic shit and only doesn't make you acutely sick because industrial-strength antibiotics are added to it, is better than natural spring water.

Note: Some springs are polluted, not typically by bacteria, but by industrial runoff and the like. It's your responsibility to find a good one! That's why the website I linked is helpful.

Wow. I'm not sure where to start, or if I even should :^D

 

[dainthomas]

I like the type I pour into a bottle from my tap. It all tastes the same.

this

 

[KidNiki1]

I very rarely buy bottled water, but when I do, I get Zephyrhills.

 

[Red Storm]

Well water FTW.

Out of the bottled only options, I'd say Crystal Geyser. I love that stuff.

 

[nehalem256]

Tap water that I put in my reusable water bottle.

 

[Mixolydian]

Tap.its all the same.

Uhh, no. Take well water and compare it to water from the Great Lakes. The difference is night and day.

 

[zokudu]

I like how Dasani tastes.

 

[_Rick_]

I buy Evian for water and sports, because the office is in a swamp, and the pipes are from the 80s, and the water just tastes weird, and in the gym I don't trust hygiene very much either.
At home though, the pipes in the house are barely 5 years old, and the water that comes out of them is ice-cool even in summer, and tastes delicious. It contains no visible suspensions, and only the amount of calcium carbonate seem to be slightly higher than I'd like, judging by the frequency with which I have to use acid to clean my glasses, and how often I have to change shower heads...

 

[Wyndru]

Spring water straight from the source doesn't have harmful bacteria, you're thinking of river/stream water. (Or you're just joking and I have no sense of humor...) Spring water is water that has been underground for a very long time, which due to the surrounding topography, has found its way to the surface. The natural filtering process that takes place is amazing. The earth essentially acts as a natural filter, with the surface water percolating down through progressively finer layers, layers which include the ecosystem of beneficial bacteria in soil, underground fungus colonies, and eventually, extremely dense (and bacteria-free) clay.

Regarding sulfur in springs, some springs have high sulfur content and aren't particularly suitable for drinking. Sulfur can be toxic so that's something to watch out for. The spring you were at very likely had high sulfur content.

www.findaspring.com

^ Google map with user submitted locations/reviews of natural springs all over the world. I encourage people who have one in their area to take a leisurely trip out to a good one and collect some water. You might find that it's a bit different (read: superior in every way) from the water you're used to. Water is an amazing substance that we definitely haven't completely figured out (I mean, it can naturally form into a crystalline structure that stores complex information... how crazy is that?) and I tend to think that the process spring water goes through makes it special in a way that we don't fully understand.

Thanks for that link! And yes, I was just joking about the beaver fever, I just like saying it :biggrin:

 

[SlitheryDee]

I don't have a favorite. I normally just buy whatever is closest to me at the moment I realize I need bottled water. I think I've had every kind at the grocery store by now. There's no noticeable difference at all between them.

 

[irishScott]

Favorite? Fiji. But it's overpriced as hell and not really worth the premium.

In any case I'm hardly picky. It's fucking water.

 

[cyclohexane]

It's all just H20. Your body doesn't care. Tap water.

 

[crownjules]

Filtered tap water.

 

[cyclistca]

The water that comes out of my tap. They did a test of tap water and various bottle waters in Vancouver. The tap water won.

The only time I drink bottled water is when I go to a country where it is recommended not to drink the tap water.

 

[Chaotic42]

Filtered tap water.

This. They keep adding more and more chlorine to mine, so I finally bought a filter.

 

[Udgnim]

not Arrowhead