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Have a favorite bottled water and if so which and why.
I love Fiji water.
If you have a favorite list it because I'd love to try it if I haven't already.
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Wow. We should drink water from a south Pacific island? We should endorse this most sensible use of a limited resource, oil (imported oil), to both make the bottles and ship them to your supermarket?
Because the marketing of Fiji water is accurate?
My favorite water comes from the tap. We have pretty good municipal water in NYC, and a city government that has for decades understood the importance of providing it.
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I love that Hackensack, New Jersey, water in Aquafina.
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Futokan. Icebergs millions of years old, from a time before pollution existed. Hell, man didn't even exist. $17/12oz.
Bwahaha!
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I always drink filtered water as Sydney water has a strange taste to it.
When I can afford it I like Badoit
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Big fan of the tap water in Melbourne. I'll buy bottled water if I'm out and about though (and haven't brought a bottle with me, filled with tap water) - public drink taps aren't nearly as common over here as in the US.
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Originally Posted by Timo 
My favorite water comes from the tap. We have pretty good municipal water in NYC, and a city government that has for decades understood the importance of providing it.
I was going to write the same thing. Clean water that tastes good coming from the tap? It's one of the best acheivements of our modern society. And if I had to I'd use one of those Brita type filters.
Even when I lived in France, a country with lots of great bottled water (can I get a what what for Badoit and Vittel?), I drank mostly from the tap.
Easy access to potable water is one of those things we take most for granted in the developed world.
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Another vote for NYC tap water. Haven't keeled over from lethal contaminates (or bad taste) yet. 
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Originally Posted by Railroader
The best part was when he gets them to drink it with A DAMN SPIDER IN IT.
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Being a connoisseur of water is like being a connoisseur of air.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
Thank you for posting that.
Bottled water is environmentally unsound, potentially dangerous for your health, hard on your wallet and the greatest marketing scam since Adam. We saw the Fiji water in a restaurant in Niagara on the Lake. Thankfully enough customers complained that they stopped this nonsense. Shipping water from Fiji, from France or anywhere really to Ontario is the height of madness.
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My wife picks up a bottle from time to time because she likes the bottle itself. She'll refill it and run it through the dishwasher until it starts to get flimsy and then get another bottle. I've been trying to find a similar type bottle (similar size, screw on cap and whatnot) that's designed to be reused, but haven't seen much.
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Wow. We should drink water from a south Pacific island? We should endorse this most sensible use of a limited resource, oil (imported oil), to both make the bottles and ship them to your supermarket?
Because the marketing of Fiji water is accurate?
My favorite water comes from the tap. We have pretty good municipal water in NYC, and a city government that has for decades understood the importance of providing it.
My husband says the same thing.
In fact, last night he put the Fiji water in a glass and our plain filtered refrigerator water in a glass and gave me a taste test and I really couldn't taste the difference - and guessed that the tap water was Fiji water.
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^Three cheers for having an open mind!
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Yeah, I guess I just need to refill the empty Fiji water bottles with tap water and refrigerate.
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Originally Posted by Dakar²
Being a connoisseur of water is like being a connoisseur of air.
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Well, people do partake of so-called "oxygen bars" don't they?
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Evian (no bubbles) or San Pellegrino (bubbles).
And there ARE differences in taste. Spa for example tastes like sand.
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Well thats a difference between sparkling water and flat water, obviously there is a difference there because of the carbonation.
Between the flat waters though, I think Penn and Teller's "experiments" proved that people are just dumb when it comes to bottle water.
The one thing I didn't like about their taste tests was that they offered the bottled water first for each test, then the tap water for B. It has been shown in politcal voting that the order of the candidates significantly changes people's votes. I bet if he had given them tap water first and then the real bottled water second, a majority would have picked the bottled water. Or he should have at least done half of the tests A-B and then half B-A.
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
I love Fiji water.
Can you taste a difference, or does paying outrageous prices for things make you fell good about yourself ?
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At home, I run my tap water through a Britta filter, that's it.
I only buy bottled water in bulk for my car, so I can get some instead of buying a soda while I'm driving.
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As someone who has dumped all soda from his diet, I just normally drink tap water here in Seattle. Portland tap water is fine too.
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Originally Posted by goMac
As someone who has dumped all soda from his diet, I just normally drink tap water here in Seattle. Portland tap water is fine too.
sparkling mineral water w/ice and slice of lemon = no reason to drink coke ever again.
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I do use a Brita filter on my tap. I don't know what's in my tap water (well water), but when you make ice cubes with it and stick it in anything carbonated, the carbonation dies out really fast. If I filter the water first, then make ice cubes, the drink stays carbonated like normal.
It's weird.
I had one other friend who had the same problem.
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Unless you're on the go and need to grab something, bottled water is for eediots. I recently saw a 6-pack of bottled water for $5.99 and I was shocked at the price...so I decided to fight back.
I bought the 6-pack, brought it home and dumped out all of the water and poured tap water into the bottles and drank them.
I showed them.
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Originally Posted by wallinbl
My wife picks up a bottle from time to time because she likes the bottle itself. She'll refill it and run it through the dishwasher until it starts to get flimsy and then get another bottle. I've been trying to find a similar type bottle (similar size, screw on cap and whatnot) that's designed to be reused, but haven't seen much.
Nalgene
Pick 'em up at REI or some other outdoor store. I carry these damn things everywhere and have a few stashed at my office, in my car, around the house... They just sort of accumulate.
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Originally Posted by freudling
Evian.
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Originally Posted by El Gato
Nalgene
Pick 'em up at REI or some other outdoor store. I carry these damn things everywhere and have a few stashed at my office, in my car, around the house... They just sort of accumulate.
I used to have Nalgene bottles but I have become a fan of GSI Outdoors H2O! water bottles. I have one on my desk at work (Glacier Ice Blue) and one in my shoulder bag (Zion Yellow) that goes everywhere with me (both the bag and the water bottle). In addition, I have a CamelBak Better Bottle water bottle for running. The flip-up top is the easiest thing I have found for getting water without stopping.
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