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AnwnnRabbit Forums Moderator posts: 6198 average posts: 8.6 per day	Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 1:45PM Do you buy bottled water? Why exactly? Cons: -60 million plastic bottles are thrown out every day in America alone. It's also a leading source of plastic pollution. -It takes millions of gallons of fuel to transport them. -It takes 3 times as much water to make the bottle as it does to fill it. -It's impossible to get chemical free water from a bottle or from the tap. -Plastic bottles release chemicals into your water. Like BPA. BPA ingestion is linked with cancer, and reproductive damage. -Most studies show the quality is no better than tap water. -Federal regulations only require bottled water to be as good as tap water, not better. -90% or so of the cost is the bottle, the lid, and the label you're buying. Pros of filtered water: -You only need to pay for the filter once. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars a year on bottled water. -You don't have to leave your house if you run out of water. -You can pick the degree of purity you want. -You won't be making any waste, or pollution. -You won't be adding chemicals like BPA to your water. -You'll be drinking a higher quality cleaner water. So why not use a filter at home? It's too hard to fill a glass bottle yourself? To put a pitcher of water in the fridge? ----- [This topic was last updated on October 3, 2009, 11:46AM by AnwnnRabbit.] Enjoy
twisted_illusions Andromeda posts: 20612 average posts: 18 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 2:07PM I usually drink tap water since it's the only thing available to me currently. I'd love to have water that's cleaner though. ----- Do you find the mucus in your nasel passage makes breathing a chore? Well then, perhaps you don't deserve to breathe at all. Enjoy
AnwnnRabbit Forums Moderator posts: 6198 average posts: 8.6 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 2:17PM They have pretty nice filters around $25-$35. I've never had one before, because I never paid much attention. As soon as we get a place to live I'm going to get one. I was oogling them yesterday at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. XD ----- [This post was last updated on October 3, 2009, 12:34PM by AnwnnRabbit.] Enjoy
Sonste Andromeda posts: 11575 average posts: 32.3 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 2:23PM We need a filter, tbh. I'm not sure why we haven't bought one. But our water has rust and all sorts of icky things in it, as it comes right from the well. AWFUL tasting. I tried it the day we moved here, 9 years ago, and haven't sipped it since. (I use it to brush my teeth though, obviously). ----- Dark and sinister man, have at thee. Enjoy
AnwnnRabbit Forums Moderator posts: 6198 average posts: 8.6 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 2:37PM I've always liked well water better than city water. I'd pass on the rust too, though. The older filters are actually more trouble. They catch alot of floaties and eventually if you don't take them out and clean them they start clogging. You get all kinds of weird stuff in your water. -.- My Sister uses water strictly from her bathroom over that. Instead of ya know..cleaning or removing the filter. xD At first I wanted to get a fridge that had a filter built in, but I can't see trying to clean or replace that if it were needed. New filters are much nicer.♥ ----- Enjoy
Morbida Andromeda posts: 19399 average posts: 11.9 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 3:28PM I use filter. Only time I buy water is if I'm really dehydrated and not at home (obviously). ----- Enjoy
AnwnnRabbit Forums Moderator posts: 6198 average posts: 8.6 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 4:07PM That's because you're sensible! ----- Enjoy
Vo_Spader Andromeda posts: 11874 average posts: 14.9 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 4:19PM When I had a fridge with a filter, I used that. But I'm a college student. I need my drink to be on the go, haha. I get bottled water to stock in my fridge so I can grab it and go. I also drink a lot of flavored water, so, again, bottles. If I can find a small filter-pitcher that won't take up my entire minifridge space and is cheap, I'll get it and just use refill my bottles. ----- Enjoy
kelleyy Andromeda posts: 846 average posts: 12.6 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 8:12PM The water in my town is shit brown. I'm not a fan of drinking it. Enjoy
ruzz Starling posts: 135 average posts: 1.8 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 8:19PM -It's impossible to get chemical free water from a bottle or from the tap. Because it is a chemical? I usually drink tap water since it's the only thing available to me currently. I'd love to have water that's cleaner though. Second most "colorful" group of NYers are the capital regioniers xD Right after long islanders. Enjoy
twisted_illusions Andromeda posts: 20612 average posts: 18 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 3, 2009, 8:29PM Yeah we're pretty awesome honestly On October 3, 2009, 2:17PM, AnwnnRabbit said: They have pretty nice filters around $25-$35. I've never had one before, because I never paid much attention. As soon as we get a place to live I'm going to get one. I was oogling them yesterday at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. XD We had a filter years ago.It was pretty nice. ----- you're the four leaf clover that guides me through Enjoy
Marlee Andromeda posts: 1406 average posts: 20 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 5, 2009, 3:50AM I can't afford bottled I prefer it though I've got a filter fuck drinking tap, it's disgusting. ----- Enjoy
ILLmortal Andromeda posts: 11409 average posts: 14.9 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 5, 2009, 12:19PM I buy bottled water and then take it home and refill for a few months, then throw them out and then buy more and do the same. ----- The capacity to hate is a frightening human reality; we are always ready to blame another if our circumstances can free us from our own self guilt. Enjoy
eon Site Founder posts: 8871 average posts: 5.4 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 6, 2009, 1:18PM I prefer spring water. So shoot me. (I do recycle my plastic.) ----- DS Bureaucracy™: Now providing organic, eco-friendly and sustainably produced Andromeda Time™. Do the right thing for yourself and the environment today! Enjoy
Neurotic_Psychosis Andromeda posts: 707 average posts: 7 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 6, 2009, 1:31PM I drink bottled water since I live in the tri-state area of Marathon oil and big coal mining ops. So the tap water is either not filtered enough and has that horrible rotten egg iron taste, or too filtered and taste like chlorinated pool water. -.- Fiji Water ftw. On occasion though I'll wash out an old water jug or something and Boil water and stick it in the fridge. But i'm lazy. edit: added link ----- No one ever wins. No one finally loses. Except the dead. Under the sun, they rot together with absolute biological equality. [This post was last updated on October 6, 2009, 1:34PM by Neurotic_Psychosis.] Enjoy
SONIC_DEATH Starling posts: 631 average posts: 7.6 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 14, 2009, 12:09AM Well water. Enjoy
twisted_illusions Andromeda posts: 20612 average posts: 18 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 14, 2009, 12:43AM Well water always tasted weird to me. ----- Coeur cassé Enjoy
SONIC_DEATH Starling posts: 631 average posts: 7.6 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 14, 2009, 4:03PM it's mah fave Enjoy
Achmed Starling posts: 6695 average posts: 4.7 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 25, 2009, 12:35AM Spring water is wonderful. Hard to come across in a lot of places, though. Tap water is fluorinated by the MAN, man! Enjoy
twisted_illusions Andromeda posts: 20612 average posts: 18 per day	Re: Bottled water vs filtered. October 25, 2009, 1:43PM So get a water filter for your sink? ----- Because the night belongs to lovers, Because the night belongs to us. Enjoy

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