Do you buy bottled water from the store? Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use? Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?
I'm in North Queensland, Australia. Generally as I'm in a not very polluted rural area, source good rain water from a tank - unfiltered and untreated for the most part. If away as in visiting large towns / cites; generally they have good water treatment so I don't have an issue drinking unfiltered water unless they're dealing with issues like flooding events. Over the other side of the Great Dividing Range, it's a very different story from some of the accounts I've heard and thus take enough to last for a couple days if I'm out that way, not that I do much of that any more. Apparently some smaller local authorities aren't so good at hiring the right people or have the right sort of treatment plant and resulting water might be more suited for scouring and restoring a clogged washing machine.
I generally avoid bottled water (typically purchased if I must in larger containers over a gallon or 4 L) that is available at stores unless I'm sure the brand passes the one week after opening test; in that after a week taking a few cupfuls out of a say a 10 L container, letting fresh air in, the water retains a pleasant neutral odour, and not a pong from a much increased bacteria count.
I fill 5 gal bottles at a water store. Some of the 12 bottles I use are 30 years old. My kids and their friends grew up drinking from a water cooler at our house instead of sodas or juice.
When I started buying in 1993, my treated municipal water sourced from the Potomac river had a chlorine taste that seemed more noticeable in the winter. I now use unfiltered tap for coffee, tea and cooking, and barely notice any chlorine taste.
> Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use?
Yes. Brita. I don't know which one. It attaches directly to the faucet.
> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?
Yes. United States. I'm currently in Alabama and drink unfiltered tap water as needed. I also still drink straight from the hose outside when it is hot.
I'm in the US. I drink unfiltered tap water. It's very good in my neck of the woods.
I don't buy bottled water unless I happen to be at some event or something where it's the only option, or I've traveled to an area where the tap water isn't good.
I live in Houston with active natural gas production nearby. I don't drink the tap water. Both the dog and I drink grocery store bottled alkaline water, and I'm spoiled on Topo Chico for sparkling.
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I generally avoid bottled water (typically purchased if I must in larger containers over a gallon or 4 L) that is available at stores unless I'm sure the brand passes the one week after opening test; in that after a week taking a few cupfuls out of a say a 10 L container, letting fresh air in, the water retains a pleasant neutral odour, and not a pong from a much increased bacteria count.
In fact, the quality controls for tap water are more strict than for bottled water:
https://www.drinkwaterplatform.nl/fleswater-vs-kraanwater-wa... (in Dutch)
https://www-drinkwaterplatform-nl.translate.goog/fleswater-v... (Machine translated to English)
This is true in the US as well.
When I started buying in 1993, my treated municipal water sourced from the Potomac river had a chlorine taste that seemed more noticeable in the winter. I now use unfiltered tap for coffee, tea and cooking, and barely notice any chlorine taste.
When driving. But not for day-to-day.
> Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use?
Yes. Brita. I don't know which one. It attaches directly to the faucet.
> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?
Yes. United States. I'm currently in Alabama and drink unfiltered tap water as needed. I also still drink straight from the hose outside when it is hot.
No
> Do you filter tap water?
No
> What filter do you use?
N/A
> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)?
Yes (Australia)
> Something else?
I use unfiltered tap water to make soda water -- I drink quite a bit of that.
Actually, my fridge has a cold water thing, which has an inline filter built in. But I don’t choose to filter the water as such.
I don't buy bottled water unless I happen to be at some event or something where it's the only option, or I've traveled to an area where the tap water isn't good.
There was never an problem with it.