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I didn't use bottled water til I moved to a entirely diffrent area 7 years ago. After I moved I noticed that the water smelled like bleach and tasted kinda funny. The water also left a horrible reside on my shower walls. I couldn't have my family drink water like that so I invested in a water machine that has the 5 gal refillable jugs. It only costs me $ 2.00 to refill them each time which comes to about $ 8 to 10 dollars a month. Everyone in the family has a refillable to go water bottle for when ever we go out and I clean the 5 gal jugs once a month with a bleach mixture that I rinse out to the point where you no longer smell the bleach.

Posted by JWalsh on 08/22/2009 03:33 PM

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Living here in So California the water is awful. Even the people who work for the water dept tell you not to drink the water. I have even gotten sick due to the overpowering smell of chlorine in it. I have a water distiller and any water bottles I purchase for being away from home I recycle by putting my distilled water in them and take them along. When the bottles get old, I take them to by recycled.  When I travel for several days I will purchase gallon jugs to take with me, as I drink about a gallon of water a day.  I do have a water filter in my refrigerator, but only use that to make my coffee or cooking.

Posted by HealthNut on 08/19/2009 04:11 AM

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I don't like to use botled water..I just know what plastic is made of and will not use them if I don't have too...The water I get from the village I live in isn't too bad and I do drink a lot of it....We have this one landfill that looks a like a mountian,well the whole area looks like mountians....And it's time we all try to help Mother Earth in some way and getting rid of the plastic is just one step in doing that... 

Posted by RavenStar on 08/14/2009 09:55 AM

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I recently bought a stainless water bottle for water on the go. Our water at home taste great, so it was just in the car that was a problem. Not any more. My stainless water bottle goes everyplace with me!

Posted by homesteadinginmaine on 08/12/2009 12:20 PM

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I guess that I am lucky to live in a city with great tasting water. I just take a gallon of water and put it in the fridge or freezer (sometimes I forget it and end up with a huge ice cube...duh) and it tastes wonderful. I have always thought that paying for water two different ways was kind of insane. I already have a water bill to deal with.

You really ask some of the most interesting questions and I love reading everyone's replies.

Posted by WildWoodBasil on 08/01/2009 11:11 PM

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I am guilty of using bottled water (until about 6 mos. ago). I now have a filter (Culligan) on my faucet.  I still wonder how great a job it really does though.  Can we really believe what the manufacturer says about how much "stuff" it removes?  I have well water, but felt that if I filtered my water I would be "doubly" safe?  I do have a filter in my basement for well water, and it gets really yucky looking very fast, I have a lot of rusty color.  When I first moved in the water was tested and it was within gov. limits.  That was 4 yrs. ago. 

Posted by Mesmerized62 on 07/30/2009 11:07 AM

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I am because I think it's healthier. Besides, I have read on Project Weight Loss water naturally helps to suppress my appetite and drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day will help me lose weight and burn fat.

Posted by sal_barney on 07/30/2009 10:25 AM

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We don't have a recycle program in Apache.   My husband is the water man for Apache I buy distilled for my coffee pot our water is hard but it is tested monthly for inorganic and organic chemicals and coliform bacteria etc.   The water is not cholorinated and it has a good flavor.   I buy a couple of bottles on the road.  I don't like the water when we travel.   It always tastes like bleach to me.    My husband has done this job over 30 years so I would be the first to know if there was a problem.   On the road I stick with Ozarka.  I never got any thing to come up on the chart so I don't know how that brand rated.   The movie "Flow"  sounds interesting.  

Posted by AliceMcKean on 07/29/2009 10:37 PM

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With all of the studies about bottled water and the BPE's in the Plastics I've fully switched off, for the sake of my future kids I hope to have someday. A few days ago I just saw the research that EWG (great site ewg.org) released of their tests on bottled waters and who the worst offenders were. Here is the link so you can look up your water, so if you do still buy bottled water (I still do in a very hot summy pinch) at least you can try to find the healthiest one out there.

http://www.ewg.org/health/report/bottledwater-scorecard

Posted by Glorified_Icing_Slinger on 07/25/2009 09:19 PM

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BEING THAT I LIVED IN THE CITY  I JUST BOILED MY WATER  IT CUT DOWN OF SO MANY  PLASTIC BOTTLE  IN YOUR LANDFILL  I KNOW THIS CAN BE TIME CONSUMING  BUT TO WORK FOR ME

Posted by jackee61 on 07/24/2009 11:36 PM

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