When I was a kid, before bottled water or Brita filers existed, I drank water right from the tap. I can't remember when I stopped doing this but now I never do. I sometimes even feel th heebie-jeebies rinsing my mouth with tap water after brushing my teeth - ridiculous, right??? I know.
I don't have to drink bottled water but I definitely use a Brita filter at home.
Do you drink tap water?
grapefruit / 4703 posts
I drink tap water - our water is very clean, and it tastes good to me!
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
It probably doesn't actually taste weird but your taste buds have gotten used to the taste of Brita and bottled water. You can really get used to anything. I used to hate Evian but then I worked in an office that only had Evian and I just got used to it.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
We had a well when we were growing up, so our water was great. I stopped drinking from the tap when I lived in some areas where the city water wasn't great.
Our water here is fine. I drink out of the tap or out of our refrigerator. I know for sure the stuff coming out of my tap isn't going through anything with BPA's, so I feel good about that. Plus, the flouride from tap water is good for our teeth.
cherry / 166 posts
We have well water, which around here is pretty bad. So when we got our water softner put in we had them put in a reverse osmosis filtering system that filters our tap water. It's right at our sink and it tastes great. I drink more water now than I ever have because it's right there and it tastes great.
squash / 13199 posts
we drink filtered tap water, and bottled water. Since I got pregnant the tap water has tasted a bit weird to me so I stick to bottled water. But I still use tap water to brush my teeth.
pomegranate / 3008 posts
It depends on the water. The water at my office tastes gross to me so I drink filtered water at the office. At home, my water tastes great so I drink it from the tap without filtering. We buy bottled water to be able to offer it to guests if that is their preference but we don't often drink it ourselves.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Yes, always have. I did drink bottled at my office thought, the tap water there tasted gross...but I suppose if I had to, I could have drank it.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
We drink out of a brita filter at home and are stocked with bottled water for work. I think now, it's more of a "taste" preference more than a concern for how clean tap/filtered water is... I'm not as finicky about tap water as DH. He can't stand the taste.
GOLD / pomelo / 5167 posts
I still drink from the tap. I find water bottles are a waste. Sure the taste is a little different, but tap water is free! 
grapefruit / 4400 posts
I drink tap water whenever I finish my bottled water (just fill it up). I can't tell a difference (I actually think Dasani tastes like crap, so there ya go...).
apricot / 254 posts
My fridge has a filter for the water...so it's close to tap water. I find the plastic bottles wasteful..those commercials always get to me. Lol
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
i can smell the chlorine in the tap water so i can't drink it. i actually only drink korean tea as water!
clementine / 958 posts
When I'm in my home city I drink tap water, but I usually drink filtered or bottled water when I travel because other cities' water always tastes funny to me. I grew up drinking tap water, so I'm accustomed to the taste of the local brew.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
We have a brita in the fridge. I don't think I mind tap water, I just really like the way fridge cold water tastes... is that weird?
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
Our town has its own water district, so sometimes we get really funky things happening like all kinds of mold/mildew growing in the shower. And sometimes it's totally fine. SO no one in our house drinks tap water. We stopped drinking it from the filter in the fridge too (since we were too lazy to change the filter) -- we buy bottled water from Costco now. A pack of 36 is less than $4.
GOLD / apricot / 337 posts
Mr. M always makes fun of me because I claim that tap water tastes weird! When I was growing up, my parents would boil the tap, so it tasted different. Now we have a water filter in our fridge as well as a water dispenser with the big 5 gallon jugs from Poland Spring. The taste of tap water makes me gag. 
pear / 1852 posts
I have always drunk tap, except the two years I lived out west, and there were water problems- it changed colour and occasionally stopped.
Living in the city I have no problem with it here.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Yep! My town has really clean and great tasting tap water!
honeydew / 7968 posts
i think the only tap water i drink is at restaurants - i hope they use filters but sometimes, doesn't taste like it (in other states). at home, we just drink bottled water. i hear tap water is supposed to be good for you, but then i also heard that in long island, there was some seepage of something and the grounds are not "clean" and there have been known carcinogens or something.
apricot / 302 posts
Tap water is so different everywhere. Where I grew up, we had awesome Tap Water, it was from a small aquifer that served a rural community and it had no funky tastes or weird chemicals. After that, I was so used to drinking out of the tap that I continued it wherever I lived after, thankfully I haven't lived in any places with terrible tap water. In our last apartment, we installed a Pur faucet filter and truthfully, I didn't notice any difference, so since we couldn't install it at the new place (sprayer faucet), I just drink tap (my husband, on the other hand, fills a Pur pitcher in the fridge everyday).
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
I prefer the flavor of our tap water over bottled in almost every case. Except Fiji. Fiji is my favorite bottled water in the whole world.
persimmon / 1135 posts
This question is so funny to me... Growing up, my dad was the Director of Water Utilities in our city, so it was tap water or no water! Bottled water was not allowed in the house. Granted bottled water was not as much of a thing then as it is now.
In most major cities, there really isn't a reason not to drink tap water.
pear / 1639 posts
I drink tap water, but we have a well. I won't drink it in town because I can smell the chlorine.
persimmon / 1134 posts
@Rosie Girl: I grew up on well water, and I LOVE it. People usually look at me like I'm nuts when I say that, but it's good!
We have city water now, but I still drink out of the tap. It's never really bothered me. I'll buy a bottled water if I'm out and about, but that's about it.
pear / 1639 posts
@jennylynn: haha! I love well water! Both DH and I grew up on it, and our parents still have it too! Its the only tap water I will drink!!!!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I will drink tap water only if it comes from a well. My dad has well water and so does my mil so my husband is the same way. We won't drink "city water" from the tap. We have a brita filter that we use daily.
nectarine / 2458 posts
I do at my Mom's house; the town I grew up in has great water. Where I'm living now - NO WAY! The water SMELLS! I even used filtered water when I cook!
coffee bean / 38 posts
We have our own well and our water tastes great, so yes, we do drink tap water. I love it cold, so I always keep a pitcher of tap water in the fridge.
grapefruit / 4056 posts
I drink tap water, where I live the water quality is amazing. I have also read a lot of research showing that a lot of bottled waters have more bacteria and dissolved chemicals than tap water.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
No way. I'm a water snob. My hubby thinks I'm weird because of it.
persimmon / 1465 posts
I have lived in towns where the tap water was undrinkable - if you saw the dam there is no way you would drink the water! Most people had rainwater tanks.
Where I live now has great water so I guzzle it down from the tap. I don't get buying water as I don.t like how it tastes (plasticy) and the environmental cost seems unnecessary.
grapefruit / 4554 posts
We drink out of a Brita filter at home, bottled at work. I don't mind tap water at all, and it has all the minerals and fluoride in it that we need. We also get a quaterly water analysis mailed to us from our town so we know exactly what's in it.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I drink water from our refrigerator which has a filter, but it doesn't bother me to drink from the tab as long as there is pelnty of ice!
pineapple / 12526 posts
I drink tap water. I only buy bottled if I'm out and get really thirsty. I think bottled water is really wasteful.
cherry / 196 posts
Yes, I always have at least tried. Our old apartment had somewhat funky tasting water, so we stuck to mostly bottled water, but now we have no problems.
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
Yup. We're fortunate to live in a place where the tap water tastes quite decent. Where we went to college the water was nasty so we both a ton on money on bottled water.
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