https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:38:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water/page/2#post-23978 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:02 +0000 cyneswith 23978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but sometimes I just CAN'T here. The water sometimes smells and TASTES like chlorine. It makes me nauseous. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-23962 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:03:49 +0000 MaisyMay 23962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-23945 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:45:47 +0000 LinzR 23945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-23890 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:21:39 +0000 loveisstrange 23890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I drink tap water. I only buy bottled if I'm out and get really thirsty. I think bottled water is really wasteful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-23812 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:45:19 +0000 LuLu Mom 23812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-23782 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:03:33 +0000 lavender 23782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21515 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:41:31 +0000 cupcakemama 21515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21458 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:39:50 +0000 heffalump 21458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way. I'm a water snob. My hubby thinks I'm weird because of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21452 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:21:40 +0000 VanessaC15 21452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I drink filtered tap water that I keep in the fridge. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21447 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:17:23 +0000 MsMini 21447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21395 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:18:22 +0000 MrsFarmer 21395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21393 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:16:46 +0000 Navy_Mommy 21393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21388 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:00:20 +0000 ALittleP 21388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We drink tap water but have a pur water filter on our faucet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21188 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:35:17 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 21188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21182 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:32:18 +0000 Rosie Girl 21182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21152 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:14:51 +0000 jennylynn 21152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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! </p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21112 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:51:12 +0000 Rosie Girl 21112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I drink tap water, but we have a well. I won't drink it in town because I can smell the chlorine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21093 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:45:39 +0000 MegWag 21093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.<br /> In most major cities, there really isn't a reason not to drink tap water. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21058 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:13:34 +0000 DillonLion 21058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21056 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:10:30 +0000 meaganceleste 21056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21053 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:07:13 +0000 tequiero21 21053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21028 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:21:46 +0000 winniebee 21028@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! My town has really clean and great tasting tap water! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21022 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:11:53 +0000 Mrs. D 21022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have always drunk tap, except the two years I lived out west, and there were water problems- it changed colour and occasionally stopped.<br /> Living in the city I have no problem with it here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21020 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:06:35 +0000 Mrs. Marbles 21020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-21014 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:03:28 +0000 mrs. wagon 21014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-20992 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:50:07 +0000 prettylizy 20992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-20985 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:39:52 +0000 cyndistar3 20985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I drink tap water most of the time, our water is pretty good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-20984 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:33:53 +0000 owlmom 20984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-20979 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:26:30 +0000 Mrs. Bee 20979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i can smell the chlorine in the tap water so i can't drink it. i actually only drink korean tea as water! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-drink-tap-water#post-20976 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:24:46 +0000 L2sweetpea 20976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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 </p>