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**Tattooed Bard** · 08-21-2008, 03:09 PM

If you have a Speedway nearby, they have eon brand water for 3.99 which is not great but, they also have 3.00 off coupons making it 99 cents for a case of 24 bottles of water. If you are like me, every little saved goes that much further.

**mhillsing23** · 08-21-2008, 04:11 PM

Buy a bottle. Refill in the tap. Even cheaper.

Bill in San Jose · 08-21-2008, 04:15 PM

My little company buys countless cases of bottled water. The tap water here comes across Cali from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir located inside Yosemite National Park, one of the most pristine places in the world, and across Calif in a pipeline under gravity-feed, not even a pump in the system.

Fools, the tap water her tastes like you're in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on vacation.

Chili1k · 08-21-2008, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mhillsing23

Buy a bottle. Refill in the tap. Even cheaper.

That would be great, can you have my city officials put in a reverse osmosis filter, so we could actually tolerate looking at it. Here, its all rusted out, the city doesnt care and their only answers to water quality is more chemicals. Anything that comes out of our tap stinks.

I'll stick to something a little better than riverwater.

Mike

LKB3rd · 08-21-2008, 04:22 PM

Most places put chlorine and fluoride in the tapwater, as well as numerous other substances that get in there by themselves, and all of which are bad for you. Many bottled waters are just filtered tapwater, and I'd bet that they focus on making it taste better, not being healthier.
Next time you are somewhere that sells rat poison, pick it up and have a look at the ingredient. One ingredient, sodium fluoride (same as they put in the water and toothpaste). They say that the levels are so low as to not be poisonous, but I'd love to be able to talk to one of those people, and take out some rat poison, put a little on the tip of a toothpick, and ask if they'd be willing to prove how confident they are of that and eat it... or smear some on their teeth.

Cuda · 08-21-2008, 05:13 PM

Am I the only one who has NEVER bought water? If I'm going to buy something to drink it's going to be something tasty. At home I have fresh clean well water with no added chemicals!!!

JeffXD · 08-21-2008, 05:30 PM

Our city water tastes like a swimming pool.

RobFMJ · 08-21-2008, 05:40 PM

Only place I've been to that has worse tap water than Galveston is College Station

I miss Colorado Springs tap water..... oh so good and cold all year round

D_Fence · 08-21-2008, 05:56 PM

Even an expensive under-the-sink filtration device is going to be cheaper than buying bottled water.

LKB3rd · 08-21-2008, 06:13 PM

Berkey water filters are excellent, and with the fluoride filters(55$, lasts around a year give or take) remove all of the stuff except for clean, pure water. They come with the standard filters, which get 90% of the crap out. Ends up cheaper than bottled water, no plastic bottles to deal with, and is as clean as, and in many cases cleaner than bottled water.
Most of the cheaper filters do little other than make the water taste better.

08-21-2008, 03:09 PM	#1
Tattooed Bard XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Winchester, Ky Posts: 1,242	Heads up for bottled water drinkers... If you have a Speedway nearby, they have eon brand water for 3.99 which is not great but, they also have 3.00 off coupons making it 99 cents for a case of 24 bottles of water. If you are like me, every little saved goes that much further.
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mhillsing23 XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Arnold, MO Posts: 4,918	Buy a bottle. Refill in the tap. Even cheaper. __________________ The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
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Bill in San Jose XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,801	My little company buys countless cases of bottled water. The tap water here comes across Cali from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir located inside Yosemite National Park, one of the most pristine places in the world, and across Calif in a pipeline under gravity-feed, not even a pump in the system. Fools, the tap water her tastes like you're in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on vacation. __________________ "We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet Union "Change has come to America". Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-present) President of the United States
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08-21-2008, 04:22 PM	#5
LKB3rd XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: CT Posts: 1,070	Most places put chlorine and fluoride in the tapwater, as well as numerous other substances that get in there by themselves, and all of which are bad for you. Many bottled waters are just filtered tapwater, and I'd bet that they focus on making it taste better, not being healthier. Next time you are somewhere that sells rat poison, pick it up and have a look at the ingredient. One ingredient, sodium fluoride (same as they put in the water and toothpaste). They say that the levels are so low as to not be poisonous, but I'd love to be able to talk to one of those people, and take out some rat poison, put a little on the tip of a toothpick, and ask if they'd be willing to prove how confident they are of that and eat it... or smear some on their teeth. Last edited by LKB3rd; 08-21-2008 at 04:26 PM.
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Cuda XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Alabama Gulf Coast Posts: 416	Am I the only one who has NEVER bought water? If I'm going to buy something to drink it's going to be something tasty. At home I have fresh clean well water with no added chemicals!!! __________________ XD9 Service "Black" + maybe a "Few" others *************** Beware of Dogma**
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JeffXD XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Great State of Texas Posts: 1,587 Blog Entries: 1	Our city water tastes like a swimming pool. __________________ This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. - Jon Voight
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08-21-2008, 05:40 PM	#8
RobFMJ XDTalk 2K Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Galveston, Texas Posts: 2,008	Only place I've been to that has worse tap water than Galveston is College Station I miss Colorado Springs tap water..... oh so good and cold all year round __________________ Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
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08-21-2008, 05:56 PM	#9
D_Fence XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 1,448	Even an expensive under-the-sink filtration device is going to be cheaper than buying bottled water.
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08-21-2008, 06:13 PM	#10
LKB3rd XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: CT Posts: 1,070	Berkey water filters are excellent, and with the fluoride filters(55$, lasts around a year give or take) remove all of the stuff except for clean, pure water. They come with the standard filters, which get 90% of the crap out. Ends up cheaper than bottled water, no plastic bottles to deal with, and is as clean as, and in many cases cleaner than bottled water. Most of the cheaper filters do little other than make the water taste better.
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