Poll: Do you buy bottled water?

A Daily Poll ^ | June 19, 2009 | Dave Miller (tenger)

[Minn]

For trips and days on the lake. You freeze it. It makes great cooler ice. Then you drink it.

[SES1066]

Very seldom and only stuff like “Propel” for use in exercise. Otherwise I have a reverse osmosis setup at home and simply cycle between bottles.

[hoosier hick]

Nothing beats our well water, put through an R/O filter!!

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[MAD-AS-HELL]

Does distilling your own urine count as bottled water? :P

[petercooper]

[Dr. Sivana]

We have a well with reverse osmosis at the sink, but jugs of water comes in handy when the R/O filter cannot keep up with demand (homemade lemonade and iced tea for parties, etc.) A whole house R/O is a bad idea for those of us with septic systems.

[andy58-in-nh]

I’ve been buying up pallets of inexpensive bottled water because they can be stored for extended periods and used in times of emergency.

[Dan(9698)]

Bottled water costs way more than gasoline.

My car drinks gasoline, so I buy that.

[trisham]

Sure, when I’m away from home. It’s better than drinking soda.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You drink gasoline?

[monocle]

A more interesting poll would question the purchase of organic foods.

[wordsofearnest]

there is no inexpensive bottled water.

[Kimmers]

Rarely.....but I love my RO water.......

Recently we have bought a new/old house and having new wiring put in so I have bottled water for the workers in the fridge.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yeah, it's a dollar a gallon at the supermarket. Probably even cheaper in the big cooler bottles.

It blows the doors off the chemo-laced, stinking town tap water.

[wordsofearnest]

2 gallons for less than penny from my tap. tastes just as good.

[Sloth]

The very cheapest bottled water is hundreds of times more expensive than typical tap water. Bottled water from a vending machine runs along the lines of 3000+ times.

[andy58-in-nh]

It’s $4.00 for a pallet of 24 12 oz. bottles at Shaw’s Supermarkets in NH. Cheap enough?

[Dan(9698)]

You drink gasoline?

Read the post. My car drinks gasoline.

It would be more expensive if it ran on bottled water.

[ctdonath2]

I try to keep a case of 0.5L bottles in each car, and 100 gallons in the garage, for convenience & emergencies.

Here in the hot south, water availability is probably the #1 emergency supply. There are no natural lakes in Georgia, yet the artificial lakes provide most of the drinking water for the state - a fact I became keenly aware of last year when Lake Lanier (just a mile from me) was well on its way to emptying out completely (what happens when 4 million rednecks can’t flush?).

I’m not at all wound up about choosing bottled water over tap water, just concerned that there is always enough on hand to ensure there IS water available (at least long enough to find more).