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Do you have undrinkable water where you live? What’s the rationale behind buying fancy bottles to put your water in, in the first place? I’ve never understood that. No public water fountains in your part of the nation? No refrigeration?

Terrific marketing? What does the bottle do? Does it purify the water somehow? What motivates people to buy expensive water bottles in the first place?

I’m not being a smart-@ss, I just don’t get it.

I drink a lot of water all day long and I am on the go, so I drink it out of portable water bottles. So do the kids. We have a case of bottled water in the car for emergencies or for taking a water into someplace where you want to discard it.

Right now I am loving my current ba-ba which is a CamelBak biter.

It’s a whole lot cheaper than buying drinks everywhere, actually.

What motivates people to buy expensive water bottles in the first place?

I have a SIGG water bottle. I got it because it lasts longer than the cheap plastic water bottles that come with $1.50 bottled water. It might take a year or two to pay for itself, but it also has a loop on the lid that I use to secure it to my knapsack with a D-Ring.

Of course, I just put tap water in it usually, but I can also screw it onto the Katadyn water filter I take with me on longer hikes.

Do you have undrinkable water where you live? What’s the rationale behind buying fancy bottles to put your water in, in the first place? I’ve never understood that. No public water fountains in your part of the nation? No refrigeration?

I don't buy water or drinks during my work day and water fountains aren't available to me and even if they were, I don't want to use a water fountain when I am thirsty because it is difficult to knock back a quart at a time from a water fountain or to use it while eating lunch in your vehicle, and it sure isn't there if you get caught in a three hour traffic jam in the summer.

I have to carry my tap drinking water in something and I prefer permanent stainless steel canteens (or bottles as we call them now) to glass jars or the old fashioned versions of the canteen.

My question is how are people getting by without one version or another of a canteen and which version is permanent, easy to clean, guaranteed not to leak and will not wear out and start releasing chemicals after a year or two of constant use and desert heat and sun?