Tap water. I quit buying bottled water last year. Too much plastic waste.

Tap, of course. I will buy bottled water if I am desperately thirsty and away from home. I try to always take a bottle of tap water with me when away from home, but sometimes I forget.

Tap water. Sometimes if it smells heavily of chlorine, I will fill a pitcher and let the chlorine evaporate before drinking it. I also have a refillable filtered water bottle that I use daily.

Tap water. My water tastes fine.

I don’t really drink water but once in a while from the filtered fridge dispenser.

I drink filtered tap water here, but when I go to Mexico, I only drink bottled water, and I only use bottled water there for brushing my teeth. In Costa Rica and Brazil, I drank tap water, however.

Tap water here too. Funny my children were asking me why people drink bottled water anyway. I have no idea, unless it's sparkling or mineral water, why bother?

Tap water. We have an artesian well and our water is delicious. I also drink tap water when out of town unless I'm in a place where it isn't safe to do so mostly because I'm trying to reduce my consumption of plastic. I'm not crazy about the taste of chlorine, but it dissipates quickly enough if the water is allowed to sit for a while.

Tap. I have untreated well water that is quite delicious. I do love bubbly water and drink it frequently, but only buy glass bottles.

We just finally converted to tap water. I trust my city water for safety but it tastes bad. Plus we have a water softener. So our solution was to get a mobile home sized "whole house" filter and run hard water through it to the fridge and a pot filler only. Sediment and chlorine removal solved the issue. The size is way more than we needed but more economical since filter cartridge changes will be so infrequent to smaller point of use ones. We had them install an extra unit in the line so if our needs change we can change the medium in one of them.

Our water company started adding fluoride to the water so nope, can't drink that anymore. I use a filtering pitcher to remove that contaminant. That's a good reminder to check and make sure your water company hasn't fouled your water.

Tap water from our well.

Tap water. What‘s your objection to fluoride, Raye Smith?

I always drink tap water where ever I am... here, I run it through a brita filter and bottle some, to have a bottle ready to grab. My bottles are glass, except one stainless bottle that keeps it cold for a very long time... almost 24 hours. I always take a bottle of water with me when I leave the house.

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Our well water is very good. It comes from an underground spring. I don't like bottled water. I can taste the added minerals they put in there. It reminds me of baking soda.

Always tap, and we try to avoid to much single-use plastics. I have visited places in which the tap water tasted horrible -- a beach, and a west coast volcanic area. Our city water is treated with the usual chemicals for health, which I appreciate. Such a luxury to not worry about safe drinking water.

I drink our city's tap water. Years ago residents voted to have the flouride taken out of the water and the city complied.

I don't like the taste or feel of Brita water. It has a mouth-feel to it that I don't like.

Tap water. I don't care for the bottled, but I can't define the difference. I keep a case of the bottled in the event of a water outage, but I have to remember to use and replace it after a year or so as it takes on a foul taste from the plastic bottles.

Tap water that's filtered by Water Chef under counter filtration. Fluoride isn't added to our municipal water. We drink tap water anywhere in the USA and Canada.

Also tap water. My fridge has a water dispenser with a filter but it is a PITA to change the filter, so I don’t. I only use bottled water when I am hiking.

Our water is not fluoridated. We gave our kids fluoride supplements and they have ery good teeth as adults.

The worst-tasting bottled water is Dasani. It's vile!

The 2nd worst is Tim Horton's. Bought a bottle once on a road trip and threw it out.

tap water from the well, after it's run through the water softener. It's good right off the bat, but can't let it stand for a day or two. Because I notice a difference after a couple days, I buy jugs of regular water for the hummingbirds because I don't change the syrup every single day.

Tap water. But the truth is I don’t like water, so I usually drink iced tea. I keep a couple of cases of bottled water on hand “just in case,” like the time a city water pipe broke.

We have a whole house filter and use tap water or the water from our refrigerator dispenser which is also filtered. Our water quality is excellent on its own, no off taste, hardness or harmful, but we prefer the filters anyway and always refill our water bottles for travel. About the only time we buy water is when we are traveling and then we buy the large gallon sizes (or the largest we can) and refill our bottles, not the small ones.

Flak jacket on and secured? Check

We drink spring water that's delivered in reusable 3 and 5 gallon plastic bottles. We like the taste of it, it's a flavor choice not unlike what most people do with a favored beer, wine, coffee, or anything else. It's interesting, the water from the same company delivered to two different locations 400 miles apart doesn't taste quite exactly the same. We like them both but discern a slight difference. I think it's likely because the water comes from more local spring sources in each case and so shouldn't be expected to be the same. We drink a lot of plain water, it's our beverage of choice at most meals (even when we have beer or wine in addition).

I have no aversion to tap water from commercial sources, it's a matter of taste/flavor. The tap water in one location tastes better than in the other but the spring water we get tastes much better than both.

Personally, I wouldn't drink untested and unmonitored water from a personal well under any circumstances. Too many are contaminated and often simply from natural sources of the rocks and minerals in and adjacent to the underground aquifer. Worse yet, from runoff in many places. Running water through a water softener or simple inline or fridge filters often does little to change the profile of the suspended compounds in the water.

We had fluoridated water delivered to our home when I was growing up, it was what we drank. I'm now a Social Security recipient and I've never had a cavity. Thanks Mom!

Fluoride does nothing to protect you from cavities, junk science, magnesium is what protects the tooth enamel. Most countries are smart enough not to add it to their water. Due to genetic dental issues I was given fluoride on a daily basis. It did nothing to stop me from having cavities. The horrible side effect was the destruction of my thyroid. The fluoride blocks the iodine from reaching the thyroid, that's why hypothyroidism is so rampant today. Once you have a damaged thyroid it's even more important to avoid all sources of fluoride. The fluoride used in tap water is not from a naturally occurring compound, it's industrial waste. I have not had a single cavity since switching to fluoride free toothpaste over ten years ago.

Hmm, my husband was a dentist. Went to one of the finest dental schools in the country ( University of Pennsylvania) and he was a big proponent of fluoride, as were his professors. I suppose if you have underlying health problems that are aggravated by fluoride, you shouldn’t use it. None of us have thyroid problems.

raye, the positive effect of fluoride in water or by proper treatment administered by a dentist has been demonstrated consistently and unequivocally and has been an accepted fact for decades. As with so many other things, something that has an overwhelmingly positive benefit for the majority of people may not do so for a select few. That doesn't change the positive benefits or the advisability of widespread treatment

If you flipped a coin to accept or reject information you come upon, you'd have a higher success rate than whatever approach you use now to so often get things wrong.

Most water has some fluoride in it from natural sources. If a commercial water source the level is tested and if need be more added to raise it to the recommended level.

I drink tap water, when I drink it coffee is my preferred beverage. Having lived where well water is the normal source if possible I do not drink it. It needs to be tested at least yearly and in some areas more often. Many people seem to have the idea that since it is from the earth it has nothing bad in it. However they seem to forget that it is from the earth. When my husband's grandmother's well in Iowa was cleaned shortly before she died it contained all kinds of snakes, other small bodies and what was described as a couple of feet of sludge. Not all wells are simply a pipe stuck into the ground.

"Not all wells are simply a pipe stuck into the ground."

Isn't that referred to as a point, not a well? I believe they are not acceptable in some communities. ( I could be wrong here 😉 )

Big time iced water drinker and from my home tap.

The only time I've drunk bottled water was when we lived in LA and the city water was foul looking and smelling. Tap water for the rest of my life.

If I were o well water, I would have my well tested regularly.

I can't imagine NOT testing the well! LOL.

I drink tap water and ice from my fridge which does have a filter. I have a stainless steel water bottle with me all the time including beside my bed. It is essential for me to keep water with me. I have a condition that causes me to produce very little saliva and tears. At times my mouth is so dry I can't talk till I get water. That happens frequently at night which is why I keep my water close by. I love water, it's my drink of choice. I have visited areas that had such a high content of sulfur it and everything around it smelled like rotten eggs. I just can't drink that stuff.

Tap water at home near Chicago. Tap water from one of the better supplies on Maui. (Some areas on the island aren't as good.)

It became a chore to find filters for the ice/water dispenser on our old fridge, so I disconnected it. Zero difference in taste. (Better no filter than one so full of the 'whatever' that it is poisoning you.)

I only wish I had had protective fluoride in tap water when I was young. I'd have saved thousands in dental bills. Aren't there comparisons of dental health between locations with and without fluoridated water?

Elizabeth there are still hand dug wells that are in use in the US. I do not know how it was done other than I was told the walls were reinforced then the next section down was dug. The one I was referring to was a shallow 70 foot well. Old wells used a bucket lowered down into them but later had a hand pump installed. The grandmother until the late 1970's pumped her own water outside in all kinds of weather. Newer pumps are drilled then a pipe stuck down them which is what I was referring to as "a pipe stuck into the ground" vs the ones that were hand dug which requires a larger opening.

Our water has tasted 'chemically' for about the last year. I usually drink the filtered water from the refrigerator. The cat and dog get that also. I also keep bottled water on hand for other occasions.

wildchild, I had to read your post twice, I initially visualized a filter the size of a mobile home, haha.

Our tap water tastes bad so we use a filter pitcher and sometimes buy spring water.

I drink only tap water unfiltered. We have good water, once in a while especially after a storm you can smell a chlorine smell but it dissipates quickly. For a few years though in the 1990's I had bottled spring water brought in because of zebra mussels that left the municipal water smelling fishy. I grew up drinking fluoridated water too and in 2013 the city stopped using it but dentists have now asked for it to be added back to the water which the city will be doing. I prefer my water straight from the tap or room temperature.

I never drink tap water. I get jugs of water and refill them at a machine in a different city or at my sister's. my water isn't water from my city, it's hauled in to me every 4-6 wks from another city. I don't drink it or cook with it. don't make coffee with it and don't rinse my dishes with it. If I had to I probably could and survive but I don't need to take that chance, so I don't. I also filter the water in the water jugs thru a Seychelle filter. I make ice with the filtered water and fill my water bottle with it. I am also one who goes nowhere without my own water bottle filled at home.

Mainly tap. I do keep bottled water in my car, though, partly as part of my emergency supplies.

desertsteph, what is wrong with your local water? Is it provided by a private company or public endeavor?

I drink tap water. My village uses wells for its water supply. The original 5 wells were drilled into a sandstone aquifer. These wells were about 1200 ft deep. All went well for years until radioactive material was found in this water. It naturally occurs in sandstone. Our water has exceeded the assumed safe limit by a small amount. We are under orders from the state to lower the amount of radiation content. It is planned to add filtration to the supply, however, this is expensive and some of the technology is still under development. In the meantime, more wells were drilled into a water source at 175 ft depth or more and that water used to dilute the deep well water. I see a potential problem with these newer wells. Those are in the same aquifer as used by many surrounding rural homes. It remains to be seen if the aquifer will support everyone. Our village could draw it down creating a shortage in some private wells.

tap from our well too.

However, I do buy bottled water to keep on hand -- for DH to take w/him to work, for our kids (when they come to see us) who swear our water tastes funny. Which probably does to them. We have a softener system that the water runs through. Maybe that's what they're tasting?? I don't taste it.

We've had our water tested, and it's good.

Tap. Well water.

I lived in a home with a water softener and when it was installed I was told that the cold water in the kitchen would not be softened but it would have a filter on it. The softening process added salt and minerals to the water so I was told it was not for drinking. Also not used in the toilets.

A friend of mine told me I was wrong and that all her water was softened. I could taste it.

Elizabeth in this area for years it was suggested that there be one place that was not connected to the water softener because of the various minerals. I do not know when that was changed but the last time I mentioned it to someone it was strongly denied. But the denial was accompanied with the statement of being inspected and professionally maintained which seems to be something that from comments is not often done. My husband's cardiologist had water softeners on his list of questions and at least for his patients was something he discouraged.

I am not certain why it would not be used in toilet's.

desertsteph, what is wrong with your local water? Is it provided by a private company or public endeavor?

there was none out here when I moved out into the desert. if you didn't dig a well you got a tank to hold it and had it hauled out in a truck. I got a tank and had it hauled. lived that way fine. then about 8 yrs later after lots of developments built up around me. the 'new little town' tied into a water system built in it (all by the same developer). it cost 3 x as much each month to hook into it as I pay monthly to have it hauled so I stayed with that. over the last 15 yrs or so of that water source out here all I ever heard were complaints, and it was in the news on a regular basis. people complained of the smell and taste and often couldn't use it (they ended up needing to buy water in jugs to drink and cook with anyway). In recent yrs it's been in court over the quality, safety etc. more recently I read something about another town about 6 miles away (the town my sister is hooked into) taking over water service for this little town. Also there are still no 'water lines' out at the road to hook in to. and I don't want them to be. I don't want their trucks / men out by my house digging it up for months on end.

Bottled. For the first time ever we have what they call community water. Before moving here, we always had our own well. The water here is awful. We constantly get letters saying what is wrong with it and they are working to make it better. We had our own well drlled, and when we build we will hook the house up to our well. Right now the horses, goldfish and koi are the only ones on the well water.