Tap Water

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Do you drink tap water? If yes or no, why? What do you think about tap water and if you drink other kinds of water, why do you drink that water?

I drink tap water when I don't have a working filter. I dislike it, because it tastes dirty, and it's too hard. After about 6 hours of sitting out in a glass it tastes even worse. With filtered water the taste is cleaner, crisper, lighter, and doesn't go bad as quick. I feel like I am drinking healthier water when drinking it filtered.

I drink tap water. Doesn't bother me. Usually with ice (which is made out of frozen tap water).

But I never leave it sitting out for 6 hours, seems kind of like a waste, so I wouldn't know about that.

all the tap water i've used, got slimy after just a day in the fridge, so i drink only bottled water and i brush my teeth only with filtered water.

Melbourne tap water is fantastic - I drink it all the time. I'll even drink it after a day if I've left a glass overnight and forgotten about it - it tastes the same.

I occasionally buy a bottle of water if I am out, need water, and there's no access to a tap. Otherwise I see no reason to do this. It doesn't taste as good anyway and is usually too cold for me if it has come straight from the fridge (warmer water is digested more easily anyway).

I'd love to move out of Melbourne one day, but honestly one of the major downsides to this would be the lesser-quality water from other regions/states of Australia.

Yes, I do, because of being thirsty. The taste has never been a problem for me.

i live in holland, so i got perfectly good tap-water, better then some imported bottleds.
80% of what i drink is tapwater (though usually from a botle out of convinience, i tap my own bottles)

I drink tap water all the time. Haven't gotten ill from it, besides I see bottled water both a waste of resources, and a complete rip-off compared to tap water. I even have the nerve to ask for a glass of it in a random restaurant when I'm feeling too thirsty

Tap Water is usually Hard in most countries (Japan's is soft).

The chemicals in the tap water I don't wholly trust on it's own...sure the chemicals are edible and are beneficial....but I would advice only drinking bottled/spring water for the natural preservatives (and fluoride if you have none in your toothpaste).

I only drink it with Vitamin Tablets (the kind that make the water taste better).

I always wonder why bathroom water tastes sickly compared to Kitchen Tap Water.

Having lived in both melb and adl. Adl is far nicer. I cant stomache the tap water in the other cities though. yuck.

Where I live the tap water is pretty awful tasting, and considering the mineral deposits it leaves on everything, it's not something I want to consume. I drink reverse osmosis water from our home filtering system, which is the same thing as drinking bottled water, only it costs less and there are no plastic bottles.

I've visited other places where I wouldn't mind drinking the tap water at all. Tap water differs a lot from place to place.

One theory is that if you drink it from inside the bathroom, as the senses of taste and smell are closely linked, the general bathroom odour will be felt in the water too, and thus make it taste sickly. There is probably a psychological factor as well. If I fill a glass in the bathroom, then get out and drink from it somewhere else, it tastes just as it does from the kitchen, for me.

They really should taste the same, unless there is something special with a bathroom's plumbing compared to the kitchen, or bad taste somehow built up in the faucet to high enough levels to be felt or something, which I see as really, really unlikely. A double blind test would be interesting though

In the UK most (older) properties have water tanks (storing cold water). These usually feed the bathroom, toilet and hot water system. This water is not considered drinkable once it has been sitting in the tank for some time.

The kitchen tap is often the only one connected directly to the incoming water supply.

council juice is free so i almost always drink it. taste/cleanliness is never a problem in any of the places in scotland i have lived/been

I drink tap, which comes from a well, if it has been tested & filtered. Otherwise I drink bottled - dispensed from a place that runs it through the reverse osmosis system. I trust that this makes it clean, taste good and yucky minerals and pollutants like arsenic are removed.
Best water I ever drank was in the sierra nevada streams above treeline. But that's hard to come by.

best water i ever had was in a high mountainous area stream. i've yet to taste any other water like it.

Bottled water might taste better than tap water, but it usually contains more contaminants than your city's tap water! In the US, municipal water treatment facilities have to meet very stringent water quality standards, regardless of taste! Bottled water doesn't have to meet these standards, and the focus is on tasting the same, which is done by a formula of minerals added to the water.

http://www.ewg.org/reports/BottledWater/Bottled-Water-Quality-Investigation

Bottled water is a huge tax on the environment, requiring tons of carbon emissions to bring you a lower quality product.

The solution? Buy a reusable water bottle and a brita/pur-style water filter. It's cheaper, doesn't require you to constantly waste resources, and gives less money to ginourmous corporations.

To finally answer the question, sometimes. It tastes okay up here, but I have a filter so I use it. Sometimes it feels like you have to chew the tap water! hehe.