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Wed, 07-11-2007 - 9:59am
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 10:12am

We always have a few smallish bottles around (500 ml)

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 10:33am

Every time we travel we toss a case of water in the car with us, and since we've traveled A LOT lately we have the beer fridge FULL of bottled watter right now! LOL! I keep big water bottles regularly filled and in the fridge, and yes my kids grab them anytime they want! We have an odd assortment of bottles from various places we've gone so I guess it's kind of our 'collection'.

We've raised the kids to be water drinkers, I don't really keep kool-aid prepared but they can make it by the glass if they want. I don't keep colas on hand usually, but sometimes in the summer I'll buy off-brand and they are allowed one a day, but only with lunch. It's water water water for us!

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 10:36am
Yes, I keep bottled water on hand and they can drink whenever they like.
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Registered: 09-26-2003
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 10:49am

During the summer months especially I always keep bottled water in the fridge!


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Registered: 06-29-2001
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 10:54am

We do have bottled water, but we have it for convenience, not because we won't drink tap water.

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Wed, 07-11-2007 - 11:34am

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 12:35pm

I'm not a fan of bottled water. Here are some of the issues:

1. Bottled water costs as much as or more than pop, juice, etc. This seems like a racket for big corps like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, etc., who have been the ones driving us to think we need bottled water so they can replace their lagging pop sales by packaging and selling that which is the most plentiful earthly resource and the most basic of human needs.

2. If we are concerned that our water supply is so contaminated that we cannot drink from our taps, why would we not put our financial resources toward cleaning up our tapwater than toward bottling up drinking water? Whatever the method is for "purifying" water for bottled water, why could we not have local plants that provide that? Also, if you're worried about drinking your tapwater, then be sure you're somehow purifying the water you bathe in. Our skin absorbs a lot of water when we bathe, take showers or wash our hands. Also, if you're rinsing your meats and vegetables at the tap, arent' you "exposing" yourself to whatever's in that water that is getting into your food?

3. Bottled water wastes resources and creates trash. Sure, we can recycle the plastic, but if we could just drink purified water from the tap, we wouldn't even have those bottles needing to be recycled in the first place. And on the subject of the plastic, the water is highly likely to absorb contaminants from the bottle itself, perhaps making the water in that plastic bottle more toxic than your tapwater.

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Registered: 07-26-1999
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 12:38pm

With Jordyn being an athlete, DH and I working out often (okay, not me so much anymore, but eventually I'll get back to it), and the Texas heat, I always keep bottled at home and I am always reminding Jordyn to drink more. I am a flavored water drinker, so we always have water (usually Ozarka), Propel, and sometimes a flavored water like Aquafina Flavor splash or something, but I don't like Splenda, so I try and stay away from anything sweetened with it. I grew up with well water at home, and we tend to have harder water in the apartment we live in, so I would rather they have bottled water than what comes out of the tap, and I do keep a Brita pitcher at home to filter water through and refill the bottles we already have. Plus I don't like the fact that they add flouride to the tap water at the plant, as well as a lot of other foods.




Edited 7/11/2007 12:45 pm ET by arryl
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Wed, 07-11-2007 - 12:42pm

We filter our own water but I saw an ad for Brita I think it was, the kind that goes straight on your faucet and you just turn it on when you want filtered water. It even comes with these flavour shots for those who will only drink flavoured water. You hold your glass under, give it a shot of raspberry (or watever) and then fill it with the filtered water. Personally I think flavoured water is disgusting unless its highly sweetened, then its called soda. LOL But I find our tap water tastes "funny'. Nothing wrong with it physically but I guess I am so used to the filtered now that I find the tap is weird. Although at work I drink tap water. Probably purely psychological. LOL

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Registered: 07-26-1999
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 12:46pm
Tam, that's Pur that makes that attachment, Jordyn saw the ad and really wants one. Once we buy and move into a house hopefully in the spring I want a faucet unit to use to purify the water.
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