As opposed to what? What have they been filling up Dasani and Evian water bottles with?

submitter: pointing out how people have gone stupid always been

/drunk and made beer with well water as a kid, moved to the city, uses tap water.
//yes, tested tap water before brewing. It's fairly neutral.
///wishes he still had well water because the limestone made better ales.

Do they have vending machines that dispense chilled filtered water into standard size water bottles? I've seen the ones at supermarkets that refill bigger jugs, but not ones for water bottles. If they don't have them someone should make one.

NY Municipal Water is some of the best tasting, treated water you can possibly get ~ very soft Catskill watershed.

I miss the hell out of it

I'd kill to get it where I am now (Delaware surface water. Yum! Chemicals!)

waste of plastic?

New Jersey has had numerous problems with water. Some European countries would call it humanitarian crisis. I can't believe no one has noticed it yet.

Still why the fark would New Yorkers give people in New Jersey water? It doesn't sense.

You can really taste the CHUD!

Here in the part of California I live the water is so healthy for you that no one will drink it because of the bad taste of all the chemicals used to purify it. Seems to me that the government overregulation of drinking water is so doing it wrong.

Can they heat it up and give it to babies? Dehydrated ones?

It's like... I'm the only smart one.

fappityfappityfap: As opposed to what? What have they been filling up Dasani and Evian water bottles with?

Purified water. Reverse osmosis is a useful thing.

Ordinary tap water != purified water != spring water.

/has an under-the-sink reverse osmosis system
//turns crappy Tucson water into tasty stuff

Didn't Penn & Teller already do this?

I'm wondering why the hell someone that lives in New York would buy water claiming to be New York tap water. Why not just fill up a bottle at the sink?

well water with sulfer in it. disgusting. when the person next to you in bed on a hot summer night starts sweating you almost wish they weren't there. and then you remember you don't just shower in this stuff you drink it too.

Chicago tap is better
/Flame on

Just remember folks evian is naive spelt backwards!

Can I get some down here in the south so I can make some real pizza and bagels.

/I really do miss NY water and the delicious pizza and bagels it creates

This is not a solution. it is only capitalizing by making the problem worse. Well, lots of problems, really. Like using more plastic. And using water as a status symbol. And getting people to pay for tap water twice, like they were already doing with bottled water.

Have you ever seen a commie drink water?

fappityfappityfap: As opposed to what? What have they been filling up Dasani and Evian water bottles with?

This. I always assumed the Dasani "bottling plant" was actually some homeless guy sitting in an alley with plastic bottles and a spigot.

Well at least it is not Newark water. Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Brown.Br own.Brown.
You're doing a heckofajob brownie

I'd fokin' tap it.

heypete
Purified water. Reverse osmosis is a useful thing.
Ordinary tap water != purified water != spring water.
/has an under-the-sink reverse osmosis system
//turns crappy Tucson water into tasty stuff

You are exactly right. I'm in NYC, and do the same thing. If I do drink it straight from the tap (or when I'm in the shower), the first thing I notice is the overwhelming smell and taste of chlorine.
I've noticed people on fark like to express hatred for people who drink bottled or purified as opposed to straight from the tap, but once you get used to tasting water that isn't loaded with chlorine, it's quite habit forming - and there's nothing wrong with purified water!

Alexei Stukov: I'm wondering why the hell someone that lives in New York would buy water claiming to be New York tap water. Why not just fill up a bottle at the sink?

Please re read the headline and keep reading those last 4 words. It'll come to you.

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I only drink tap water. I tend to avoid filtered water. People at work think I'm odd for filling my water bottle out of the tap and not the filtration system right behind it.

Hey, Aquafina is just Houston tap water. If you're dumb enough to pay top dollar for municipal water then please do so. However I have a problem with the amount of unnecessary waste created from bottled water.

sorickjames: waste of plastic?

Shh. They're making a point ... or something.

most bottled water is nothing more than tap water

and the fda doesnt test bottled water nearly as much as the epa does tap water

I buy bottled water for the convenience, not for the status.

Sometimes it's just not feasable to bring a few glasses of water with you on a long road trip, or out for a jog.

NY has great tap water. Years ago, somebody did a test of a variety of bottled waters with NYC tap as a control. It won every time.

I grew up with it, and just sort of took for granted that water was good. Then I went to LA. Yikes. Then I lived other places with even worse water, including the occasional aforementioned sulfur-tainted well water. Blech.

San Francisco has very good water too. When Willie was Mayor, he wanted to bottle it and sell it. Now if he only hadn't given away the power station...

Clause 1: Accuracy and Clarity
Clause 6: Comparative Advertising

Advertiser: City of Toronto
Industry: Government
Region: Ontario
Media: Television, Internet
Complaint: 1
Description: In this commercial an interviewer was seen and heard questioning the average person's knowledge about the quality of Toronto tap water compared to bottled water. The commercial ended with the interviewer saying: �You are paying a lot more for something [referring to bottled water] not as good for you [as the water you'd get from the tap in Toronto]."
Complaint: The complainant alleged that the claim was not true, and also expressed concerns about the safety of Toronto water.
Decision: The general impression conveyed by the broad and unqualified claim was that, without exception, bottled water is not as healthy or safe as Toronto tap water. While the complainant�s concern about the safety of Toronto's water was acceptably refuted in the City's response to Council, the advertiser provided no information to support the inferiority claim made in the commercial about bottled water. By failing to provide data in support of the claim, Council found that the commercial included a misleading and unsupported representation. Council also found that the representation had the effect of disparaging all bottled water.
Infraction: Clauses 1(a), (e), and 6.

EPA has hundreds of people testing and regulating tap water
FDA has a few(if not 1) testing and regulating bottled water.

do the math

Good pick to use NYC water. Best tap on the world, unless you live on a glacier.

rocinante721: NY Municipal Water is some of the best tasting, treated water you can possibly get ~ very soft Catskill watershed.

I miss the hell out of it

I'd kill to get it where I am now (Delaware surface water. Yum! Chemicals!)

NYC water might be good, but I had the nastiest water I've ever tasted in White Plains NY. It would seem to me that it would be the same supply.

The upper midwest has, by far, the best water I've tasted (though it varies greatly). I live in a suburb that treats the hell of it and I hate it, but MN well water is generally fantastic.

I live in Buffalo by the great lakes, my tap water looks greenish in the summer. nothing beats those Brita filter pitcher thingies

I generally don't buy bottled water. I use a PUR filter on the kitchen tap and just refill some empty Aquafina or Dasani bottles.

vegasj: FDA has a few(if not 1) testing and regulat

According to Penn/Teller they have exactly two people testing it. And they don't really test it as in "analysis", they just go around visiting the bottling plants looking for obvious problems like pigeons nesting above the tanks.

Tap water is constantly monitored for purity and goodness and doesn't come in plastic bottles which leach oestrogen imitators into it.

If yours tastes of the germ-killing chlorine just leave it in an open jug for half an hour and the Cl will evaporate.

Joce678: If yours tastes of the germ-killing chlorine just leave it in an open jug for half an hour and the Cl will evaporate.

Assuming they use actual chlorine.

Chloramine, which is being used in many areas, doesn't evaporate like chlorine.

freakdiablo
Please re read the headline and keep reading those last 4 words. It'll come to you.

The problem there, is that people have gone stupid long ago. Back when they started buying tap water from halfway across the country.

The difference here, is that now it is being advertised explicitly as the same thing from the sink.

These people aren't just stupid, they transcend stupidity to a whole new level.

Captain Fantastic: I live in Buffalo by the great lakes, my tap water looks greenish in the summer. nothing beats those Brita filter pitcher thingies

I use one. Israeli tap water is so hard little pebbles come out of the spigot.

Also, just for style, I recently switched from refilling plastic water bottles to refilling wine bottles with water. I keep about three in the fridge. That's obviously for home use only - it's not really convenient to walk around swigging from a 750 ml. Chardonnary bottle.

ChadManMn: NYC water might be good, but I had the nastiest water I've ever tasted in White Plains NY. It would seem to me that it would be the same supply.

Nah, WP is probably Hudson River nastiness, or else you had shallow well water, which can run to the sulfur-y side around there.

NY's comes from the Ashokan Reservoir. Much better.

optikeye: Do they have vending machines that dispense chilled filtered water into standard size water bottles? I've seen the ones at supermarkets that refill bigger jugs, but not ones for water bottles. If they don't have them someone should make one.

This might be just a little too obvious but you could bring 128/X=Y smaller bottles and switch them as they fill. (X is the number of ounces held by your smaller bottles. Y is the number of smaller bottles you need for each gallon purchased.)

That's assuming you trust that vending machine to actually have some sort of filtering process instead of just dumping a gallon of tap water out the spigot.

Personally, I think it would be stupid to actually put any kind of filter in there. Total waste of money and maintenance costs. Just call it "crisp, clear drinking water" and people will assume it's better than tap water. Maybe a holding tank to let the gasses bleed off if the local tap water is particularly cloudy.

yoyopro: heypete
Purified water. Reverse osmosis is a useful thing.
Ordinary tap water != purified water != spring water.
/has an under-the-sink reverse osmosis system
//turns crappy Tucson water into tasty stuff

You are exactly right. I'm in NYC, and do the same thing. If I do drink it straight from the tap (or when I'm in the shower), the first thing I notice is the overwhelming smell and taste of chlorine.
I've noticed people on fark like to express hatred for people who drink bottled or purified as opposed to straight from the tap, but once you get used to tasting water that isn't loaded with chlorine, it's quite habit forming - and there's nothing wrong with purified water!

Nah, there's just something wrong with paying $2 for a half-liter in a plastic bottle.

came for the penn & teller. thank you.

/exit stage left

Someone let me know what tap pelligrino and fiji water comes out?

I drink bottled water because the water in my place frequently smells. I think there is something in the pipes, and I really need to get a water testing kit. We also have a Brita filter.

Hanford California-

Unless you love the smell of rotten eggs, it's the worst tap water in America

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