<p>I'm always thirsty as a dorming college student, and now since I've started a diet it is imperative for me to consume a minimum of a gallon of water a day. The poland spring gallon jugs are an easy solution but I don't think it's very cost effective.</p>
<p>I use my suitemates' water heater, which he uses for instant foods, but it's not a good idea because I have to let it cool before I can pour it into my Nalgene, and since [the water cooler] is made out of plastic, it's beginning to rust. Not to mention I have to wait before I can actually drink it. </p>
<p>My other suitemate also has a Brita but it filters really slow.</p>
<p>What is the best way to get drinking water in a dorm?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say filters do nothing. They can make pretty bad tap water (heavily chlorinated) taste pretty good. I have one of those bobble things with a filter in the cap, but I usually end up just drinking straight from the tap anyway. It does help a bit though, when I can be arsed to use it.</p>
<p>“I have one of those bobble things with a filter in the cap, but I usually end up just drinking straight from the tap anyway. It does help a bit though, when I can be arsed to use it.”</p>
<p>Wait…what??</p>
<p>Can you elaborate?</p>
<p>I honestly might just drink water out of the tap/shower…less trouble, and costs less.</p>
<p>Use the water heater, pour it in a travel mug, then throw in a teabag.
I prefer to boil water before drinking just out of habit, and I drink ALOT of tea.</p>
<p>^same with my water. i would be careful before drinking from the tap or get a filter. you can even buy those Bobble water bottles with the filters in them</p>
<p>i drank from the tap once and i got really really sick. could not stop throwing up. if u do drink from the tap- never from the hot side. NEVER.</p>
<p>Definitely be careful with tap water. It’s cloudy here and tastes repulsive even with a Brita filter. I end up having to buy water, but get money for recycling. </p>
<p>I remember in one of my dorms someone put a sign over the water fountain saying that it was out of order. A month or so later, I tried it out, saw it worked fine, and took the sign off. Later that day, the sign was replaced, so I asked around ask to who put it there. The RA said they did it, because the water came out way too cloudy. I asked them to show me, so they took a cup and filled it with water. Well, it was cloudy. I told them to look at it after a minute of it sitting in the cup. The water wound up before perfectly clear, since all of the cloudiness was just bubbles from the aerator trying to settle out.</p>
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<p>Wait, what? There could be rust deposits from the water, but the plastic itself is certainly not rusting. And, if there are some rust deposits on the water boiler, just run some diluted white vinegar in there for a boil or two. It’ll clean it up fine.</p>
<p>I’m always amazed how few people know the cloudiness is just that. It annoys me when people complain about the drinking fountains because of cloudy water. Shake it up in your water bottle and see it magically get clear! It’s magic, I promise! -_-</p>
<p>I worked as a bus boy at a wine bar and when people asked for water I’d go behinf the bar and fill up a glass. If the pitcher was empty I’d have to get it straight from the sink and it would be cloudy. I’d always try to wait it out so this would go away because I wasn’t about to bring them cloudy water. But sometime I had no choice, haha</p>
<p>This is dumb but I use an electric kettle and just boil it before you go to bed, pour it in the water bottle the next morning and then boil another one right when I get up and by the time I’m done collecting my things, etc. I can pour it again in the water bottle. The tap water is honestly repulsive, so that’s why.</p>
<p>The tap water here is pretty bad… A lot of people use the Brita filters but to me it still tastes off. I usually buy bottled water and recycle the bottles.</p>
<p>They make water bottles with filters in the cap. They’re pretty cool but again, I’m usually too lazy to take the cap off of something, fill it with water, then drink it. I just go straight for the cup. I’ve lived places where the tap water was terrible though, and a brita filter was really a necessity.</p>
<p>Look up Filterete. As a pitcher it takes a crap load of room in my fridge and is hard to fit under the sink, but it filters as fast as the water runs.</p>
<p>People really go through all these gyrations and pay extra money for something that can be acquired for free from a sink? Where do people think most bottled water companies get their water from? Some magical source? They get it from municipal sources, the same place tap water comes from.</p>