<p>Your thoughts.</p>
<p>Depends on what kind of space is available. If there is no storage for bottled water cases, the Brita filter is probably better. Either one is good, though since I go to school in the same city as where home is, I can drink the tap water straight; if I had gone to a school in any other state I would have needed filtered/bottled water because Cincinnati has pretty decently well filtrated water from the tap.</p>
<p>Brita. </p>
<p>Who needs to kill the earth? Just get the skinny one and refill it every few days. That’s what I did. Plus it’s a heck of a lot cheaper.</p>
<p>I agree with a water filter, however I don’t know that Brita has a special advantage over other brands. </p>
<p>Here’s a comparisson I found from the first google result. [Water</a> Filter Comparisons & Reviews](<a href=“http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php]Water”>http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php) </p>
<p>I think Aquasana seems best from that review.</p>
<p>However, the links on that site seem to be affiliate links, so you might want to take it with a bit of skepticism.</p>
<p>I bought a filter and a re-fillable water bottle instead. At home I have to use bottled water because we can’t use out tap water, and I think I’ve doen enough damage. Plus, a filtration system - even with the realtively expensive filters - are going to end up cheaper than bottled water if you drink half as much water as I do (granted, that’s a lot).</p>
<p>Filter…but not Brita because it’s more expensive. Pur is a good option.</p>
<p>I’m bringing a Brita pitcher and one or two reusable water bottles for soda, extra water to take to class, etc. At home I drink straight from the tap but I feel a little weary about doing that at school.</p>
<p>^ Is there a reason you don’t want to drink the tap water at your school?</p>
<p>I know that I don’t drink it at mine because it’s city water…so all I can taste when I drink it is chlorine because I’m used to well water.</p>
<p>^ I don’t have any real reason for it, I’d just feel weird taking water from the bathroom sink in the communal bathroom or whatever.</p>
<p>I would wait until you get to school and have tasted the water to buy one. I drink filtered at home because our city water is awful, so I bought a filtered pitcher for school. I used it the first week and then never used it again. We have water fountains all over campus, including the dorms, so I just bought a reusable water bottle (most people fare well with a Camelbak bottle or a Nalgene) and filled it with water from the fountain on my floor. Tastes fine to me. I drink tons of water, anyway (100+ ounces a day, easy, and that’s on days I don’t work out), so I was refilling my pitcher so often it wasn’t even worth it. If there are no water fountains around, though, I can understand how it would be weird to fill up your bottle in the sink in the hall bathroom. But I would hold off until you’re at school to get a pitcher, so you don’t waste your money.</p>
<p>Bottled…because I’m lazy and it’s easier to grab the bottles when you leave.</p>
<p>Brita pitcher all the way</p>
<p>The water at Stanford was surprisingly good. I live on an undrinkable well and so I am spoiled by my favorite variety of bottled water; I am sensitive to the odd taste of tap water. Well, at Stanford it wasn’t that noticeable - but getting water from the bathroom sink is weird, so I still bought a filter. Not to mention it wasn’t very expensive.</p>
<p>Your tap water might be fine to drink alone. But otherwise, a pitcher/filter and reusable bottle(s). Replacement costs are much less than buying a case of water every week, and why fill up a landfill with plastic bottles? They’re extremely wasteful, or at least an incredible overuse of resources and money. Brita even has a program to recycle the old filters.</p>
<p>For those taking a brita filter 0
Hopefully your campus doesn’t have any construction work happening during this and next year. Some days you will have yellow water.</p>
<p>I’m taking a Brita Filter, simply because I would feel gross drinking water straight from the bathroom sinks - even though I’d be drinking the exact same water if I had a sink in my room. Silly, I know, but they aren’t THAT expensive…at least compared to, say, a college education :P</p>
<p>Wow, people are really this high maintenance?</p>
<p>all tap water in the US is safe to drink.</p>
<p>but i only drink bottled water because a) its the most convenient and portable, and b) idgaf about the environment.</p>
<p>“Wow, people are really this high maintenance?”</p>
<p>The water in Ann Arbor is really good, so you probably won’t meet many people doing that here, but I’ve lived in some places where the tap water tasted really bad, and we always used water filters there.</p>
<p>I hate the taste of tap water, no matter where it comes from, even after it’s been filtered and boiled. I’m not buying bottled water, but not the useless tiny bottles. I’m buying a large 2 gallon water jug, using a reusable bottle/cup, which will last me like a month</p>