<p>I get all my water from my tap-water filtration system thingamabober.</p>
<p>Read an article from Yahoo! that ranked the taste of bottled water, and the top 5 were from these obscure companies I never heard of. Surprisingly, the well-known companies like Dasani, Ice Mountain, Evian, etc. all did horribly, and I think there was even one that ranked last.</p>
<p>Hmm. I guess everybody has their personal tastes.</p>
<p>PLEASE watch this…
[YouTube</a> - The Story of Bottled Water (2010)](<a href=“The Story of Bottled Water - YouTube”>The Story of Bottled Water - YouTube)</p>
<p>penn and teller video about it</p>
<p>I watched the video. It was interesting and informative, but it’s not like I’m never going to buy a bottle of water again for the rest of my life. IMO, some brands of bottled water DO taste better than tap water. I went to a science museum once for a school trip and there were 3 drinking stations that were unlabeled. I tried all 3 and liked one in particular. The one I liked was bottled water, I later found out. The other ones were tap water and filtered tap water. It’s personal taste, and also the convenience of bottled water that makes it so popular, but I do think that marketing plays a role in this industry and many just like the design of the bottle.</p>
<p>I like bottle water for the “added minerals”</p>
<p>But dont your guy’s tap water taste metallic and crappy?</p>
<p>The tap water in my city tastes fine. It just tastes a tiny bit “metallic”, like you said. Other than that, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. I usually boil tap water, let it cool, and pour it into a reusable water bottle. Sometimes, I’ll get bottled water.</p>
<p>why do you boil your tap water? </p>
<p>My tap tastes OK in my city, but I spent a small chunk of my life living in Kansas and we got our water out of an underground well. It tasted like dirt… We bought a lot of bottled water there. </p>
<p>we have a water cooler now though.</p>
<p>I usually stick with Poland Spring but once in a while I’ll indulge with a Metromint or Archer Farms flavored water, like spearmint. </p>
<p>The worst is when stores or organizations give away free water bottles with their logo on it as some sort of promotion or giveaway; it always tastes terrible. I don’t know how they make it so bad.</p>
<p>We boil it to kill bacteria, just in case there are any. Better safe than sorry, plus I can make tea with the boiled water when it’s still hot. When it’s cool, I can just bottle it up for school the next day.</p>
<p>water is so plain, yet it’s one of the most important compounds for our existence.</p>
<p>i find it utterly fascinating.</p>