<p>I don't trust water fountains, and don't like drinking out of plastic water bottles (it's bad for the enviroment).</p>
<p>So when you're dorming, and you want water, what do you do?
Do you guys boil your own water or use a water filter?
Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think tap water in most dorms is dirty…</p>
<p>Get one of those Brita filter pitchers…</p>
<p>“Clean drinking water” makes it sound as if you’re going to college in Somalia or something. The water will be perfectly potable.</p>
<p>If you’re very particular about taste, a Brita pitcher might make some sense. You can also buy refillable plastic bottles with Brita-like filters. My daughter takes one to the summer camp where she works as a counselor; I get them at Target.</p>
<p>Cup + tap. Done.</p>
<p>The tap? </p>
<p>Why don’t you trust it? Brita works well if you really feel you need one. You can get one that specifically fits in fridge doors.</p>
<p>Since all the ridiculously obvious answers have already been stated.</p>
<p>I propose boiling water fountain water in a tin cup in your room.</p>
<p>One of those metal or plastic reusable bottles fill from the tap or a fridge (if available)</p>
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<p>Ummmmmm? Ever hear of recycling? My dorm, and I’m sure loads of other school dorms, was huge on recycling.</p>
<p>I just go to Walmart and buy gallon plastic jugs of distilled water. Although I don’t drink much water. Tap water is perfectly safe though.</p>
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But Walmart is bad for the environment*</p>
<p>UAKid, there’s more to it than just recycling.</p>
<p>There are energy costs in making the bottle and in transporting it to the store, and from the store to home. Those costs aren’t just monetary; they’re also environmental.</p>
<p>It may be a overkill to treat public drinking water in the US as if it’s dirty or unsafe, but it’s 100% correct to say that bottled water isn’t eco-friendly.</p>
<p>(Also, I kind of agree with StraightsJacket about Wal<em>Mart. But I wish it really were my liberal white guilt that keeps me out of that place. In fact, I don’t go there because it’s always a mess, and the folks who work in my Wal</em>Mart are surly and unhelpful–except for the overly friendly greeters. x-posted with above.)</p>
<p>And I presume you also grow all your own food? Because it requires transportation costs to get it to the store to you.</p>
<p>No, I don’t. But there are people who are locovores–who eat only food produced within a few miles of where they are.</p>
<p>Does the fact that I don’t do this mean I’m not allowed to raise the point about bottled water? Of course not.</p>
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<p>No but it’s flawed logic to fix a leaky faucet while a pipe is burst somewhere else in your house.</p>
<p>It would be. But you’ll have to explain how that analogy fits here.</p>
<p>I think your position is more like saying, “There’s no point in fixing this leaking faucet just because there’s another one leaking somewhere else, too.”</p>
<p>Yeah that’s my position. But the analogy applies because water bottles are probably like a leaky faucet in terms of destroying the world. The sum of everything else you do like driving a car, consuming electricity, and doing everything else modern people do = a burst pipe.</p>
<p>So that means you can’t take small steps to reduce your impact? Just because one thing doesn’t make a HUGE difference doesn’t mean you have to continually contribute to the problem.</p>
<p>Thank you, rge. That is, of course, the point I was trying to make to UAKid. It’s absurd to say you shouldn’t do anything at all because there are some things you’re not doing.</p>
<p>I though it would be obvious to everyone. Perhaps I was nearly right.</p>
<p>Yeah, I try to use my water bottle whenever I can instead of buying bottled water. Mostly because I feel like a chump when I buy it, but also because it does do a little to reduce my impact.</p>
<p>OP, get a reusable water bottle with a built-in filter. Brita makes a decent one, I have one, but it can get leaky if you don’t tighten it like a space shuttle fuel port o-ring. Then you can have potable water anywhere.</p>
<p>Well, yeah, I got that was your point. But I’m in the crowd that could really care less if the world could survive 1000 years longer depending on whether or not I’m eco friendly. I don’t go out of my way to pollute, but I’m not going out of my way to not.</p>
<p>And yeah back on topic, reusable water bottles are a viable option as well.</p>