<p>what are you in some third world country</p>
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<p>Sounds like you just moved here from Somalia. Great news for you, we have water faucets where all you have to do is turn and handle and, this is no lie, real running water will come out, and it’s just amazing. The water is clean and safe and a technical miracle.</p>
<p>Yeah the water won’t kill you but I honestly don’t want all the chemicals used to treat the water in my body.</p>
<p>Jesus, people on here are sardonic idiots. If he doesn’t want to drink tap, that’s his choice. He asked for your advice, not your sarcasm. Don’t say anything if you have nothing contributive to say.</p>
<p>Lol yet another classic CC thread.</p>
<p>^Nothing ever changes on here lol</p>
<p>If you don’t want to drink tap water and you don’t want to use plastic bottles i’m not sure what to tell you. Usually i’d just suggest the Brita water bottle and that you fill it up when you can, but you know…</p>
<p>Water filters are too costly especially since I drink a lot of water.</p>
<p>Does anyone use a 2 liter or so electric kettle to boil water? I’m thinking of doing this but it seems like water filters is the more common option?</p>
<p>A Brita filter (or the store brand) is good for 2 months or 40 gallons. You can get the store brand ones for around $3.</p>
<p>Boiling all that water uses a lot of energy.</p>
<p>I don’t drink tap water ever, it makes people sick in my part of Florida and it is chlorinated. I brought a brita grand filter for college because I don’t want to store gallons in my dorm.</p>
<p>You know, if you don’t change the filter on a Brita it can be a breading ground for bacteria. It can be worse than tap water.</p>
<p>I fill a regular pitcher with tap water and put it in the fridge, so I have nice cold water.</p>
<p>By the way, my only gripe about the water in my area is chlorinated taste. My roommates Brita filter did nothing about that.</p>
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Curious, what chemicals are you afraid of?</p>
<p>First world problems.</p>
<p>Boiling your drinking water? Really? Don’t we have…like…water treatment facilities here?</p>
<p>I have a sink mounted Brita filter. If you don’t have a sink in your dorm that will accommodate one, get a Brita filter pitcher. Problem solved.</p>
<p>All water in the dorms is safe to drink. I have no idea what the adversion to tap water is in the US over the last decade. Water filters are nice but the major issue I have with them is that they also remove the fluoridation.</p>
<p>Energy costs are not a problem for me. I just think that filters will be used quickly especially since I am a heavy water drinker.</p>
<p>Water treatment facilities are one thing but it is then transported via pipes which defeats the whole process because anything can be in the pipes. </p>
<p>Besides waiting for the water to cool down, I think boiling would be the best option since I don’t want to constantly buy more filters. Still have to look for big bpa free jugs to store the water though.</p>
<p>This thread is 2 years old…</p>
<p>At my university, there are water stations in the dorms and in the student community center at my school. You just hold your water bottle under the dispenser, and a sensor basically tells the machine to dispense water into your bottle. </p>
<p>For students living off-campus, either they use a Brita filter (what my roommates and I do), they buy large packs of water bottles, or they get one of those huge water dispenser things.</p>
<p>Seriously, what could someone have been searching for that got them to bump a 2 year old thread about water?</p>
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<p>Same place as anywhere else from a water fountain or a faucet.</p>
<p>Most bottled water comes from someone elses municipal water supply.</p>
<p>It is more than fine.</p>
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<p>Well my house uses tap water and the taste of the tap water is kinda like that taste you get off of water bottles that were left out in the sun. </p>
<p>I refuse to drink out of single-use plastic bottles (a teacher once forced me to watch Tapped). I bought a Brita pitcher for my dorm room because it’s a peace of mind thing. I don’t know what’s in the water. So I’d rather have the pitcher.</p>