Originally posted by karajorma
If your tap water is **** I don't blame you. I wouldn't blame someone in Africa for only drinking bottled water.
But water in the UK and US is pretty clean so the only excuse for buying still bottled water is just to try to look cool.
Tap water in the US in general is clean. Heck, my tap water is safe to drink, according to the state. I just don't like the FLAVOR or the SMELL of it. Let's look up the definition of water:
WATER: binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
Emphasis, of course, is mine. Water isn't supposed to have a flavor or a smell, and mine does. This is wrong.
Second, and slightly less importantly, bottled water is really helpful for monitoring my daily water intake. I try to drink at least two litres of water a day (about half a gallon), which works out to about four bottles. At any given point I can tell how much water I've ingested just by counting the empties on the bar.
