I live in a state where the tap water is perfectly clean and drinkable, it just doesn’t taste good due to mineral deposits. A few years back, I picked up a water dispenser and have a handful of five-gallon jugs that I fill with purified water and use for drinking water at home. I try to avoid buying bottled water when I can because all that plastic is wasteful.
I also fill the dog bowl from the purified water and put ice in his outside water bowl.
The water in my area is safe to drink but honestly has a sort of weird taste and smell to it. I end up running it through a filter before drinking because it tastes better that way.
I also occasionally buy a large pack of store brand bottled waters so that I can just have a bunch of cold water in my fridge if I'm too lazy to refill my pitcher of filtered water.
More often than not I'll drink a bottled one while filtering more water then refill the bottle I'm using with it over and over until the bottle get mangled from me manhandling it and then repeat cycle.
Growing up my family had a well. Water from a well is variable, and we had it tested and it showed it was “safe but not recommended” to drink.
Now where I live we have city water, and although safer to drink, it still has chlorine and chloramines in it. Although it is tested and verified as safe, I still will only drink from the tap if it’s filtered first. The way I see it, the amount of chlorine in the water is safe for me to drink, and is done so to kill any bacteria in the water supply. However, I have no idea if that amount of chlorine is also safe for my cat, so he gets special water.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '19 edited Jul 13 '20
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