What is your favorite bottled water?

i buy the cheapest 16.9 oz plastic bottle i can find, drink it, and then re-fill it dozens of times with good ol' bahstin tap water...

I refill my 5 gallon bottles at the local evil supergiant megalowmart store...

16.9 is an odd size for a water bottle.

Rockhead? Is your tap water undrinkable or just unpalatable? To schlep several 5 gallon water bottles back and forth from home to store seems a pain in the tuchus....

I am a bumpkin.

my tap is tied to my well.

and all the corn farmers have ruined what was already suspect water...

my birdbath yields an iron layer once a month.

the house brand of this from a Canadian pharmacy



in the alternative I use this with plain tap water or still bottled water from the same pharmacy as the citrus flavoured water


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I love citrus.

yep... 16.9 oz = half a liter.

i always grab a couple at the local 5k, guzzle 'em down, and take 'em home...

It's a Polish mineral water that comes in 1.5L bottles (flat or carbonated).

I use Brita filters for NYC tap water. As a kid, lived in Inwood, upper Manhattan. Tap water was delicious in our apartment, and even better in my Grandmother's place one block away. (Of course, my Grandma was an exceptional cook.) When I lived in Brooklyn, the water was vile.

When I first moved into my present apartment in Queens the water was fine. Over the years it's been fouled with strong chlorine smell The filter takes care of that problem. On the go, I carry a 32 oz steel water bottle. At home I keep bottled water-24 pack of whatever was on sale , Nestle. Just for emergencies.

Gerolsteiner first, Apollinaris next, San Pellegrino after that; they're all 'con gas', all have a fair amount of minerals - I've a link for all that that I'll dig up. When I drink mineral water, I never have any leg/foot cramps - it's sort of similar to eating your bananas re potassium et al. I'm not a big pill taker, rather have my vitamins and minerals from food/liquids.

I'm not interested in sweet water, except that sometimes when I add a bunch of squeezed lime juice to tap water I'll add a half tsp of sugar.

For walking New York, I'd probably use tap water, but I don't know the state of the water system there.

What I now hate (didn't used to) is any Schweppes product, like tonic water. Gahhhhh.

Ah, here are a couple of links one can chase around:
http://www.mineralwaters.org/
http://www.finewaters.com/bottled_water/germany/apollinaris.asp

An interesting link - re magnesium
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2007/feb2007_report_water_02.htm

Different waters for different folks, eh?

Adds, for ordinary water I use the tap water here. It needs filtering, and I even have the filter. What I need is a new faucet to add the filter onto. That's on the wish list.

I dislike/hate mineral water especially sparkling. Can't stand the evil bitterness.

New York City usually gets very good reviews in terms of municipal water supply. It ranks 14th place out of 100. Not bad:

http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/rating-big-city-water

evil bitterness.. grins.

I drink filtered tap water. If I want to take water with me somewhere, I fill a bottle with water from that tap.

I find the unfiltered water from my tap almost unpalatable. We get a yearly water analysis from our local government, and while the levels on some things, like lead, are not considered "unsafe", they are still too close to that level to make me feel comfortable. Filtering the tap is an easy solution.