Here in Sweden we just drink from the sink.
I don't know what percentage of American drink bottled water, but it has become very common over the last 20 years or so. My guess is that a small percentage drink it as their only water, but a lot more drink it occasionally.
A lot of it is marketing. The companies selling that water have made people believe there is something wrong with municipal water. In some cities they may be right, but mostly the municipal water is just fine. In some places you can taste the chlorine that they use to treat the water, and some people don't like that. I lived one place where the water tasted really bad sometimes. That wasn't from chlorine, it smelled and tasted like mud.
Bottled water is also convenient if you are away from home. Like at the gym, out hiking, on long road trips, or construction workers who don't have a tap nearby.Except that one place where it tasted pretty bad, I have always drank tap water.
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The USA has private businesses cleaning water and tends to be the lowest bidder, getting contracts with only a local monopoly on city water. While there are safety standards, quality is not a concern. So, it really is dependent on your area and who you use. Even gross or smelly water is equally safe to drink and clean with.
Zero pride in what you produce but maximize bottom dollar.
It's also cheaper to globally ship drinking water from a few reliable maintenance sources then maintaining a nation or globally tap water. That's how we have Fiji water.
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Not sure…what I see are many do use stainless steal water bottles to refill.
I also see them buying cases and cases of water bottles.
For us…we don’t buy bottle water…we have the best water in NYC … right out of the faucet…here in Connecticut, we have well water…we boiled our water for drinking.most European countries are only bottle water especially in Italy and France, Spain, Portugal, Germany.
Switzerland, Sweden, part of France, we were able to refill our water bottles from the street spring water…. delicious coming from the alps.
I purchase water from the water man or the coin machines by the super market and fill a few 3 gallon jugs with it for 50 cents a gallon. I take that home and put it in a tank with a tap on my counter and fill reusable water bottle with that when I leave the house
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I think bottled water is a regional thing. When I’ve visited family in Washington State their tap water is beautiful and tastes nice. Where I live the decades of agricultural farming & livestock ranching has left the ground water less than pleasant. Plus, it’s hard water and very mineral intensive. We buy large 5gal bottles of water and use a water dispenser/cooler. We return the bottles regularly, which they clean and refill, and collect new ones. It’s worth it for the taste alone.
pretty close to zero.
I will grab one, one in a while, but it is normally in a reusable bottle.
We have a reverse osmosis system for our fridge so that is where we get that water from, or just a glass out of the faucet.
At the station we have it provided for us, they get a pallet load at a time.
We keep it in all of the apparatus and in coolers ready to go.In Germany, also from the sink, and a few times per year, they check the quality... like if anything ever changed :D
In Tbilisi, Georgia - We drink Tap Water as the quality and cleanliness is great.
In China, I buy water, you cannot drink tap water here in Shanghai.
Many of us in US also drink from the local water. I am one of those, big glass, couple Ice cubes and fill the glass with tap water. I do have several travel bottles for filling with water.
I live in Texas so... you'll never see me drinking any tap water
I'm not America but we live in the middle east and we can't drink tap water. We buy bottles of water every week. I travel quiet often to other countries and I never drink tap water overseas either.
I don't buy any bottled water. I have a reverse osmosis filtration system in my home. It cost less than $300 and the water quality is better than bottled water. Plus, there's no excessive plastic waste.
We mainly drink tap water.
We do buy bottled water when we go places, so I guess we spend about 10.00 a month.There’s been so much money app because they want to find good alkaline water. They want to get a good PH level tapwater from a sink doesn’t have much pH level
I don't buy any, no need. Sink, rain or stream (boiled and filtered)
In the town I live in wehave really good water so I drink out if the sink.
I'm from the UK, I don't buy plastic water bottles as I have double-insulated stainless bottles/tumblers.
It varies based on the person's preferences. Not everyone buys water instead of using the tap. The prices vary based on where you live as well.
Here I live drink from a glass. The water comes out of a tap.
Exactly $0.00, which is equal to €0.00 and also equal to 0.00 SEK
$73 - $25 delivery fee + 6x ( $8 5-gal bottle)
far too much. I have a re-usable water bottle with a built in filter.
Probably $50, the tap water here is undrinkable unless filtered and boiled
In the UK we use the tap
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