




the hippie stores i shop at sell more permanent thermoses/canteens for water made of less unsavory materials. usually run 10-25 dollars for something that you don't have to throw out for years and can of course endlessly reuse.





OMG, check it out: http://www.lifewithoutplastic.com
Lena- Im drinking a Dasani right now and never noticed the salt part before! mine says "adds a negligible amount of sodium"
I usually buy fijis but dasani was on sale..





If I have to buy it (in a place with gross water and no filter) I get large jugs. I carry around my nalgene bottle and fill it up wherever, even out of the tap. Horrors!
I would love to find a good bottle with a built-in filter so that where the tap water tastes bad (it's awesome in Portland, in NYC, and some other places, totally gross anywhere I've been near the Gulf Coast) I can have a convenient filter without a giant jug.
Refilling the 5-gal bottles is not so bad, I think, since you aren't disposing of a pile of waste every week. It's just like a big tank of water.





One of the things I get excited about when I leave L.A. is tap water. I never much cared about water in Memphis, but the water in L.A. is disgusting and I drink tons of water, so I spend a fortune on jugs of bottled water, and I hate that. When I was in Montana I got so excited to just drink free (well, mostly) tap water all day long... glad to hear it's good in Portland too, I'll be looking forward to that!
Ha! I remember watching a John Stossel where he went and got lots of ppl to blind taste-test 5 brands of water: Evian, Poland Spring, NYC tap water....I forget the other 2, but NYC tap water came out as #1, and Evian at the bottom! Poland Spring was in the middle, to the amazement of me....
This is only partially true. Both of these brands (Aquafina is a Coca-Cola product, Dasani is a Pepsi-Co product) are reverse osmosis purified water. It's also why they have no flavor--it's just water.Like Aquafina and Dasani. Both tap water.
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We have a well in our front yard and that water tastes so damn good! I hate Dasani and AquaFina. I do like Figi water and think it tastes best. A close second is Evian. My husband says I like figi because its in a square bottle. SO when he asks what I want at a gas station or something i'll always say square water.However to conserve sometimes i will fill up a sport bottle at home with our ice and water which tastes best anyway.





i grew up with water filtered from a volcano (hawaii) and well water(texas), so i just can't get into the whole bottled plastic water thing....
^^I think the only thing to remember about PDX water is that it doesn't have fluoride in it, which means you have to be extra diligent about dental hygiene. At least that's what my dentist said!
Yep, we're moving to Portland in late December or early January. Glad to hear the water is good!
I have to correct you here: Aquafina is Pepsi and Dasani is Coke.
Anyways - I can't speak for Dasani, but I can tell you that while Aquafina starts as tap water, it DOES in fact go through a multi-step RO purification process. RO water is very pure water, with no minerals, etc. Brita and Pur filters, etc take out many minerals, but put back in silver nitrate into your drinking water. Not technically harmful in those amounts, but not optimal. OTOH there are people and studies that claim tap water with minerals (like in Chicago for example) is best for you. There are other sources that say RO water is best for you. Some sources say water flouridation is good for detnal hygiene, others say it causes dental fluorosis. It all depends on what's important to you after you do appropriate research.
Personally, I think people should just recycle more. Unfortunately, having recycle bins in public places is not the only answer. People need to be educated on it. At school and work, we have lines of garbage cans, all with signs that they are either for cans, glass, food, paper, etc. NO ONE ever looks at them as they're throwing things out! John Q Public is either too lazy or too stupid to read the sign and spend the extra 2 seconds to throw stuff away in the right container.
(just click to donate FREE food to those in need...REALLY!)
Just a bit north of here, in North Ogden, there is a well owned by the city that flows 24/7 year round. It comes out of a big spout that sticks out of an artificial tree stump. Anyone who wants to do so can take as many bottles or jars there and fill them up for free. That water is SOOOOOOOOOOO good! And free, too.




I know this isn't for everyones situation, but, you can buy whole-house water filters that clean out the sedement. I have a well, and had to have the pump replaced, anywho, that caused alot of sedement to stir up, and every 2 weeks I change the filter (9 bucks for a package of 2).
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