I’m picky about what water I put into motorcycle batteries or cooking/coffee pots/drinking. Distilled in the first, purified/reverse osmosis in the latter.
My dog seems to prefer the latter after I tried her with it.
Tap water here tastes OK and is rated “excellent” by the state, but sure leaves a lot of white residue (mineral crap) if it boils away. And after all these years has probably calcified my bladder and prostrate.
@phendrick I use water from the local water store for my kettle to keep it free of mineral build up.
For regular drinking water it’s out of my refrigerator, which has a filter.
Having had horrendous giardia infections a few times, I am concerned about the water I drink. Taking Flagyl is not pleasant. I prefer filtered or bottled, but don’t go crazy if tap is the only thing available. You can get it from eating salad if the person preparing it has the infection and handled the greens, but that doesn’t stop me from eating salad when I go out for a meal.
I’m not picky about taste but the water at the schools I went to had visible flakes in it and made me vomit after about 20 minutes. I have a pretty basic under-sink filter now and it’s fine.
My girlfriend is from Argentina and refuses to drink anything except bottled water. It’s hard to blame her, but I don’t get the people who grew up in my densely-populated city and are the same way.
@tohar1 I inadvertently drank the water in Mexico, Thailand, and India. And I am still here.
In Thailand, I went to the hotel nurse and told her I had three symptoms. She gave me four subscriptions, an extra one for a symptom I had but did not mention. Oh, and she was reaching for the bottles before I finished my first sentence.
I think she something in Thai. Probably, “dumb weak tourist” or similar.
@hchavers@tohar1 .
People who will totally avoid the local water often forget and have ice in their drinks. Also the water that they use to rinse your salad is the same water you would have been drinking.
When we went to Machu Picchu in Peru everybody in the group of eight except my wife and I ended up with some sort of nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea issue. I don’t know if it’s because we camped as much as we did or we just have high resistance but neither of us had any problem.
@chienfou@hchavers@tohar1 What were the subscriptions for, travel magazines? But seriously, that’s one of my worst fears. I only remember being that sick once, from bad ham on a Papa John’s pizza. Needless to say, I haven’t eaten there since!
@hchavers@tohar1 When my daughter was in Mexico for a month as a short-term cultural exchange student, she took along several things that she expected to need for GI issues. When the Mexican woman running the hostel saw her pull them out, she said “No, I have something better.” The local remedy, which proved effective, was a couple of limes’ worth of juice in a glass of cold water.
Not too uptight, as long as it has flavor in it. If not, it has to be ice cold for me to gag it down. The only bottled water I’ve tried that’s tolerable without flavor added was Fiji – i guess it has the right minerals or something – but I’m not paying that much on a regular basis, so flavor packets it is!
@ircon96
Same here. I use those packets designed for half liter bottles to flavor a half GALLON of water at a time. Those are sufficiently sweet and flavorful to make the ensuing liquid palatable.
@chienfou That’s true, any bit of flavor helps, and some of those flavor packets are intense! I’m currently addicted to Sonic limeade packets & those sure do pack a punch – almost pure citric acid! Very refreshing. Lol
We have a brita tank in the fridge that barely gets used. I usually just grab a glass from the faucet if I’m wanting water at any point. Grew in a split family that had both well and city waters so no flavor issues for me. It all sucks
It needs to taste good at room temperature. Also, no floaties.
@yakkoTDI I liked floaties when i was a kid… They were yummy!
I’m picky about what water I put into motorcycle batteries or cooking/coffee pots/drinking. Distilled in the first, purified/reverse osmosis in the latter.
My dog seems to prefer the latter after I tried her with it.
Tap water here tastes OK and is rated “excellent” by the state, but sure leaves a lot of white residue (mineral crap) if it boils away. And after all these years has probably calcified my bladder and prostrate.
@phendrick switched to AGM batteries in the motorcycles so no more topping off. Distilled water only in the radiators.
@phendrick I use water from the local water store for my kettle to keep it free of mineral build up.
For regular drinking water it’s out of my refrigerator, which has a filter.
@phendrick Wait, your bladder is prostrate? Is there anything they can do for that?
@ircon96 @phendrick Good thing it’s not standing at attention, that would be painful.
RO at home but tap water most other places
As long as it doesn’t ruin my coffee.
Having had horrendous giardia infections a few times, I am concerned about the water I drink. Taking Flagyl is not pleasant. I prefer filtered or bottled, but don’t go crazy if tap is the only thing available. You can get it from eating salad if the person preparing it has the infection and handled the greens, but that doesn’t stop me from eating salad when I go out for a meal.
Plastic bottles water has microplastics!
@damjadi yup. And xenoestrogens.
I’m not picky about taste but the water at the schools I went to had visible flakes in it and made me vomit after about 20 minutes. I have a pretty basic under-sink filter now and it’s fine.
@brennyn corn flakes, frosted flakes, what flakes are we talking about, because right now that sounds pretty rad.
@Colinisok Unknown small white flakes, smelled terrible, and other kids would ignite it with a Bic lighter for amusement.
@brennyn @Colinisok
My girlfriend is from Argentina and refuses to drink anything except bottled water. It’s hard to blame her, but I don’t get the people who grew up in my densely-populated city and are the same way.
I bought a filter when I hiked the Himalayans.
“Montezuma’s Revenge” anyone? A buddy of mine found out the hard way when he visited Mexico one time…“Don’t Drink The Water!”
@tohar1 I inadvertently drank the water in Mexico, Thailand, and India. And I am still here.
In Thailand, I went to the hotel nurse and told her I had three symptoms. She gave me four subscriptions, an extra one for a symptom I had but did not mention. Oh, and she was reaching for the bottles before I finished my first sentence.
I think she something in Thai. Probably, “dumb weak tourist” or similar.
@hchavers @tohar1 .
People who will totally avoid the local water often forget and have ice in their drinks. Also the water that they use to rinse your salad is the same water you would have been drinking.
When we went to Machu Picchu in Peru everybody in the group of eight except my wife and I ended up with some sort of nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea issue. I don’t know if it’s because we camped as much as we did or we just have high resistance but neither of us had any problem.
@chienfou @hchavers @tohar1 What were the subscriptions for, travel magazines?
But seriously, that’s one of my worst fears. I only remember being that sick once, from bad ham on a Papa John’s pizza. Needless to say, I haven’t eaten there since! 
@hchavers @tohar1 When my daughter was in Mexico for a month as a short-term cultural exchange student, she took along several things that she expected to need for GI issues. When the Mexican woman running the hostel saw her pull them out, she said “No, I have something better.” The local remedy, which proved effective, was a couple of limes’ worth of juice in a glass of cold water.
Straight tap water
I don’t know if I turned out Great, but hose water/tap water is fine.
Not too uptight, as long as it has flavor in it. If not, it has to be ice cold for me to gag it down. The only bottled water I’ve tried that’s tolerable without flavor added was Fiji – i guess it has the right minerals or something – but I’m not paying that much on a regular basis, so flavor packets it is!
@ircon96
Same here. I use those packets designed for half liter bottles to flavor a half GALLON of water at a time. Those are sufficiently sweet and flavorful to make the ensuing liquid palatable.
@chienfou That’s true, any bit of flavor helps, and some of those flavor packets are intense! I’m currently addicted to Sonic limeade packets & those sure do pack a punch – almost pure citric acid! Very refreshing.
Lol
We have a brita tank in the fridge that barely gets used. I usually just grab a glass from the faucet if I’m wanting water at any point. Grew in a split family that had both well and city waters so no flavor issues for me. It all sucks