I do buy by the gallon, 3 gallon bottles. My town has bad tasting water, so almost everyone is buying water or has a reverse osmosis filter system. The town water has a low and legal amount of sulfides in the water that people can taste.
It’s more efficient/convenient if you can find a water dispenser and get like a a couple 2 gallon or just a 5 gallon jug to refill instead of buying those prefilled plastic gallon jugs over and over. You can get ones with a spigot to refill your water bottle or glass/cup/whatever with easily.
Apparently, some people can't taste copper. In my experience, if it's enough to create green discoloration, you can taste it... If you're able to taste copper, that is.
Not to mention it comes out cold and I love that feature. I've got my insulated bottle, cold water with a straw. I never fear I'm dehydrated at the Dr. I drink so much water this way!
When I was staying in Mexico for a few months, the bottles were convenient for the bathroom or whenever we had problems having gallons delivered. Our delivery guy skipped some weeks without explanation, and boiling with a stove isn’t viable in every situation when traveling. Would have picked up a UV bottle, had I known about them, since the biggest problem with the water supply is microorganisms. Using something like a Britta, without “adventure mode” filters will still get you sick.
I drink my tap water, but I buy water bottles just to have for convenience. My local grocery store has store brand water bottles 28 for ~$3.50, and the same store has the self 5 gallon refill section that’s like $7-8 for 5gallons. A 5 gallon jug is 38 bottles of water. I can totally see people choosing the off brand bottled water.
Ahh. That makes more sense. I’ve never done it, only saw the signs. Well if you’re like me and don’t pay attention, then I can see people buying the bottled water lol.
when bottle water cases go on sale this is true, gallon water never goes on sale, I've been buying gallon water for a decade (not many we use 3 gallons a week for tea and coffee)
I've never seen it cheaper than the 5 gallon jugs where you just refill them at the store. It's usually under 50 cents a gallon for those. That is less than half the normal price for 20 oz bottles.
Because they are weak and can't hold up gallon jugs. I have to carry the 50 pack of water from the cart to the cab and then into their house onto the counter. I can't tell you how weird it is to haul all of my groceries (duh) and like 20 other people who are lazy, old or disabled or some combo of the three.
This. I never bought water until I moved to my new house. Horrible rusted water. No filters have worked. So, I’ve been filing up the water at a grocery store. Way cheaper than bottled water.
Can almost guarantee you reverse osmosis will work. About $200 for the set, and it takes up a bit of space, but filter replacements are around $50 a year after the fact. Take a look. More work than a basic tap filter or pitcher to setup, but once it's done, you'll love it.
I think you’re thinking of a water softener? Reverse osmosis ain’t that. You would not want to shower with RO water because the filters process it pretty slowly and for every 1 gallon of clean water, they reject about 3-4 gallons down the drain depending on system efficiency.
You don’t want to use reverse osmosis as your primary water source as it takes a long time to filter the water and you lose some in the process. You are thinking of a water softener.
I did this for a few years due to well water being terrible. A reverse osmosis filter system absolutely fixed my issue and makes great water. It beats hauling those water bottles around. Id bet my right arm that RO filter system would solve your problem for $180 and you’ll never haul another bottle again. The install is pretty easy if you’re even a little bit handy.
I'd love a link to a RO system that is that cheap. We looked into having one installed at our rural house where our well water was contaminated with all types of nasty stuff and it was going to be thousands of dollars and we would've had to build on an addition just to house it, as the system could not be installed outdoors and was quite large. We ended up installing an inline UV light filtration system instead.
I stopped dating someone because he used individual Dasani water bottles for everything. Said it was sooo much work to get to the water store (or any water station outside a reputable grocery store??) that this was his best option I just found it so so so wasteful and lazy.
I'm not a bottled water connisuer by any stretch but Dasani is notably the worst tasting bottled water, I would sooner buy a bottle of absolutely anything else in a vending machine. Gonna say you dodged a bullet on brand choice alone, let alone the water bottle aspect.
Seriously tho!!! I would have accepted store brand cheap water bottles over Coca Cola tap water, give me a break. He thought he was so smart because he used to be a plumber and “doesn’t trust residential pipes” what a clown, how do you think the water gets bottled..
Seriously, not only does it taste disgusting but by some black magic I swear it makes you thirstier after you drink it. Dasani ought to be criminalized.
She reminds me of this vp at work who acted shocked I was drinking from bottled water, yapping about how bad for the environment it was. This same person jetted off dozens of times per year to go skiing.
He lives somewhere where we ALL get water delivery , lots of us are on a well or have huge water tanks that get refilled. Or we have multiple water stores/stations. He honestly just came off willfully spiteful against environmental advocacy.
I live in an area where tap is safe but tastes pretty bad. Before under sink filters became more affordable a lot of people in my area would get those stand alone water coolers with 5 gallon jugs. You could refill them cheap at the grocery store machine, or some got water delivery services. With filters getting cheaper I don’t see as many get water delivery trucks around.
This. Or a friendly neighbor with a higher quality well and plumbing. But this gets cumbersome with the logistics of lugging it to and fro. Making a water run was a weekly, 4 hour chore in my house growing up. We used large sports team Gatorade containers
Grandparents still get bottled water by the pallet. In hindsight, sort of hilarious when the fact you have bottled water is "bourgeois" or "made-it/life goals" when you can afford to just do that.
And yes they have a $350 Brita on the kitchen sink, and a 6k Collagen water softener. It still tastes like shit compared to the "plastic water". It only serves to make it safe to wash your body and dishes with without you smelling metallic or like you just went to the lake.
Growing up we had a water cooler and got I think deliveries of the big 5 gallon jugs. Delivery guy would pick up the empties on the next delivery, too.
That's what we did when I lived on a farm growing up. The well water wasn't terrible, but it was such hard water it wasn't all that good for drinking/cooking. It was fine for laundry and showering for the most part.
I know a friend of mine whose family who had a farm near the one we had eventually installed some big fancy filtration system for their farmhouse because of the hard well water.
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u/zzctdi 27d ago
Filtered water by the gallon at the grocery store, reuse containers. Pennies on the dollar vs individual bottled water.