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I normally drink that Dasani flavored water. Normally the lemon kind but overall I really dont care as long as its farkin water, so I bet you can guess what I voted for!

FTW!

Just because there's colored "stuff" in your water doesn't mean it's bad. Reverse osmosized water may sound better, but it doesn't have the minerals that would otherwise benefit your body.

Are you serious. Water makes like 1337% of drinks that you well drink. You can't make kool-laid with out water now can ya?



Even though it doesnt have minerals (lol minerals) it has a low ppm rate which is even more important. Also is acually bad if theres colored stuff in your water because that could be some sort of bad bacteria like E.Coli or anything else thats worse. Thats why even if you do drink tap water you should make sure your pipes are clean so rust doesnt fall through and you get the point .

Minerals, for the most part, are not colored. Especially with the amount in water.

Yeah, you have to be careful when you drink tap water. You don't just put a glass there and turn it on... you should let it run for a bit to get out whatever crap has been building up in there.

I only use tap water for things I'm boiling, and they're almost always flavoured, so I don't notice the taste of the water itself.

Water isn't tasteless.. it just doesn't have a strong taste.. Even distilled water has a taste. A funny taste..

Our water is always cold.. even in the summer when its 100 degrees out. <3 Mountain water out of the tap.

It's just, Farty, that's the taste we associate with 'nothing', and Distilled water tastes more than plain old filtered water.

No acualty filtered water does have taste but like that "mushroomy" blank taste. Like bitter flavoring.

Well, it's just personal opinion that distilled water tastes more than filtered or 'soft' water. I'm thinking it's kinda 'metallically' tasting.

@Jordann-
Having various green and brownish percipitates in your water after boiling is normal, they're minerals, such as iron, which are vital to your body's function. They also aid in hydration, as completly distilled water actually hydrates you less than tap water, as the minerals aid in the absorption of the water.
The green stuff is probably copper, brown/red stuff iron.
Also, mind telling me how the hell the green stuff could be e. coli, bacteria are kind of microscopic, and unless you have raw sewage in your water system, its highly unlikely that theres E. coli in it. Also, according to the EPA, your water provider is required by law to inform you if your water is in any way unsafe. Heres a quote from their site--


Bottem line, most of those minerals in tap water are good for you, or at worst, harmless. I drink filtered water, but only because my fridge has some kinda autofiltration system going that also chills it, so I don't need ice.

On another note, I dislike the taste of distilled and spring waters, distilled tastes kinda weird and sweet, and spring waters bitter. In general, bottled water just doesn't taste very good to me at all, I prefer tap water greatly. This might have something to do with my city having the "best tasting water in the U.S", according to some random group.

Does water from a refridgerator (not filtered pitcher) count as tap water?

Your late fatalexception. Tap water is directly from the tap thats it! Fridge water goes towards filtered water since most of them have built it in filters now unless your fridge doesnt have one. In that case then it becomes tap.

I can't stand city water. Whenever I lived in the country, we had well water, and it was pretty tasty. Here, though, I can't stand all the chemicals they put in it. I'll only drink bottled water (even filtering that tap water still leaves it taste awful). However, it would depend what type of tap water you have, because there are many types. I usually try to drink more water than anything. In fact, I like it so much I rarely drink anything else. I can stand a cup of soda a day (unless it's a fountain soda, then I can get my daily liquid from that). I usually have a glass of milk or two somewhere along the lines, but the rest is from water. Usually there is no soda involved whatsoever.

I'm hoping that my healthy drinking lifestyle will counteract my simply awful eating habits heh heh.

On the subject of distilled water, you shouldn't be drinking that. It contains little to no minerals, and water likes to have minerals dissolved in there. Guess where they get minerals from if you drink it? Yeah, leeched right of your body.

So you end up urinating your bodies minerals?

Which is good if you take vitamins, because chances are you'll have an abundance of it.

I don't drink soda at all, unless I'm at a party or restaurant. Most of what I drink is milk (ya, I know, it's ironic). I've been drinking water recently though, from my fridge. I rarely drink juice, just because we don't have it, but I'll drinkn most anything except orange juice, for some reason. I don't like most orange juice, but I like sunny D, but that's not good for you. It's on about the same level as soda, because of all the added sugar.

I went back to my relatives' in semi-rural China in 2003 and there was an old fashioned water pump there. I drank raw unfiltered water for the first time in at least 5 years and as a result my small intestines got h4x'd. 'Nuff said.

I didn't mean Chinese-level well water. Sorry, I meant tasty, crystalline clear Appalachian well water.

I live in the rockies. Water here is bleh.
The river water is what we get..

I wouldn't drink our raw tap water. Instead, I drink filtered or bottled water (for some reason, the water straight out of the filter jug tastes nasty, but after it gets put in this big thingy that we have, it tastes fine).

I don't drink water; I prefer to get minerals via. SCV

seriously though, I drink tap water 99% of the time. I tend to go up a lot of mountains so I also drink fresh ice cold glacier water, from the freshness of British Columbian mountains!

Also, the stuff they claim to find in water was probably added by them. After all, they are businessmen, and their goal is to get you to go and buy their bottled water or water filters, which; do next to nothing.

Also, to the guy who mentioned reverse osmosis, osmosis is the process of evening out salt/minerals content inside and out of the cell, to do this it simply moves water one way to dilute the other side.