beemerphile1 wrote:
I drink tank water every day that I camp. What makes the bottled water any different?
You know, there is no new water on this planet. It has the same amount of water that it has always had. Every drop you drink has been drunk previously. and recycled.
Think of all the pollution caused by producing those bottles, transporting them across the country and then filling landfills.
At one time I thought I would never waste my money on bottled water. but about9 or 10 years ago I bought a house in Lake Conroe TX as a winter house. The plan was to spend summers in NY and winters in TX but that plan didn't work out. When I was at the local walmart looking at houses I noticed everyone was drinking bottled water, I did not realize why until I moved in and tried to drink the water. I did taste the water in one of the houses I was looking at and it was fine but I didn't realize it had a special filter. I tried using a regular filter in my house but it didn't make the water taste OK, what I needed was whole house filter which would probably cost around $1,000.
When I am home SC I drink filtered water and I bring 5 gallons with me along with cases of bottled water.
The house I am parked in front of had the water pipes damages by vandals trying to steal the oil burned boiler. I ran out of water in the fresh water tank before I was able to get the water fixed and wound up using bottled water to flush the toilet.
Some people like to travel with an empty or near empty fresh water tank but I not only travel with a full tank I bring along extra water because sometimes you never know if you will be in a situation with no opportunity to replenish your supply.
Not only was the water undrinkable at my house in TX, it also formed a brownish scum of bubbles in the tub when you turned on the jacuzzi.
When you travel in differed parts of the country you never know what the water quality will be like at the next place you stop off at.