do you drink from the faucet??
By chiumee
@chiumee (850)
Philippines
July 1, 2010 2:29pm CST
nowadays, purified, mineral, filtered, all sorts of processed drinking water and trendy looking bottles are what we look for to drink. i remember, we use to drink tap water from a deep well. when water pumps came to the market, we receive water from the faucet and drank directly from it. now, it seems like we can't trust the water that comes from the faucet. we only use it for cooking now. we don't drink it directly. now it became part of our daily expenditure. no wonder we have more and more expenses as we also know that we can't rely much on the water supply we have. a lot of diseases are caused by dirty water. and we seem to have phobia about these issue.
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3 responses
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
3 Jul 10
Hi, chiumee. No, not like I used to. I only drink water that is distilled or that is in a plastic bottle at the store. The water here in our apartment taste really good. But, I don't drink it straight from the faucet at all. I may let it boil for five minutes before I do this. I do cook with my water. I also wash with it too.
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@chiumee (850)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
yes. same here. i once preferred to buy a water filter and use it in my faucet. but since my friends with me in the apartment are so into bottled water, i followed them and i don't feel like going to buy another water filter. it's also tedious still waiting to boil the water and cool it down. thanks cream97
@carlynganda (749)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
well prevention is always better than cure..so we always prefer to use the money to buy the purified drinking water instead of using the same money to pay the hospital bills (because we got sick drinking dirty water)..specially nowadays we cannot really rely on the tap water..and even in the restaurants..i use to request for "house water" before, but now i'm ordering a separate bottled water..extra expenses but in exchange of my health safety..
@stealthy (8181)
• United States
1 Jul 10
I live in the U. S. where most places and most of the time tap water is very safe and good. To me bottled water is just a waste of money and a major addition to filling up land fills since a large percentage of the bottles are not recycled. I can't help but laugh at people who are wasting their money and time lugging big cases or large bottles of water out of the stores; I don't understand how they can afford it and it they can, why they spend the money on things they need.
