Would you drink tap water to save money?

i think your right but most of the people don't have the same opinion. some they think they are too wealthy that they can't drink tap water or some are scared for their health. for me its just stupid things.drinking tap water for me its normal.

Can you get the water filters that just screw onto your faucet? Or a water filter pitcher? These options would be more feasible to me than boiling water. Most of these filters are fine enough to remove most harmful bacteria plus the "sludge" that might occur in your tap water. If you can't get those then I would boil water to conserve money. Yes it would take the energy to boil the water, but I think that would cost less than buying mineral water.

Of course I live in the US and situations differ greatly in other countries.

I think it would depend on the kind of tap water you have where you live. I live in Santiago, capital of Chile, and tap water is perfectly safe to drink, even for babies.
When there´s a water problem (produced by very bad whether conditions once every 10 years) I boil the water or use mineral water.
5 to 8 gallons of drinking water seem a lot to me. It would takee me a month to drink that

Where I live, in the United States, tap water is safe and cheap. Bottled water is used mostly by people who've been convinced that it's somehow safer or better than tap water. A lot of those people are now going back to tap water because bottled water is expensive and wasteful.

We drink our tap water all the time. We have a brita water pitcher that we fill from the tap and keep in the fridge. I do buy bottled water for work though. I'm a lifeguard and it is very hot in our pool room.I do refill the empties a few times before throwing them away though.

There is arsenic in our tap water, so I would not drink it to save money.

We live in Ontario Canada and pretty much the only water we drink is tap water. Our water is safe here so we really see no need to spend money on bottled water when we can get it out of the tap for free. The only reason we would buy bottled water would be if we were going on a car trip, but even then we tend to use reusable water bottles and take tap water.

If our water wasn't safe to drink i would definitely buy bottled water, but since it is perfectly safe I see no reason.

I prefer and i used to drink tap water and it is not to save money or gas or electricity.i just hate boiled water bcos of its particular smell and taste. Iam using a filter a tap water is the tastiest.

Hi Silverglint, I am very lucky in that I live in the UK and in the area I live in the water from the tap tastes better than a lot of bottled water and I and my children drink from the tap all the time. The only time I drink bottled water is when out but quite often I will fill small bottles from my own tap anyway before going out. Huggles. Ellie:D

I have always drank water from the tap. Here in the states most water from the tap is safe. I never was much of one for drinking mineral water. 5 to 8 gallons of water is a lot of water to buy every day. I do have a water filter Pitcher that I use sometimes. I only use bottled water when going away from home.