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[Shazbot]

The question is, where does Playergamer live? He's the one who brought up tap water.

[dwarf_reform]

Just wanted to say that I'm in the central US (Arkansas) and have never consistently drank bottled or filtered water, and have barely drank "city water".. Of my 31 years I've drank virtually unfiltered well water, which probably sends shivers up some spines here, chugging terrifying subterranean water from 380 feet under the ground :>

Never got sick, and of the bottled water I tasted to see if it really tasted any different from tap water (I honestly couldn't tell, but I've got a pretty rough palate), our creepy underground-river water did taste better to me, but that could be attributed to that dwarfly side of me that enjoyed that our water came from the netherworld

While drinking water from any of those places may not be a good idea, I'd like to add that breathing the air in some of those big-city areas is probably just as harmful or worse :> I tend to think that, in this new age of products that're manufactured at the lowest cost point possible, and new medicines made every day, and new science and synthetics utilized every day, that perhaps almost everything is a potential hazard The tube your toothpaste is in could give you cancer, or teeth bleaching strips, or strange tanning lotions or hair dyes, new nail polish ingredients, new additives in food, new chemicals pumped into the air, new pesticides and germ evolutions, underpaid miserable employees flicking boogers into that fresh vat of tofu..

New new new new new new, new stuff that hasn't been around for very long, and with so many new sources its a bit difficult to accurately point a finger when a lump shows up on your x-ray :| I walk by a massive rack of urinal cakes every time I visit the local store, a product which is fully and violently known to cause cancer (only to lab rats in California, thank GOD! I'm not a lab rat and don't live in California!).. Who says that walking by those products every day won't give me cancer

I'll tell you what will give me cancer: the rampant amount of cigarettes I smoke every day Or the plastic-bottled non-spring-water non-purified Mountain Dew-per-day.. Or the fact that I burn trash outside and often can't avoid breathing the smoke.. Or when my fiancee uses the automated windshield-cleaner sprayer and it mists all through my window onto my skin and into my eyes and lungs :> Or maybe I'll breathe in a wayward fiber from this synthetic "micro-sherpa" blanket here in my room that'll lodge in my lungs.. Or maybe that I've used plastic cups in the microwave, or that I've ate food that, while cooking, melted into a styrofoam plate

I sound pretty off-topic from the subject of what to drink to avoid soda, but I feel I'm pretty dead-on.. Mostly saying that, while tons of choices can and will lengthen your lifespan, there are invisible dangers everywhere anyway, and that death is unavoidable I've watched health nuts die at 40 years old and I've watched my grandma drink and smoke non-filtered Camel cigarettes every day up to her last day shortly before her 84th birthday..

To answer the posed question, though, I'd drink gently sugared (or honeyed) green tea And occasionally drink six Monster energy drinks back-to-back, because you will die someday regardless

And if you want to drink water only, you have to change how you think about water, I'd think.. Call it "dino juice", and realize that some of the very molocules in the water we drink today was also enjoyed by dinosaurs and cavemen They never squirted Mio in their water to flavor it, either! Or call it corpse-juice, since for every living person there are at least ten dead people whose remains are essentially still here, and most of those deaths involved water It adds power to it!

[Parsely]

You can't tell the difference between tap and bottled by tasting it. :p

[LordBucket]

You can't tell the difference between tap and bottled by tasting it. :p

For people who drink water, it's very easy to taste the difference between tap water and spring water. "Bottled" water doesn't mean anything. Many brands of bottled water are tap water that's been put in a plastic bottle. If you're comparing tap water in a glass to tap water in a plastic bottle, no there won't be much difference. The tap water in a glass might even seem better since drinking from glass is generally more pleasant than drinking from plastic.

But spring water? Absolutely there's a difference. Especially if you drink it warm. Cold tends to numb the taste buds.

If you don't believe me, go buy a bottle of Voss. Then put some tap water in a glass, and let them both warm to room temperature. If you can't tell the difference, your taste buds are dead.

If you want good-tasting water, stop buying Albertson's brand tap water.

[Parsely]

I didn't say spring water.

[alamoes]

I actually agree with artisan water thing.  Though you might over estimate his funds/willingness to get it.  Oh, and even though my taste buds are not dead, I've tended towards the big jugs of water.  I feel they taste better than the bottled water.  Don't know why, but probably because most bottled water I have tends towards ending up really, really warm, because I leave them in my car.  Meanwhile, the water in glasses tends to stay cold an hour after I pour it, probably because they're in an air conditioned room. 

[i2amroy]

IMO the best tasting water is the stuff that you drink when you are thirsty.

[alamoes]

IMO the best tasting water is the stuff that you drink when you are thirsty.

Oh yeah, totally. 

[Naryar]

Drink diluted fruit juice ?

[LordBucket]

I've tended towards the big jugs of water.  I feel they taste better than the bottled water.  Don't know why, but
probably because most bottled water I have tends towards ending up really, really warm, because I leave them in my car

In a hot car like that, possibly for days? Probably plastic leeching from the bottle. That does change the flavor. Probably not the healthiest thing in the world, either.

[alamoes]

I've tended towards the big jugs of water.  I feel they taste better than the bottled water.  Don't know why, but
probably because most bottled water I have tends towards ending up really, really warm, because I leave them in my car

In a hot car like that, possibly for days? Probably plastic leeching from the bottle. That does change the flavor. Probably not the healthiest thing in the world, either.

Yeah, generally it is stays there for about an hour or three, max a day if I forget it, but I throw those out.