regular tap water?

I drink canadian sprnings water when at home, and dasani when I go out largely because of the taste. I prefer how purifeid water tastes. But it says things on it like deminaralized etc. Does that mean tap water is better for your health? Or does it not really matter?

Also, just as a note, I take a multi-vitamin (and while we're on the subject, do multi-vitamins have any minerals?)

Thanks for any and all help! :)

I personally feel bottled water is a waste. I have a Brita and the water that comes out of it tastes as good as bottled water.

I personally feel bottled water is a waste. I have a Brita and the water that comes out of it tastes as good as bottled water.

Well, the financial aspect of it aside. Are there any health differences between the two?

Canadian Springs water isn't very expensive at all. The 18L jug is $4.00 CDN. Not to mention, I like how the water cooler keeps it nice and cold. I only grab dasani if I'm out and about, as I find carrying my nalgene bottle around gets a bit tacky! :P

I personally feel bottled water is a waste. I have a Brita and the water that comes out of it tastes as good as bottled water.


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Without getting into a lot of water chemisty, tap water has a taste to it because it's usually over-chlorinated, and in certain areas of the country, it has more or less hardness (dissolved minerals). All you really have to do to have a safer drinking water supply is put tap water in your fridge for about 24 hours - after about 24 hours, the chlorine precipitates out as a gas and you've got a pretty high quality water that you didn't have to do a single thing to obtain - except run your faucet.

Brita pitchers are good and bad. Brita pitchers use activated carbon cartridges to filter water. However, they can only filter so much contaminant out. In time, activated carbon filters clog and "breakthrough" is achieved - "breakthrough" is the condition where all the pores in the activated carbon have been used up - the ac. carbon has captured all the impurities in the water that that particular filter can - and it simply begins to bypass unfiltered water, if not adds contaminants because of what may be "growing" in the filter now. If you use a Brita pitcher, it should be scrubbed out every time you fill it. Reason? The activated carbon also removes chlorine, so there's nothing left to protect the waters from... growing nasty things. I did an experiment on these pitchers in my college water chemistry class. The things you can get to grow in a Brita pitcher would scare you - unchlorinated water, if not used quickly, can grow some nasty, nasty stuff.

So... make sure you're replacing those filters often - I don't care what Brita says, I'd replace it every 4~6 weeks, more or less, the frequency of replacement of the filter depends on the quality of the tap water supply in your region and how much water you drink. The better the water, the less often you have to replace the filters. And be sure to scrub them out before every refill, and once a month, either stick the pitcher in your dishwasher or put a teaspoon of bleach in the pitcher, filled with water, and let it disinfect the pitcher for 15~20 minutes.

-R

I change my Brita filter every two weeks.

I just buy gallons of water at the store for 79 cents each and when I have enough gallons I refill them for 39 cents each.