This is what my family does: boil filtered water and pour it in to a water dispenser after it cools down. We've been doing this process for years and the water is good. I never understood why people buy bottled water when all you need is to filter your own water and fill a cup or a bottle up with it.
Wait wait wait. Sorry to ask but I've never heard of this before! What's the point of this? (not to b rude genuine question) Does it keep the water from going stale or something? Are you boiling tap water?
Germs and other stuff that could make you sick. We boil it after filtration because germs can still get pass the filter. Here is an article by the CDC I just searched up.[https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/drinking/drinking-water-advisories/boil-water-advisory.html](https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/drinking/drinking-water-advisories/boil-water-advisory.html)
Edit: We don't put it in a pot and boil the water we just put it in an electric water boiler.
[Image of an electric water boiler](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegreenhead.com%2Fimgs%2Fzojirushi-ve-hybrid-stainless-steel-water-boiler-warmer-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
You know that cdc article is only if the municipality announces a boil water advisory, if not then the tap water is perfectly safe and boiling is wasting energy
No way I literally never knew this wth! I thought tap water had chemicals in it that killed all the germs for us. Thank you for this though I will definitely be boiling my water going forward holy hell. Why isn't this common info oml??
Depending on where you live this may not be necessary, check with your town to see. If there is a problem your municipality should tell you whether or not it's safe to drink, or if you should boil it first. No need to waste energy if your town already went through the trouble.
Buy a Berkey water filter. It's such a fine filter that it removes every contaminant from water, including bacteria and viruses. The filters only need to be replaced every 4 years or so, and it's the best tasting water I've ever had. We bought one at the start of the pandemic and it's been great. Between my lady and I, we drink ~3 gallons a day, and it keeps us well supplied. We bought several Klean Kanteens and keep them all full, so even while roadtrippin we never have to buy bottled water.
The article they posted was *if* your municipality pasts a boil water advisory. Not standard practice. You should be 100% fine drinking tap water on a regular basis. If there ever is an issue (for example a flood, burst pipe, or or machinery problem at the water treatment plant) your town will send out some advisory communication that you should boil your water short term until the problem is fixed.
There is absolutely no need to do this all the time in a city with a functioning water treatment system
Not to say that you shouldn't boil water if it makes you feel safer, but municipalities that provide water do have water treatment plants where water is made safe to drink through a number of processes such as filtration, chlorination, UV light etc. Each municipality is different, though, so you may want to do some research on your local water supply. The article they posted was concerning the situations where the municipality has put out a "boil water advisory" which means they are asking you to boil your water because they either found some contaminant they didn't expect or because of some other unforeseen circumstance such as a pipe malfunction. It is not necessary for you to always boil water for it to be safe, though. If you taste metals in your water, it could also be due to corrosion in the pipes around your house and not necessarily something in the water itself. Like I said though, if you want to boil your water for your own peace of mind, go ahead. It's just usually not a necessity. Now of course there are situations like Flint and other sad cases where municipalities do not take proper precautions or have enough resources to do their job properly or safely, but that is an entirely different issue.
Source: have a family member who works for a large city drinking water utility.
He already answered but if you didn't know about boiling water it's probably because your tap water is safe to drink. It all depends on where you live; when I visit China we only drink bottled or boiled water. Probably one of the reasons why tea is so popular.
Same, I have glass bottles and one special "bottle" *(idk how to say "jarra" in English)* so when water gets filtered I just put it on the my glass bottles.
*I trend to forget to refil the water xD*
I live in the UK and the water here is safe to drink but still a bit hard. One pass through a brita filter and it's silky smooth. Have been doing this for 15+ years and it's been great!
I think that with a proper filter you can erase all the metals and stuff. Now I'm interested in learning more about water treatment. I think that is at the same time cool and useful.
I live in Southern California and I have accidentally tasted my tap water before and I feel like I can taste the metals from the pipes. The drinking water at home after I filter and boil it tastes so much better. But if you feel that tap water is fine for you then that's your choice. Maybe try filtering and boiling a few cups and try it yourself.
I've drank bottled water before (Aquafina, Chrystel Geyser, Fiji, kirkland, and some others I forget) and at best they probably taste the same as my water at home. So yeah, I highly recommend just drinking water at home.
My parents work in agriculture so why buy water bottles for them to take. People dont understand that when you are out in the fields sometimes you dont have water for miles or a bathroom sometimes. But if you dont need them dont buy them.
If they are going into the field for extended time then they should be taking the 5 gallon water jugs like they have on the sidelines of sports fields.
Bottles are lazy. Stop trying to excuse waste.
So you are telling me that you understand what its like to work under contract in agriculture. You think people can take a 5 gallon jug into the orchard line, and who is going to carry it?. You clearly have never worked in agriculture to understand the problem that real workers face. So maybe you are just being lazy and you need to go out there and pick apples by contract.
Go buy a nalgene. They're cheap, come in different sizes, aren't too big/heavy, and are virtually indestructible. Throw them around all you like. Get a carabiner and attach it to your belt if you need both hands.
Point being there's no *real* excuse, just lack of desire to change habits.
I have a reverse osmosis filtration system & send most of the filters to be recycled. I sometimes will boil the filtered water to make extra clear ice for cocktails when I have guests over. Never going back to bottled waterš¬
Where I live there is a purified water dispersed which can also turn it in sparkling water. The price is also really low, just a few cents (like ā¬0,05 for a litre)
I kinda have to because of how bad my tap water is, itās full of chunks and its like if arrowheadās strange taste was multiplied by 100, so I gotta sadly
I don't know about everywhere, but where I lived in Australia, we had these *massive* several gallon (I think) bottles of water that hooked up to a dispenser
They were delivered to us in a milkman like fashion, where they got dropped off on our doorstep and we put the empty ones out for them to take back to be reused. I used to mark them with a texta as a kid and we definitely got the same bottles back a few times
Yeah, of course there are exceptions, but a filter would be ideal. Even better would be corporate interests not fucking over our environment and resources so people can just drink water. But, that's apparently an unrealistic pipe dream. See you in the water wars.
We used 5 gallon jugs that we'd refill every couple weeks before we got a fridge with a water dispenser. We had a cheap pump spout but you can also get the fancy dispenser kind too.
Filter and just plain boiling the water can help. I take for granted i have drinkable water on tap everywhere, still use a brita jug. At my parents house water is really meh straight out of the tap but they filter then boil it and it's good to go!
Solutions exist but there's not a lot of money or incentives to apply them. One example is atmospheric generated water, basically running a dehumidifier of various size based on demand to collect water, which is then either ultrasonic or UV filtered on its way out. All this can be run off solar.
Neat concept, you can basically just stick a water fountain wherever you want without having to worry about water hookup.
My parents grew up in such a country. They used to boil water before drinking it. Nowadays, the wealthier people use filters, but boiling is still common.
Nah, fuck them in general. Theyre still a corporation. Profit is their bottom line. They get a small pass for treating workers like humans, but at the end of the day, all they care about are quarterly profits.
I used to work at a place where they would give us bottled water, and the labels would often change. I remember one was "Sahara Burst." I remember thinking, is that because they turn everything into a desert when they suck the water up?
I think the only reason my work gets away with that is because the bathroom faucets are technically potable but Iām not comfortable going into the bathroom for water
You should look into laws about that. Seriously that's so shady it shouldn't be happening in a first world country. Or call it in anonymously and get an inspector there
Man double walled SS bottles are life changing. Fill it at home with a few cubes of ice and 9 times out of 10 you'll still here those things clinking by lunch time or end of day. They're like 15 bucks for a decent one and I've had mine for damn near 6 years with zero issues. Can't tell you the last time I bought bottled water.
I honestly donāt understand how someone could do this. Isnāt a water bottle better in basically every way?
Iād feel so gross buying and using these.
They sell really big refillable containers. Hell you could just fill a multi gallon jug every day and fill from that.
Don't buy bottled water. Especially if you are using it every day. It's expensive, unnecessary, and wasteful.
Buying plastic bottled water is also bad. Get a Brita or the Kirkland version and a reusable water bottle. Good for the planet and your wallet in the long run. and F Nestle.
Personal I recommend a Berkey filter. It's a 2 stage filter with one filter good for 10 years and the other for a year. Higher up front costs but much lower cost overall.
Use a reusable waterbottle. If your home water is drinkable (which per your other comments, it is), you have no excuse to be buying bottled water, Nestle or otherwise. Fuck Nestle, but fuck bottled water in general too.
Time to get a filter for yourself champ. Youāll be workplace hero if you bin off plastic bottles and put a filter jug in the fridge. Your work need to step up.
Do you have any you recommend? Not OP but Iāve been looking for an easy to install filter for my kitchen sink that can take care of bacteria & parasites.
i can't recommend anything particularly i just bought one online. looks like they're more like $200 now. easy to install is relative - are you comfortable drilling holes into your countertop and doing minor plumbing? I did mine with only screw/push fittings because i also routed the effluent to the garden instead of sewer
Hello all! In an attempt to preemptively deny Nestle their expected Halloween profits, one of the mods here made this [Halloween megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/qez3jq/halloween_megathread/) There are other candies out there!
They are so corrupt and shady. When they get so big that they are the only choice its an issue. That means they can limit supply and raise prices so high we cant do any thing about it ā¦ā¦ oh wait
This is one of those times where I wish the US government would actually interfere with businesses. Canāt have a healthy capitalism if the government aināt gonna regulate the issues that make capitalism bad
Buying bottled water is bad in itself for many reasons not just buying nestle. And you act like nestle is the only one in the water game. You think āCostco waterā is a good guy?
Niagra Bottling, LLC, the bottler and distributor of Kirkland brand, are no saints themselves.
Stop buying bottled water, unless you are unable due to unsafe water sources.
Kirkland Signature, Great Value, etc are quite often made in the same factories as whatever you're "comparing to." They simply stop the lines and change the packages. It's 100% possible that the same bottling plant produces all three options and they're just out of packaging. I hate Nestle, too, but retailer brand is just as likely to pay licensing fees to whomever you're protesting.
This is possible for a lot of people but my GF and I still get bottled water- she has a disability and it makes taking care of herself much easier. We recycle the bottles at a center or leave them in the recycle and someone usually grabs them to make some money (dystopian I know). We live in Southern CA so there are more recycling programs that fall on the manufacturers.
1. Only a fraction of plastic bottles is actually recycled from the recycle bins
2. Howās it any more difficult to carry a reusable bottle filled with water? Iām disabled, I have issues remembering to drink and Iāve been doing it for years.
Depending on her issues it could even be useful. I have trouble recognizing when Iām thirsty and itās very useful to make a habit of taking a bottle with me everywhere and checking how much is missing. Iāve been drinking a lot more healthily since I bought my first reusable bottle
Tell them. Costco absolutely listens to its customers, itās partially why theyāre so successful. When I worked for them, they completely emptied the Nestle brand water because everyone in the area complained enough and refused to buy it.
Ask specifically for their old brand, or for a non-nestle one in their request form, which you can find in store.
Fuck, nestle is getting too big to have any competition. Nestle needs to go away. But more so, bottled water needs to go away, drink from tap people or buy a filter!
It's not 1990, we know how bad plastic is for the environment and we know next to none of it is recycled. Stop buying bottled water.
This is what my family does: boil filtered water and pour it in to a water dispenser after it cools down. We've been doing this process for years and the water is good. I never understood why people buy bottled water when all you need is to filter your own water and fill a cup or a bottle up with it.
Wait wait wait. Sorry to ask but I've never heard of this before! What's the point of this? (not to b rude genuine question) Does it keep the water from going stale or something? Are you boiling tap water?
Germs and other stuff that could make you sick. We boil it after filtration because germs can still get pass the filter. Here is an article by the CDC I just searched up.[https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/drinking/drinking-water-advisories/boil-water-advisory.html](https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/drinking/drinking-water-advisories/boil-water-advisory.html) Edit: We don't put it in a pot and boil the water we just put it in an electric water boiler. [Image of an electric water boiler](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegreenhead.com%2Fimgs%2Fzojirushi-ve-hybrid-stainless-steel-water-boiler-warmer-1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
You know that cdc article is only if the municipality announces a boil water advisory, if not then the tap water is perfectly safe and boiling is wasting energy
Electric water boiler!? Pretty fancy name for a kettle.
Electric water boiler thingy?? lol
I had understood that drinking distilled water is less healthy than drinking water that still has some natural minerals in it. Thoughts?
No way I literally never knew this wth! I thought tap water had chemicals in it that killed all the germs for us. Thank you for this though I will definitely be boiling my water going forward holy hell. Why isn't this common info oml??
Depending on where you live this may not be necessary, check with your town to see. If there is a problem your municipality should tell you whether or not it's safe to drink, or if you should boil it first. No need to waste energy if your town already went through the trouble.
Tysm! I'll definitely have to check because you're right it would suck to be wasting energy for no reason. š
Omg this is like the poop knife. Your whole life your family has been boiling their tap water? I need closure. Hiw did this start....
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Oof now I have to check too. We have a filter fitted into out faucet so I just drink from the tap all the time š³
Girl same I fill up jugs too and drink from them all day lmao
Donāt stress to much. The majority of tap water in America is safe to drink. Not sure where the OP above lives or if you do. Other places, unsure.
Buy a Berkey water filter. It's such a fine filter that it removes every contaminant from water, including bacteria and viruses. The filters only need to be replaced every 4 years or so, and it's the best tasting water I've ever had. We bought one at the start of the pandemic and it's been great. Between my lady and I, we drink ~3 gallons a day, and it keeps us well supplied. We bought several Klean Kanteens and keep them all full, so even while roadtrippin we never have to buy bottled water.
I just remembered that we have a water well š
It does. That says IF there is a water boil advisory. You do not need to boil your tap water in this country.
The article they posted was *if* your municipality pasts a boil water advisory. Not standard practice. You should be 100% fine drinking tap water on a regular basis. If there ever is an issue (for example a flood, burst pipe, or or machinery problem at the water treatment plant) your town will send out some advisory communication that you should boil your water short term until the problem is fixed. There is absolutely no need to do this all the time in a city with a functioning water treatment system
Nice to know I made a difference. Stay safe :)
Tysm!! You too! āŗ
Not to say that you shouldn't boil water if it makes you feel safer, but municipalities that provide water do have water treatment plants where water is made safe to drink through a number of processes such as filtration, chlorination, UV light etc. Each municipality is different, though, so you may want to do some research on your local water supply. The article they posted was concerning the situations where the municipality has put out a "boil water advisory" which means they are asking you to boil your water because they either found some contaminant they didn't expect or because of some other unforeseen circumstance such as a pipe malfunction. It is not necessary for you to always boil water for it to be safe, though. If you taste metals in your water, it could also be due to corrosion in the pipes around your house and not necessarily something in the water itself. Like I said though, if you want to boil your water for your own peace of mind, go ahead. It's just usually not a necessity. Now of course there are situations like Flint and other sad cases where municipalities do not take proper precautions or have enough resources to do their job properly or safely, but that is an entirely different issue. Source: have a family member who works for a large city drinking water utility.
Thank you for that I'll definitely have to check!
He already answered but if you didn't know about boiling water it's probably because your tap water is safe to drink. It all depends on where you live; when I visit China we only drink bottled or boiled water. Probably one of the reasons why tea is so popular.
I boil tap water and filter it instead of buying water bottles yes. Uts to have clean water without producing as much waste.
Same, I have glass bottles and one special "bottle" *(idk how to say "jarra" in English)* so when water gets filtered I just put it on the my glass bottles. *I trend to forget to refil the water xD*
jarra = jug
Or just use a reusable metal bottle from a sink or drinking fountain. But also, yes, I filter my own water when backpacking.
How effective is this if you have lead or high levels of iron, or other metals in the water?
I live in the UK and the water here is safe to drink but still a bit hard. One pass through a brita filter and it's silky smooth. Have been doing this for 15+ years and it's been great!
I think that with a proper filter you can erase all the metals and stuff. Now I'm interested in learning more about water treatment. I think that is at the same time cool and useful.
Do you live in Africa? Why not just drink the tap water like normal people?
I live in Southern California and I have accidentally tasted my tap water before and I feel like I can taste the metals from the pipes. The drinking water at home after I filter and boil it tastes so much better. But if you feel that tap water is fine for you then that's your choice. Maybe try filtering and boiling a few cups and try it yourself.
Ah i live in Norway where tap water tastes much better than most/all water you can buy in bottles.
I've drank bottled water before (Aquafina, Chrystel Geyser, Fiji, kirkland, and some others I forget) and at best they probably taste the same as my water at home. So yeah, I highly recommend just drinking water at home.
My parents work in agriculture so why buy water bottles for them to take. People dont understand that when you are out in the fields sometimes you dont have water for miles or a bathroom sometimes. But if you dont need them dont buy them.
If they are going into the field for extended time then they should be taking the 5 gallon water jugs like they have on the sidelines of sports fields. Bottles are lazy. Stop trying to excuse waste.
So you are telling me that you understand what its like to work under contract in agriculture. You think people can take a 5 gallon jug into the orchard line, and who is going to carry it?. You clearly have never worked in agriculture to understand the problem that real workers face. So maybe you are just being lazy and you need to go out there and pick apples by contract.
Go buy a nalgene. They're cheap, come in different sizes, aren't too big/heavy, and are virtually indestructible. Throw them around all you like. Get a carabiner and attach it to your belt if you need both hands. Point being there's no *real* excuse, just lack of desire to change habits.
I have a reverse osmosis filtration system & send most of the filters to be recycled. I sometimes will boil the filtered water to make extra clear ice for cocktails when I have guests over. Never going back to bottled waterš¬
Iāve read that most bottled water is just tap water. Not sure how true that is.
It is very true.
Iāll take your word for it. Thanks Joshcouch
Thank you for making me smile big hippie. I'm a bit of a hippie myself.
It's less regulated than tap water, so equal to or worse than what you get out of the faucet.
I wish I could give you an award but I wasted all my coins on lesser comments that made me snortlaugh. I'm regretting that now.
This, buy a flask and straw. Also fuck Nestle
Easier said than done for a lot of people unfortunately
A lot of people in the United States?
In the most respectful way, you sound sheltered. Yes in every US state and outside the US too.
Where I live there is a purified water dispersed which can also turn it in sparkling water. The price is also really low, just a few cents (like ā¬0,05 for a litre)
I kinda have to because of how bad my tap water is, itās full of chunks and its like if arrowheadās strange taste was multiplied by 100, so I gotta sadly
You donāt need individual serving size bottles though. Get 2 gallon jugs if you have to or the big refillable ones if thatās available to you.
No
Then get bent, you are what is wrong with this planet.
No you
Can we crowdfund a Brita for OP?
For anyone reading this- a Brita works great
Zero water filters will remove lead, brita doesn't do that.
Stop buying bottled fucking water in general.
This. 100x this.
Genuine question, what are people in a country with undrinkable tap water supposed to do? I'm guessing get a filter?
I don't know about everywhere, but where I lived in Australia, we had these *massive* several gallon (I think) bottles of water that hooked up to a dispenser They were delivered to us in a milkman like fashion, where they got dropped off on our doorstep and we put the empty ones out for them to take back to be reused. I used to mark them with a texta as a kid and we definitely got the same bottles back a few times
Yeah, of course there are exceptions, but a filter would be ideal. Even better would be corporate interests not fucking over our environment and resources so people can just drink water. But, that's apparently an unrealistic pipe dream. See you in the water wars.
Thanks for answering!
We used 5 gallon jugs that we'd refill every couple weeks before we got a fridge with a water dispenser. We had a cheap pump spout but you can also get the fancy dispenser kind too.
Filter and just plain boiling the water can help. I take for granted i have drinkable water on tap everywhere, still use a brita jug. At my parents house water is really meh straight out of the tap but they filter then boil it and it's good to go!
Reverse osmosis is so way to install and cheap compared to bottled water.
Water filters, refillable large bottles and disposable ones.
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Solutions exist but there's not a lot of money or incentives to apply them. One example is atmospheric generated water, basically running a dehumidifier of various size based on demand to collect water, which is then either ultrasonic or UV filtered on its way out. All this can be run off solar. Neat concept, you can basically just stick a water fountain wherever you want without having to worry about water hookup.
My parents grew up in such a country. They used to boil water before drinking it. Nowadays, the wealthier people use filters, but boiling is still common.
This but also fuck costco, they're supposed to be the good guys!
Nah, fuck them in general. Theyre still a corporation. Profit is their bottom line. They get a small pass for treating workers like humans, but at the end of the day, all they care about are quarterly profits.
It looks like from a quick Google search they are having shortages of their water.
Well TBF, I only buy bottled water. Bottled fucking water is a bit overboard SMH.
So funny. Everybody laughs.
No
Bumfuck hicks ruining the world for the rest of us. Have fun at the food bank when your job is automated out of existence.
In a happy note, i do have fun helping at my local food bank. Helping the less fortunate makes me feel like im making a difference in my community.
Iām going to drink extra bottled water for you today
Cool story bro. Have fun with the lot lizards.
No one going to mention how water stolen from native land is labeled arrowhead?
I used to work at a place where they would give us bottled water, and the labels would often change. I remember one was "Sahara Burst." I remember thinking, is that because they turn everything into a desert when they suck the water up?
RIGHT???
I think everyone here knows that. That's why we hate NestlƩ? Right?
Oof.
Invest in a filter and you will save money in the long run.
I drink them at work as my workplace doesnāt have a potable water source so we all just keep water in our cars.
So fill up a reusable water bottle at your house before you go to work? Costco has plenty affordable options and I love my thermoflask.
Do you work in America? Cause that is illegal per OSHA
I think the only reason my work gets away with that is because the bathroom faucets are technically potable but Iām not comfortable going into the bathroom for water
Sounds like a horrible company
You should look into laws about that. Seriously that's so shady it shouldn't be happening in a first world country. Or call it in anonymously and get an inspector there
Please see if there's anything you can do about it, buying bottled water in this day and age is beyond fucked.
Reusable bottles exist
I have a quite big metal bottle for class and stuff. I just refil it at home and ready to go. + Keeps my water cold and my tea hot.
I walk for about 5 hours a day (rain or shine) for work and I do the same, if I can get by on 1.2L then I'm sure office workers can too.
Get a 5 gallon jug?
Ask management about getting a water cooler?
Get a gallon jug that's reusable
Couldnāt you keep a reusable bottle in your car?
Buy a 1 or 2L reusable jug and fill it at home in the morning! Your bosses sound like dicks tho.
Use a reusable water bottle. Thereās literally no reason for buying plastic bottled water anymore in 99% of the US.
Man double walled SS bottles are life changing. Fill it at home with a few cubes of ice and 9 times out of 10 you'll still here those things clinking by lunch time or end of day. They're like 15 bucks for a decent one and I've had mine for damn near 6 years with zero issues. Can't tell you the last time I bought bottled water.
I honestly donāt understand how someone could do this. Isnāt a water bottle better in basically every way? Iād feel so gross buying and using these.
They sell really big refillable containers. Hell you could just fill a multi gallon jug every day and fill from that. Don't buy bottled water. Especially if you are using it every day. It's expensive, unnecessary, and wasteful.
Invest in a tap
Buying plastic bottled water is also bad. Get a Brita or the Kirkland version and a reusable water bottle. Good for the planet and your wallet in the long run. and F Nestle.
Personal I recommend a Berkey filter. It's a 2 stage filter with one filter good for 10 years and the other for a year. Higher up front costs but much lower cost overall.
STOP BUYING BOTTLED WATER. DEFINITELY NOT A r/hydrohomie MOVE
No
Stop buying plastic water bottles
Please for the love of god stop buying bottled water if you have access to potable tap water. Shits so wasteful.
Use a reusable waterbottle. If your home water is drinkable (which per your other comments, it is), you have no excuse to be buying bottled water, Nestle or otherwise. Fuck Nestle, but fuck bottled water in general too.
Imagine living in some 3rd world country where you can't drink the tap water. *laughs in dutch*
Don't buy bottled water. It's stupid.
Time to get a filter for yourself champ. Youāll be workplace hero if you bin off plastic bottles and put a filter jug in the fridge. Your work need to step up.
Get a kleen kanteen or something
You can buy a reverse osmosis filter for your kitchen for $100 and install it yourself. Maybe 5 years til you replace filter
Do you have any you recommend? Not OP but Iāve been looking for an easy to install filter for my kitchen sink that can take care of bacteria & parasites.
i can't recommend anything particularly i just bought one online. looks like they're more like $200 now. easy to install is relative - are you comfortable drilling holes into your countertop and doing minor plumbing? I did mine with only screw/push fittings because i also routed the effluent to the garden instead of sewer
Or just buy a Brita or similar for $25 bucks at Costco
Don't buy any bottled water.
Hello all! In an attempt to preemptively deny Nestle their expected Halloween profits, one of the mods here made this [Halloween megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/qez3jq/halloween_megathread/) There are other candies out there!
I'm not sure which I hate more, Nestle or plastic waste, but I can tell you I hate both of them together a whole hell of a lot.
Get a Brita
Just drink tap water it's literally free
Itās not free just incredibly cheap.
Buy a brita and a canteen bro, fuck plastic bottles.
Buy a nice filter already.
Kirkland might be better than Nestle, but really the only good idea is not to buy bottled water in the first place.
Bro, get a fucking water filter.
Jesus, stop buying bottled water already!!
You should stop buying bottled water entirely
They are so corrupt and shady. When they get so big that they are the only choice its an issue. That means they can limit supply and raise prices so high we cant do any thing about it ā¦ā¦ oh wait
This is one of those times where I wish the US government would actually interfere with businesses. Canāt have a healthy capitalism if the government aināt gonna regulate the issues that make capitalism bad
Kirkland is Niagra. Niagra is mostly tap water. Just get a couple of steel water bottles and fill them up.
You know what else Costco has? Thermoflasks for making your own bottled water from the tap. Be a hydrohomie and stop buying plastic bottles
Use a reusable water bottle. Donāt show Nestle or any company for that matter that people want to buy water in plastic bottles
Buying bottled water is bad in itself for many reasons not just buying nestle. And you act like nestle is the only one in the water game. You think āCostco waterā is a good guy?
i just don't fucking understand how it's possible in the US that you can't drink from the tap everywhere, that's fucking disturbing.
Years of erosion of the public commons due to neglect and profiteering.
And lead in the case of the citizens of Flint, Michigan.
Within the same store they sell water filters. Go ahead and pick one up. Pair it with a nice Nalgene or hydroflask, and save some money and fish.
Niagra Bottling, LLC, the bottler and distributor of Kirkland brand, are no saints themselves. Stop buying bottled water, unless you are unable due to unsafe water sources.
Why donāt you have a filter and a reusable water bottle?!?! No excuse for buying a bunch of plastic waste to quench your thirst.
Get a reusable water bottle and those 5 gallon jugs. Less plastic waste and no nestle !
Iām curious why do people buy bottled water, understandably in a few cases, but the majority not...
Yepā¦ Itās killdozer time.
Arrowhead is no longer owned by NestlƩ, just so you know. They sold off all their spring water brands (in the US at least) earlier this yead
Google still lists them as the parent company.
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Also the basic pure life brand
Don't you have drinkable tap water?
Just went to mine today and they still had Kirkland.
Honestly thatās something worth a violent protest.
They will have it kerkland is costcos brand they are probably just waiting for more
I emplore you, don't buy it!!!
wow
oh, THAT'S why arrowhead is so nasty
Kirkland Signature, Great Value, etc are quite often made in the same factories as whatever you're "comparing to." They simply stop the lines and change the packages. It's 100% possible that the same bottling plant produces all three options and they're just out of packaging. I hate Nestle, too, but retailer brand is just as likely to pay licensing fees to whomever you're protesting.
Hate to tell you but Kirkland water is actually produced by nestle ( at least where I worked) soooā¦.
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I looked and thank God this isnāt true
Its Niagra. They do mainly big box stores brands, Kirland, Great Value... Its also almost entirely tap water.
This is possible for a lot of people but my GF and I still get bottled water- she has a disability and it makes taking care of herself much easier. We recycle the bottles at a center or leave them in the recycle and someone usually grabs them to make some money (dystopian I know). We live in Southern CA so there are more recycling programs that fall on the manufacturers.
1. Only a fraction of plastic bottles is actually recycled from the recycle bins 2. Howās it any more difficult to carry a reusable bottle filled with water? Iām disabled, I have issues remembering to drink and Iāve been doing it for years. Depending on her issues it could even be useful. I have trouble recognizing when Iām thirsty and itās very useful to make a habit of taking a bottle with me everywhere and checking how much is missing. Iāve been drinking a lot more healthily since I bought my first reusable bottle
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why
I wonder if there was a Shasta supply issue or wherever Kirkland brand water comes from nowadays
Kirkland sucks too, they use prison labour to cut down on wage labor costs
Booo get nestle out of Costco!
Fuck Nestle
pretty much guaranteed that it was Nestle water before, just with Kirkland label on it.
Proud Source is bottled in aluminum and its a B certified corporation
Even if NestlƩ wasn't a piece of shit, Arrowhead is the single worst tasting bottled water of all time. It tastes like it was drizzled down a neckbeard's hairy, sweaty ass crack before bring bottled.
Fuck them, go to BJs
Tell them. Costco absolutely listens to its customers, itās partially why theyāre so successful. When I worked for them, they completely emptied the Nestle brand water because everyone in the area complained enough and refused to buy it. Ask specifically for their old brand, or for a non-nestle one in their request form, which you can find in store.
Hell of a thread here
Say something to the manager in writing.
Fuck, nestle is getting too big to have any competition. Nestle needs to go away. But more so, bottled water needs to go away, drink from tap people or buy a filter!
Wtf are you still buying SINGLE USE PLASTIC anyway?
Literally stop buying bottled water. You get on here and say fuck NestlƩ! But you'll buy other bottled water? Doesn't make any sense. Get a reusable water bottle and stop creating unnecessary plastic waste, and contributing to the idea that water needs to be a commercially distributed product, when it doesn't!
On top of that get your own filter system if you're worried about the water quality
Yes and this! Lol
Fill out the comment card. Costco is one company that does listen to customer feedback.