For the same reason they watch pay/satellite TV rather than free/broadcast TV, drink  single serve juice boxes rather than mix-your-own cool-aid,  walk around with $100 cell phones on $30/month contracts, and buy music off the internet instead of taping it on cassettes off the radio.   Ditto on using a shelf of tween male beauty products rather than a bar of soap, $50 brand name trainers they'll outgrow in 6 months rather than $10 canvas skippies, drive/wreck $10k cars bought by mom/dad rather than $200 beaters they purchase themselves, get bussed 2 miles to school rather than walk, have $20 style jobs every 5 weeks rather than $5 buzz cuts every 2 months,  and eat McDonalds or takeout pizza every other night rather than cold bologna.

Because the market for treasuries hasn't collapsed.    Yet.

 

Live in the rural with a flowing well and good clean water..the town I think has two pumps for water and two faucets,one titled smooth and the other chunky

Every one is so scared of everything now,  when i was younger nothing was better than drinking out of the hose in the middle of the summer.

Leaving a garden hose connected and laying on the ground is actually a hazard... it creates the potential for cross contamination if there is ever a negative-pressure in the water system... essentially, if there are animal feces, or other chemicals in the lawn, and there is a watermain break severe enough to eliminate all positive pressure in the system, that fecal matter or those chemicals can actually be sucked into the water system through that hose... when pressure is restored, it gets pumped back through the system to all of the consumers.  Mmm, tasty!



Also, "City water" is typically better for you than well because it is strictly monitored (we test ours monthly searching for Coliform, which is an "indicator" bacteria that lets us know if there may be something more dangerous in the water) and because it is flouridated, which helps strengthen your teeth.  It has been proven that people who drink treated water have fewer cavities than those who drink well water.  Our entire water table in my area has a significantly elevated level of arsenic...



<–– Water / Sewer Laborer, and Michigan DEQ S3 Certified Operator.

This, I rock the Brita filter for my Dallas tap water.

Water?  You mean like from out of the toilet?

There is one (1) person at the FDA who monitors bottled water, and that's not his only role.

all 5 of mine do drink tap water

they would get awfully damn thirsty if they didn't

I don't drink the tap at home. Its pretty nasty. I remember when we had our pool put in and brought our tap water sample down to the pool store the lady said "You have way too much chlorine in your pool". Look on her face when she was told it was the tap water was . When I turn on the tap you can smell the chlorine. Currently our pool has less than the tap water. Still tastes fine in coffee or hot chocolate and for cooking, but drinking it alone is not so great.

This. Here it tastes like pool water. It's fucking gross.



Now the tap water in Trinidad, Colorado I can't get enough of that stuff.



 

Mine do.

And no soft drinks. If they drink anything but water its 50% fruit juice and 50% water.

how can water from a hose get sucked in a closed faucet?



 

I buy/drink bottled water out of necessity. Our town constantly has "boil water notices" so I figure it is cheaper to have a few hundred bottles of water to drink out of on hand, and a few hundred more put away in a dark room for emergencies. But at $2.50-$3.00/24bottles of off-brand bottles (we drink approximately 3 dollars worth a week), I find it entirely worth it.

I will however refill them when we have been out of a notice for a few weeks.

It can't, the ball/gate valve on your faucet would have to be open. Not saying it's likely, just saying it's possible. We issue back flow preventers for our residents that attach to the faucet before the hose so the possiblity doesn't even exist, but it's not a likely chance... HOWEVER... it is VERY likely with in ground sprinkler systems IF their BFP malfunctions, or if one isn't installed.



You actually have back flow preventers all throughout your home... your toilet and sinks all use an "Air Gap", which simply means there is a gap between the faucet and the drain that prevents any negative pressure from contaminating the system... the distance the water has to travel to maintain a safe air gap must be twice the diameter of the source pipe (2*D)



The amount of stupid shit we have to know to pass these tests is ridiculous... it's kinda like High School... I learned it all, but apparently the only time I'm ever going to use it is on ARFCOM.

Tucson does have some shitty, hard water.  I would buy RO water and add salts when I was brewing there.

Tap water isn't the same across the country. Here in Florida it tastes TERRIBLE because of how poor our water quality is. If you go to a place like upstate new york it's down right delicious because the water quality is naturally better. Then there are places here in the US where it is not safe to drink the tap water because so many pesticides have been used to grow crops.