Bottled water is a scam and Penn and Teller did an excellent episode of BS about it. They put water from a hose into different bottles and told people in a fancy restaurant that this one was from a pure spring in wherever and this one was from glaciers in Switzerland and the people swore they could tell the difference. Not to mention plastic bottles are ending up in the ocean.

The water bottles in the US are made with PET. It is also known as Dacron. It does not leach any chemicals into the water at all. The molecule is insoluble. There are no other chemicals used to make water bottles.

Nah, I use a water filter.

I work in a water bottling factory. We sell so much of the stuff. I don't understand how.
I also just started brewing my own beer. Much more my type of drink.

I've got a tap full of water. why the fuck would I pay for it?

Filtered water from home in a canteen.
Thermos of coffee from home because most places sell crap.
And I drink a lot of coffee.
I don't drink beer or other booze so that's no issue. No alcohol problem, just never liked it.

I dislike bottled water in plastic because of our plastic problem and I also think that I read somewhere that some of the plastics do leach chemicals

Especially the one that eats plastic

I have a steel water bottle I fill from my fridge’s filtered tap water when I leave. When I’m home I just drink the water from the fridge. I only have to change the filter every 6 months.

I drink tap water. I make my ice cubes with tap water.
I rarely pay for anything out of a can or a plastic bottle.
Not so much because of the chemicals, but because I refuse to be ripped off.

Fuck it we are all going to die anyway why worry?

I work in an aluminum can plant. I make beer cans. I run 20 machines that make about 2 million cans each day during my shift. There are no chemicals added to ours. (I can't speak for other beverages.) And, we actually line the cans with plastic so there is no contamination from the aluminum.

I think bottled water is harmful to the environment, especially the plastic bottles, so I use a water filter jug.

I try not to purchase any drinks that come in disposable containers. I guess beer and wine are the exceptions, but always recycle. I get what you mean about bottles being better for the actual liquid inside them, and by extension, us.

Everything is a chemical