Originally Posted by
cyccommute
...I’m not sure why you are comparing plastic water bottles to the taste of lamp posts. .
It's not plastic bottled water I'm comparing to lamp posts, it's the water from many taps, which has a distinct metal taste.
Regarding all your other points, I appreciate the time you took and the thought you put into them, but the bottom line is that I don't like the taste of most tap waters and the tap water from many places I visit on a regular basis makes my stomach very unhappy. On top of all that, I don't like to drink water from plastic bottles that have sat on loading docks and in trucks in extreme heat and I don't like using disposable plastic items at all. I just thought (for maybe the three minutes it took me to compose my post) that those tablets people use for camping might be a solution. Apparently, they are not. On to the next silly question...