Where to get water in glass bottles?
 

Our tap water sucks, and bottled water in plastic bottles never tastes right to me, so lately I've been looking to buy fresh spring water in glass bottles, but of course all I can find is water in plastic bottles. The only water in glass bottles I can find is carbonated water. Does anyone know of any distributor of pure spring water in glass bottles?

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Good luck with that. Perhaps bottle it yourself? OTOH I doubt you'll be bitching about the taste too much if it's all that's keeping you alive. You could also get a filter to run it through...

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http://www.finewaters.com/


get ready to sell your firstborn and half your PM's if you're gonna go that route

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Best stuff here and deliver in certain areas (not sure where).

http://www.mountainvalleyspring.com

Or filter your tap water with a Berkey...that's what we do here.

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Not really for preps, just because I want to find the best water I can for a change. All the water I drink just doesn't do it for me, even filtered water from the tap is bad. Our municipality failed to meet minimum standards for tap water purity, so even after being filtered it tastes off.

Thanks, that's just what I'm looking for! Unfortunately not available down here, so I'd have to buy a case online. Mulling over the site it looks like it's expensive to ship, $66 for a case of 24 glass bottles of water! :36_1_25:

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You could try Mt. Dew and Star Bucks Frappaccinos!

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Here's some other places that has water in glass but not sure if they deliver to your area.

http://www.mountainvalleywaterla.com (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino,
Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties - California)

http://www.lipseywater.com (Atlanta)

http://mountainvalleyshreveport.com/water.html (Shreveport/Bossier City)

https://www.eldoradosprings.com/inde...plan&act=plan4

http://www.shenspring.com/products.html

http://www.drinkmorewater.com/store/...PARTMENT_ID=45

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I drank only glass-bottled spring water for many years. I know how hard it is to find.

Mountain Valley is good; I drank that for a long time. You can get it in 5 gallon glass bottles.

Another possibility is Evian. At $2 per liter or so, it's not cheap -- but it might be less than Mountain Valley if you have to pay to have it shipped. There are a few other similar, premium brands.

What I ended up doing was working out a deal with a local liquor distributor, to buy it in quantity, at a significant discount.

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Sorry I can't really help you-- but buying bottled water kind of seems like a scam to me... but it's your money of course... What is 'wrong' with your tap water? Are you ever forced to drink it? DO you own a water filter like a berkey / aquarain or similar contraption? Do you have a filter to take the chlorine out of your water when you shower? Changing the taste of your water shouldn't be too tough at all, there're tons of things you could add to mask the flavor, such as a drop or two of essential oil, but taking out contaminants can of course pose a challenge dependign what you're dealing with...

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Bottled water would be very expensive just to ship anywhere. Lotta weight (the main reason glass bottles are as rare as they are already) and breakage issues besides. The only thing that still regularly is available in glass bottles in the USA is probably liquor and beer, and a lot of liquor is even in plastic now.

(-no beer in plastic that I've seen so far, though I haven't looked. Certainly if it is not a sign of the apocalypse, it should be-)

I'd think it would be considerably cheaper to get a good reverse-osmosis filter and buy new/empty bottles from a local container supplier, and bottle it yourself.
Get a business-listings phone book for the nearest big city to you, and look up "bottles" or "containers".
There's companies that do nothing other than distribute all types of containers, and they can get just about any generic bottle, jug, barrel, box or crate there is for just about any substance you can imagine. They may have a minimum order quantity and you'll have to go pick them up yourself (to avoid the cost of shipping) but the price-per-container will still probably end up much cheaper than places that sell online.

I've mentioned before my own real-world example: I wanted some new 30-gallon water barrels.
Online sites charged ~$40 + ~$25-$30 shipping, or ~$70 each.
Local container distributor had a one-pallet minimum order, and sold me one pallet (twelve 30-gal barrels) for $237 ($19.75 each).
Which ones do you want?.........



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I would get a Reverse Osmosis water filter. If you want to store it in glass, go to a home wine making store (they have lots here, not sure if you have in your area) and they will have 3-5 gal. glass jugs there.

In the long run, it'll be cheaper than buying bottled water.

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Somebody still makes glass bottles?

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RO water is very wasteful. It uses way more than the yield. Distilled is the way to go. And no, don't buy into the mineral leeching idea. Disproven completely. Distill it and bottle your own. Cheap and clean.

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Last time I looked, our local Safeway had glass bottles of Acqua Panna, an Italian still (non-carbonated) spring water. Like this:

http://www.finewaters.com/Bottled_Water/Italy/Panna.asp

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It is not "disproven completely."

Distilled water upsets the body's electrolyte balance.

We had a home distiller. Drank it's produce for awhile. Developed a (thankfully benign) heart arrhythmia, corrected with mineral supplements. We got rid of it quickly after that.

Spring water ever since.

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Do a web search for glass carboys, the cheapest I noticed were ~$25 for a 5 gallon size.

I'm going with Culligan water which I can get at Wall Mart. They want you to buy their Culligan -brand empty containers, which are a bit expensive, over $1.00 per gallon, but once you have their container refills are only 37 cents per gallon.

The Culligan water is charcoal filtered, reverse-osmosis, filter-sterilized water and the best quality/least expensive water I've found (unless I want to start going back to my old lab I used to work at and get deionized water for free, but it's a 100 mile trip to do this so not very cost effective). At least the Culligan water is free of most all minerals and chlorine and fluoride and organics ect.

To get around the initial expense (at least a little) I get the cheapest (Wal-Mart again) brand 1 gallon bottled water for ~ 70 cents a gallon, pour out that water, then just use a few of the Cullen containers to get and transfer the water to the cheaper containers.

So what if I get funny looks making four or five 4-gallon water purchases at a time in the space of 20 minutes or so while I transfer the water out in my car? Don't bother me none :bull-smile:

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I don't really care about wasting water. I'm literally surrounded by it (land of 100,000 lakes). That may be an issue if I was living in LV-NV.

Distilling water involves work, RO does the work for me, or it's minimal on my part with filter changes.

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RO water is not so wasteful with a permeate pump.

Distilled is much more expensive to produce.

One gallon glass containers for $1?

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If you could distill it yourself, couldn't you just can it like you would with food?

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first off, if you are getting your minerals FROM WATER, your diet is woefully inadequate

i'd suggest that you look at what you EAT, not what you drink for MINERALS in your diet

second, several of my relatives live in or around San Angelo, Texas and trust me when MadFrank says the water doesn't 'taste right' it could be something as simple as the WHOLE AREA IS LIMESTONE and that's what ALL the water filters through in that area

RO does not make it taste better

they even use a water softener - which makes it worse imo

so just because you live where tap water is good enough to drink, not everyone is so lucky

GOOD WATER WILL BE WHAT FUTURE WARS ARE FOUGHT ABOUT

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I just had some Mountain Valley Spring water delivered. Theres a company that comes this way once every two months to deliver so had to stock up on a bunch of 5 gallon glass bottles.

They come in milk crate type boxes that are stackable.

Its really expensive at $17 a 5 gallon bottle but the water is great.

We're still using our Berkey for tap water and will kinda alternate the two for drinking.

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