On 2021-03-15 4:47 p.m., Graham wrote:
> On 2021-03-15 2:30 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:

>>
>> I take water with me when I am kayaking, bicycling or out on the
>> motorcycle, and sometimes when I am travelling in the car, but I fill
>> up re-usable bottles at home.
>
> More than once, when out on my bike, I've had to discard a bottle of tap
> water due to the unpleasant taste. Standing the water in advance has had
> little effect. The degree of chlorination seems to be unpredictable so I
> fill my bike bottles with commercially bottled water.

Maybe you should try a Brita or some other filter, let it sit longer or
even boiling it. A number of places around here sell reverse osmosis
filtered water. You can get 4 and 8L jugs of water in groceries stores
and use those to fill re-usable containers. Buying water in 8-12oz
bottles is an expensive way to buy water, and those are the size of
water bottles that litter our streets..... them and Tim Hortons cups.