Recommend GALLON size water bottle?

[Pinoikoi]

I am looking for a BPA free or Stainless GALLON size water bottle. Many I have seen have a spigot for a cup... I actually need one that has a sports top (or something similar).. I am supposed to be drinking a gallon a day, but at school the water is AWFUL, and I don't have a thermos this size, so.. I haven't been drinking enough

We have an REI and a Bed Bath Beyond, and Sportsman Warehouse? Might have some other places that I am not thinking of?

[AllyRae]

Could you just get a couple smaller ones and store them in the fridge or someplace at school? I have a gallon jug of water right next to me and it's fairly heavy and I think it'd get fairly cumbersome to have to lift it to drink....

[Pinoikoi]

I am not opposed to getting say, 2 half gallon ones, but I don't want to have to tote too many back and forth to school every day.. plus, is it cheaper/same amount of money to buy two half gallons as 1 gallon? There is that issue, also.

[SophieAnn]

Look at camping stores, hiking stores, running stores.

I am thinking of places like Running Room, Running Works, Mountain Equipment Co-op (but these are all in Canada of course).

I checked KleanKanteen and the largest they have with a sport-top is 40oz. They do have a half-gallon (64 oz) in the wide-mouth but it doesn't have a sport-top option (only loop-tops).

Carrying around a gallon of water would be very very heavy! Maybe you could drink some water before you leave the house, and more when you get home so that you only need to carry a half gallon?

Typical recommended water intake is 8 glasses... which is 64 oz. (or 2L or half-gallon)..... I just can't imagine!

Now that I think more about it, the only portable gallon container I can think of is a hydration pack (backpack with water inside, with a straw that comes up over your shoulder to your lips). Brand names like: Platypus, Camelbak or High Sierra. Not sure about BPA - you'd need to visit the company sites.

Example:
http://www.amazon.com/CamelBak-Blowf...ef=pd_sbs_sg_9

[Pinoikoi]

Originally Posted by SophieAnn

Typical recommended water intake is 8 glasses... which is 64 oz. (or 2L or half-gallon)..... I just can't imagine!

I am pregnant and have chronic utis.. this is part of my midwife's plan of attack I guess you could say. It is a LOT of water for me, though.. I barely made it by bedtime last night to the gallon mark.

[SophieAnn]

Originally Posted by Pinoikoi

I am pregnant and have chronic utis.. this is part of my midwife's plan of attack I guess you could say. It is a LOT of water for me, though.. I barely made it by bedtime last night to the gallon mark.

Oh my gosh, I would be peeing nonstop! I really can't imagine (as I've never been pregnant and seem to have a tiny bladder anyway). Just curious... does the plan of attack include cranberry juice?

Another thing you could look into is a waterbottle with a built-in filter system. The built-in filter could make the water at school more palatable and it would be much smaller for carrying around. I'm thinking Brita makes one...

[Pinoikoi]

Originally Posted by SophieAnn

Oh my gosh, I would be peeing nonstop! I really can't imagine (as I've never been pregnant and seem to have a tiny bladder anyway). Just curious... does the plan of attack include cranberry juice?

Another thing you could look into is a waterbottle with a built-in filter system. The built-in filter could make the water at school more palatable and it would be much smaller for carrying around. I'm thinking Brita makes one...

I really don't want to drink the water at school it is brown on Monday (after sitting the weekend).. it is an OLD school with OLD plumbing.. really gross. I used to use a coffee pot in my classroom for tea (which had a filter) and it was better than unfiltered for sure, but I would much rather bring water from home for sure..

I am not opposed to cranberry juice, I actually like the stuff, but the bottle for the GOOD cranberry juice is about $6 a quart (last about a week probably) and I can get a month's worth of organic cranberry pills for about the same price, so I take the tablets (and studies show they are more effective slightly anyway). I have also started nettle infusion, probiotics, and I am supposed to try acupuncture as well.

[SophieAnn]

Ah, I didn't know about cranberry tablets.

Sounds like the school has very old plumbing. The brown stuff could be iron from the pipes or possibly something much worse (wonder if the pipes are lead?). I'd agree, especially since you're pregnant that drinking the water at school is not an option. That's too bad.

[LaughingHyena]

Would it work to get a camping water carrier and then fill a smaller bottle throughout the day?

I think the ones we have are about 5 gallons but obviously you don;t need to fill it all the way. They have a tap on them so it's quite easy to fill a water bottle if you can stand the carrier on a table.

All the ones I have seen are plastic though so I;m not sure about the BPA issue.

[scbegonias]

I have opted for a glass gallon jug (originally bought as a gallon of apple juice from the store) that I use to refill my water bottle. I would never drink it if I had to lift up an entire gallon.

[sunnysandiegan]

My DH takes a 40 oz SS bottle to work every day. He uses a glass to drink his water at the office. He leaves a 24 oz SS bottle in the car each day (bringing it in at night) and drinks straight out of that on the drive to/from work. He drinks the rest of his daily water from glasses at home before and after work. We already had the 24 oz SS bottle, so I just had to find him the biggest SS bottle I could. 40 ounces was the largest I could find for a reasonable price at the time. I have seen larger since then, but he has worked out this system and it works well for him. Good luck!