Question:
Bottled Water Reviews? ideas?

Answer: The most common solution where people have legitimate concerns about such thing (such as an underlying pathosis) is to provide a water source for cooking that bypasses the softener. This allows for softened water to be used for toilets, bathing, laundry, dishwashing, and other hygiene purposes. Water for drinking, cooking, and preparing beverages can come from the tap that bypasses the conditioner. Another method of purification can be employed at the point of consumption such as reverse osmosis that supplies conditioned water that doesn't have added salts. Of course, drinking the unconditioned tap water is also an option as is purchasing bottled water.

we've been through this and through this. We rent, and therefore have no control over how the water softener is set up, so the water supply for all of the house would run through it if we kept it functional. We have the reverse osmosis deal in the kitchen, which is highly questionable in efficacy and requires mucho maintenance besides. We would just drink tap water, but the taste is so foul it makes the water unpalatable--reverse osmosis does nothing for this. We use bottled water on occasion, but the expense outweighs any taste and osmolar advantages it may hold.