Water at O'Hare
 

Does anyone know of any place within Terminal 3 (AA) that sells bottled water besides Dasani/Aquafina/Vasa? I know its so trivial, but I hate those waters - may as well fill up something out of the water fountain. There's a place in one of the restaurants that has Panna sparkling water, but it has a poptop and therefore un-resealable....

IMHO Chicago water fountain water is as good as any bottled water. I always just bring an empty bottle and fill it up airside.

Most city water in the US is at least as pure as bottled water.

The United States is the only country with universally potable tap water that insists on wasting money on bottled water.

AMEN brother !!

I take our excellent Lake Michigan fed tap water for granted too many times, get to another city, grab a glass of tap water and BLECH !!:td:

Truck down to Sheridan, Il and enjoy the rotten egg aroma from the wells.:td:

Does the water at ORD come from the Lake? Every time I have filled my bottle there, I have thought it tastes terrible. (Terrible is not the word I'd use in real life.)

But then maybe I've been warped by Dallas water. That's quite possible.

BillJ

Well, hotpot1, it appears that no one knows the answer to your question, but in the grand tradition of FT, you have received at no added cost a variety of opinions on the general issue of tap water versus bottled water. :)

FWIW I'm part of the "fill up the empty bottle from the water fountain" crowd. Cheap and easy.

Maybe the Wolfgang Puck place that is jus beyond security would have something like Fiji or Vittel in a re-sealable bottle?

I think they sell Dasani because they sell Coke products. But, I agree that Chicago tap water is better than just about anything but Fiji, Vittel or Evian.

honest answer would be I don't know, but seeing as LM water is piped much further west & north than ORD, I'd assume that the water at ORD is LM water.

maybe you are drinking from a gray water tap?;):)

Vittel! I was so sad when they stopped selling that in states regularly. I know there is one place where I could still mail order it, but there is a limit on how much I will spend on water.

It was nice to find it in Tokyo earlier this month though.

BillJ

Maybe one of the duty free places that have been springing up lately at least in T1 would have something along this line (not that I have any idea why you would want to export a bottle of water, but...).

I've never seen anything other than generic bottled stuff that tastes like Lake Michigan Tap.

I have never stopped here, but while walking I have noticed a huge sleection:
http://www.flychicago.com/ohare/conc...Waterworks.htm
It is located in the Rotunda of the G concourse

There is also another consession in the connector between T3 and the G concourse (across from the windows) that sells Panna still in a plastic bottle. IIRC, it was $3 a bottle or so.