Thanks everyone! For clarity, I'm looking for single person portable. One person to the gym, to school, etc. Thanks again!

I’ve had a SS bottle from Nalgene for many years. I haven’t seen them for sale for quite awhile and I don’t even know if they still make them. Put a Splash Guard in it and good to go...for a long, long time.

We were in California last week for a family wedding. I could not get over the amount of bottled water they go through in that state. California preaches to the rest of us about environmental responsibility, the plastic straw thing and all that. Then they go through mountains of plastic water bottles every day. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year.

Good for you recognizing that drinking bottled water is wasteful and expensive. Our water is great, but when we lived in W Colorado, it didn’t taste good. Sounds like you went the same route. We had a Pür filter on the terminal end of our kitchen faucet that could bypass the filter for dishes, or run through it for drinking. I thought it was very effective.

I've been using Hydroflask containers since before they were popular. I have a few. I like the wide mouth with flip-up straw type lid.

They come in many sizes. I have a larger one and one that fits in a cup holder on a car. Will keep water cold all day long.

I’ve tried a lot of them. To the point of my wife begging me stop buying water bottles. What you want is double walled stainless steel vacuum insulated. You’ll pay more for the big names like Hydro Flask or RTIC and they work well, keeping my cold water cold without ice for up to 12 hours sitting at room temperature. But my favorite, my go-to bottle, is the Thermo Flask 40oz I got from Costco for $17 for 2 bottles. You’ll pay $30+ for a single Hydro Flask or other name brand. My teenage daughter uses Hydro Flask because it’s something of a status symbol at school and its what the cool kids use. I’m fine with my Costco bottles, though.

I prefer spout lids to the flip up straw lids.

Also, I’ve found that the 40oz bottles stay cold longer than the 25oz ones by about 2 hours.

Another brand I recommend is Mira. Same rules apply: double walled stainless vacuum insulated. The Mira bottles are bottle shaped, though. I got mine from Amazon.

I hope this info helps and keeps you from buying as many bottles as I did.

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Originally posted by skonie:
I’ve tried a lot of them. To the point of my wife begging me stop buying water bottles.

LOL! My wife was "Another water bottle?!?!" before I found a couple that worked for me.

I guess I’m the only person here that prefers a Camelbak hydration bag; I keep a 3 liter military bag in my cruiser and fill it with water from a 5 gallon spring water dispenser along with ice from a filtered water system. As long as I clean it from time to time, it always tastes great and I’ve always found the bite valve system very convenient.

Stanley 1qt stainless canteen has proven acceptable in my use the last couple years.

Plastic - Nalgene

Non-insulated Stainless Steel - Kleen Kanteen

Insulated - HydroFlask or Camelbak Chute

I use the Chute as my go to bottle when I go running (it stays in the car - cold water when I am done)

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Glass: life factory 22 oz bottle

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I know they used to make 5 gallon glass bottles for water storage.

The actual name for them is a "carboy". They're still around, homebrewers use them for brewing beer.

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Originally posted by eyrich:
Glass: life factory 22 oz bottle

That looks like a winner! Thanks!

People are funny.

I purchase a water service for the small office I work in. Our standard supply is eight 5-gallon bottles. We connect one to a dispenser that gives us both hot and cold water. Every couple of months, I order two cases of single-serving bottles. My thinking is that having some to offer visitors would be the courteous thing to do.

The single bottles disappear almost overnight. I have a couple of insulated bottles (Hydro Flask and S'well) that I refill throughout the day. Since they're insulated, my water stays cold a lot longer.

I'm not sure why some of the others find it necessary to drink from cheap plastic bottles. The options are much more attractive, in my opinion.

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Originally posted by eyrich:
Glass: life factory 22 oz bottle

I've seen those in stores. Thought to try one, but they struck me as heavy for the volume they hold. ICBW.

Hydro Flask. It’s as good as a cooler for keeping filtered ice water cold in a hot parked truck and at night I keep it and a glass on the night table so I don’t have to go downstairs if I wake up thirsty. Originally bought as a growler but the gasket sometimes leaked due to the pressure. Switched to something else for beer but no regrets since it gets even more use now. Mine’s 64 oz but the smaller ones are perfect for carrying around.

Nalgene. They are BPA-free. They have plain screw tops and ones with straws.

But at home, I just drink tap water from a cup. We have perfectly good water from the tap.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
So far I've found the water bottles that work best for me employ Contigo's AUTOSEAL™ system. I've a plastic Powerade one I use for my on-the-floor workout drink and a stainless steel Avex thermal one I use for on the road or when I'm working in the yard or whatever. Advantage: Easily open/close w/o getting hands near drinking spout. Disadvantage: Keeping the AUTOSEAL™ system gunk-free when using anything other than straight water.

I use a (plastic) Blender Bottle for my post-workout shake and an older plastic Contigo flip-top bottle for the water I keep to hand in the house. (Between cats and my own clumsiness, I rarely have open-top containers on a desk or table any more.)

Contigo and Blender Bottle are owned by Newell Brands. Contigo was the mass market brand, whereas sister company Avex was the specialty brand. Avex had the nicer components and refinement, whereas Contigo was made for mass retailers/non-specialty market, basically de-tuned what Avex was putting out. Avex was folded into Coleman (another sister brand), as the Coleman execs were freaking-out about the headway Yeti and others were making into the insulated drink container marketplace. Avex's FreeFlow and ReCharge cap designs were some of the best on the marketplace, properly insulated and easy to use; you can still get whatever left-over clearance inventory at WalMart and Sportsman's Warehouse, Coleman has already put out their re-branded bottles.