Customer Reviews

Primo Five (5) Gallon Bulk Bottled Water

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I have been buying this water in the 5 gallon size at our local Lowe's store for the past 6 months. I have been very happy with the taste. There is no plastic taste from the bottle. We have a large family of 7 and we go through a lot of water! I am happy to have my children drink a lot of water and I feel it is better for our health than juice and soda. When we are finished with a bottle we recycle it at Lowe's. I believe it is $12.99 initially and $5.99 a bottle when you return a bottle.

Water definitely has a plastic taste. You buy the bottle and the water at Lowes, apparently Amazon, but guess what, the bottle is not a deposit item, so you never get the cost of the bottle back, which leads to only refills of their water which is truly awful. The company Primo should not be allowed to to be in business with such an ungreen approach to filling landfills with 5 gal bottles. If you own them they are yours to get rid of? They should be tarred and feathered.

The water was awful and the plastic was too thin. It cracked after a refill in two places! Thanks a lot! :(

Some of the people posting on here have false information. primo bottles are made from ingeo plastic which is made from plants (mostly corn)and not oil. As such it does not contain BPE and is extremely environmentally friendly. I found the taste to be very good as well.

Primo Five (5) Gallon Bulk Bottled Water

We purchased a new water cooler recently and also purchased this 5 gallon jug with water from Primo. The water has a distinct "plastic" taste that is seriously off-putting. We plan to refill it at the water store down the street and hope that a different water brand will not have the same taste - although we suspect that leaching from the Primo plastic bottle may well ruin any water that ends up in it. If a second batch proves to taste like plastic we will be ditching this bottle and going with another product. We didn't purchase a water cooler and bottled water so that we could taste plastic.....

We bought this water bottle to reuse, and after months of refilling it found out it contains BPA-leaching plastic. BPA is on the list of Toxic Substances in Canada, and is slowly being banned in baby products everywhere. So we're not comfortable drinking our daily water out of it! Otherwise, we've had no problem with this product.