How to store water

meritaten

ok - tap water often tastes funny - but storing it in plastic bottles for at least 24 hours often sorts that out.
my OH works for a water company and I was convinced that the water they hand out in two litre bottles was some sort of spring water. It isnt! its ordinary tap water, but chilled in the fridge it tastes like the water you buy!

Pink.

meritaten wrote: »

ok - tap water often tastes funny - but storing it in plastic bottles for at least 24 hours often sorts that out.
my OH works for a water company and I was convinced that the water they hand out in two litre bottles was some sort of spring water. It isnt! its ordinary tap water, but chilled in the fridge it tastes like the water you buy!

I agree with you meritaten . I like a glass of cold water when I wake up in the morning, but I don't enjoy it straight from the tap. These days I always keep tap water in a couple of old plastic water bottles and leave it on the back doorstep. It could all be in my mind, but it tastes much better and it's just the right temperature for me. Obviously as the warm weather increases I'm going to have to think about using a fridge instead of the doorstep.

I think I may have read this as a tip on here..I just wish I could remember who posted it because I'd like to go back and thank them. Whoever you are, you're a star who stopped me from buying bottled water. :A

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Seakay

If you are thinking of buying a filter jug anyway why don't you start by filtering the tap water that you have - it should certainly get the scale out?
Next, I'd consider contacting a plumber or checking out a DIY thread because it could be that you have furred up pipes which are shedding the scale into your water and should be cleaned out before they block up competely.
How were you thinking of stocking up in Malvern? And is it somewhere you usually go? Because however cheap the water transporting it is going to be expensive with fuel the price that it is.
I always though that my water was too chloriney - I use a filter jug and it tastes fine and I don't have to leave it to stand for a couple of days.
You can get food grade containers which shouldn't leach into whatever they contain, but it's not a subject that i know great deal about.

meritaten

I think it may have been me Pink! I am sure I have given this tip before on a couple of threads (usually when people complain about the cost of bottled water!)

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meritaten wrote: »

I think it may have been me Pink! I am sure I have given this tip before on a couple of threads (usually when people complain about the cost of bottled water!)

It may well have been you meritaten as I often find your posts useful. If it was, then thankyou! thankyou! thankyou!

:A:A:A:A:A

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Steve-o

Pink-winged wrote: »

These days I always keep tap water in a couple of old plastic water bottles and leave it on the back doorstep. It could all be in my mind, but it tastes much better and it's just the right temperature for me. Obviously as the warm weather increases I'm going to have to think about using a fridge instead of the doorstep.

Why don't you store it in the fridge? It's much more efficient for your fridge to have the spaces filled up, so you're not having to re-chill as much air when you open the fridge door.

To be really OS, you could put the bottles outside in cold whether, and then transfer them to the fridge when they are cold enough (so that your fridge isn't having to use energy chilling them).

Pink.

Steve-o wrote: »

Why don't you store it in the fridge? It's much more efficient for your fridge to have the spaces filled up, so you're not having to re-chill as much air when you open the fridge door.

To be really OS, you could put the bottles outside in cold whether, and then transfer them to the fridge when they are cold enough (so that your fridge isn't having to use energy chilling them).

I don't store them in the fridge because at the moment it's cool enough outside in the evening and with five of us at home the fridge is full to bursting most of the time.

Steve-o

So your spaces are already filled up.

zippychick

i;ve merged this with the first link Pink listed.

I don't like cold water either, a reflexologist always told me to drink it at room temperature cause I'm generally cold all the time!:p:o

alex21

I always have about 20 bottles of the value still water in my shed. It cost a couple of quid but in January in the snow when people were having to go to collect water from designated area, often miles away we were fine. I wondered then how elderly people managed as you had to bring your own containers and water is heavy. Not everyone has a car. It made me glad I could help out some of my neighbours. Some areas here had no running water for several weeks. Water is the one thing you cannot live without and we all take it for granted. I dread the introduction of watercharges here.