24 x 500ml Bottles of Buxton Spring Sparkling Water for £6.07 Delivered! @ Amazon

mnbvcxz

This isn't particularly cheap, though you don't have to carry it as heavy shopping. Waitrose is only 4p more expensive for an identical product. Buy a lesser brand water, or better yet lidl or aldi and you pay less than half this.

Personally I do buy bottled water and then refill the bottles from the tap, I run the tap water though a cheap filter jug and it tastes just as good. It's easier to buy the bottles full than empty.

Bottled spring/natural water is less healthy. To be called natural they can't treat it, just filter out any dirt. I only discovered this when someone went into hospital with a reduced imune system and they were very strict about no bottled water as it could have germs. Tap water has chlorine and such which prevents germs. So if you have a reduced immune system or are pregnant/fragile then stay away from bottled water. I know it sounds counterintuitive to want to drink a chemical but thats just how it pans out...

I don't know anything about estrogen in tap water, sorry, but I would guess its too insignificant to matter? I'll chance it personally anyway.

Studies do seem to bear out what the hospital doctors told us.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7763038/Bottled-water-contains-more-bacteria-than-tap-water.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/bacteria-in-bottled-mineral-water-blamed-for-6000-cases-of-food-poisoning-a-year-581996.html

AuntyCat

In Buxton we have lovely tap water haha. No really, and it's from Sheffied!
Alternatively we can pop down to the spring & fill up bottles.

nosh86

AngelsMadv wrote: »

Oh dear. We agree on most things but I definitely do not on this one (dependant on where you live). I actually prefer my Yorkshire tap water to any bottled chite. The kids take this nice tap water with a splash of Robinson's in it to school. they have little Aluminium bottles that cost £1. When you're jogging, save your bloody bottle. Save the environment too.

Fluoride? There's more in one time of brushing your teeth than in drinking thousands of litres of water that's had flouridification.

Where is your proof? In safe levels (which all drinking water has) apart from very mild flourosis in very minimal cases, flouridificaiton of water has positive effects! I.e. for your teeth.

I can understand grabbing a bottle of water when out and about because you're a captive audience. I would, however, never buy the stuff from a bloody supermarket or online.

If you live in an area with chit water, though, buy a bloody Britta jug. The filters are always on offer. Also get a Britta kettle. It works out a lot cheaper in the long run.

Each to their own, though. I love my Yorkshire water! :A

I love my yorkshire water too! it tastes so clean where as down south its hard to drink! we have to drink bottled when we go down to surrey to b.i.l house.

withabix

Somehow I KNEW this would happen. :rotfl:

So which of you nay-sayers has fizzy water coming out of your kitchen taps?

I only buy the fizzy myself - I have an American fridge freezer with filtered water and ice and a filter tap by the sink for the flat stuff.

I know ALL about the arguments about tap water - I work in the water industry! (and that's why I try and remove the treatment chemicals before drinking it!!!!)

As for plastic bottles 'costing us the earth', at least they are recyclable.


I bet you don't all walk everywhere in your shoes made of bark from a naturally-dead tree, do you?

montsie

withabix wrote: »

Somehow I KNEW this would happen. :rotfl:

So which of you nay-sayers has fizzy water coming out of your kitchen taps?

I only buy the fizzy myself - I have an American fridge freezer with filtered water and ice and a filter tap by the sink for the flat stuff.

I know ALL about the arguments about tap water - I work in the water industry! (and that's why I try and remove the treatment chemicals before drinking it!!!!)

As for plastic bottles 'costing us the earth', at least they are recyclable.


I bet you don't all walk everywhere in your shoes made of bark from a naturally-dead tree, do you?

hehehe. I keep checking this thread to see how the argument is progressing and was wondering when someone would point out that the original post is about fizzy water though you do point out that still is available. I personally drink both. I don't buy bottled water in packs but pick up a new bottle from work's stash every Monday and refill until Friday then recycle. I personally find the metal re-usable bottles make the water taste....metallic!

elektra

mnbvcxz wrote: »

This isn't particularly cheap, though you don't have to carry it as heavy shopping. Waitrose is only 4p more expensive for an identical product. Buy a lesser brand water, or better yet lidl or aldi and you pay less than half this.

Personally I do buy bottled water and then refill the bottles from the tap, I run the tap water though a cheap filter jug and it tastes just as good. It's easier to buy the bottles full than empty.

Bottled spring/natural water is less healthy. To be called natural they can't treat it, just filter out any dirt. I only discovered this when someone went into hospital with a reduced imune system and they were very strict about no bottled water as it could have germs. Tap water has chlorine and such which prevents germs. So if you have a reduced immune system or are pregnant/fragile then stay away from tap water. I know it sounds counterintuitive to want to drink a chemical but thats just how it pans out...

Maybe I've read it wrong but didn't you mean stay away from bottled water ?

mnbvcxz

elektra wrote: »

Maybe I've read it wrong but didn't you mean stay away from bottled water ?

Sod, yes, sorry. Stay away from bottled water.

withabix

You called him a sod! lol

Freebeez

a1cat wrote: »

OK I know about the molecules of Julius Caesar etc but my point about 7 people is that in the London area it's a very tight circle.

Water is abstracted from wastewater from houses, that's why it contains oestrogen from women on the pill.

Literally person 1 drinks & pees, next day it has been 'purified' in a waste treatment plant and it's back in the taps ready for person 2.

Not strictly true. The start of the cycle in the water purification process (for domestic supply) doesn't start with wastewater. A wastewater treatment plant discharges water to the sea after treatment. Your tap water comes from another source which has usually undergone some sort of natural purification, such as from an underground aquifer (nature's filter) or river etc. Yes, all water is recycled in a closed loop, including the stuff that ends up being sold in bottles.

As for chemicals, they are added to ensure the water is fit for human consumption by the time it reaches your taps (kills micro-organisms). Some bottled water may also have the same chemicals added! Anyway chlorine is safe.

Tap water is also subject to tougher quality testing than bottled water.

But hey, each to their own.

Freebeez

a1cat wrote: »

I never had moobs when we got our water in Wales - but when I moved to London

Maybe that's just down to a slower metabolic rate (ageing) OR perhaps an increase in consumption of that other beverage, beer, which has plenty of oestrogenic activity.