water tastes of chlorine. Unusual

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I`m in s wales and last night the water smelt and tasted strongly of chlorine/chemicals. The water here is usually so sweet and lovely to drink

I wonder if the water co had to up the chemicals for some reason. Anyway I went to argos this morning and bought a water filter

Anyone else notice anything?

pavlovs_dog

your best bet would be to contact your water supplier - dwr cymru/welsh water, as a guess. ask if they can explain it, perhaps they can shed light on the situation :think:

i'd agree with about how nice our water normally tastes. dont know what you'll make of filtered water, because i really couldnt take to it. the taste was too far removed from the taste of normal tap water for my liking _pale_

Snaggles

Hiya! We live in an area where the water always tastes of chemicals, so I can sympathise (was brought up in an area where the water was gorgeous - in fact some people had three taps, hot, cold and springwater, because we were up on the hills - now that is GORGEOUS).

Anyway, just wanted to say that if you fill bottles with normal tap water and put them in the fridge for a couple of hours, the chlorine taste dissipates, and the water tastes nice again. Obviously if this is something that doesn't normally happen in your area though, I would check with the water board.