Bottled water

Edwardia

Having lived in some places with pretty dodgy water, I will only drink boiled water in tea etc or bottled water - it's just ingrained in me. I also grab a 50cl bottle of Evian now, to stop me guzzling Diet Pepsi.

Wondering whether people have water filter jugs, bottled water or think drinking bottled water is only OK for soft Southerners ??

And if you do drink bottled water where do you find the best offers ?

dlusman

No tap water in the UK is "dodgy" - it is all perfectly safe to drink.

asparagusnextleft

Eau de tap works fine for me.

I used to use a filter jug when I lived down south because the water tasted foul and stank of chlorine. Now I'm back up north it's fine straight from the tap. Even down south I wouldn't buy bottled, once it had been through the filter it tasted fine.

We're lucky to live in a country where the water is perfectly safe to drink, so I'm happy to drink it.

Middy

When I lived in Yorkshire for 5 years, I loved the tap water. When I moved back to Leicestershire, I didn't like the taste of the tap water there. I can drink it with some sugar free squash - esp Cherry Vimto :drool:

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Sofiaki

I have a Brita water filter partly because my tap water is so hard and partly because newly reduced income means every little helps. I was drinking a 1.5l bottle of whatever water per day, at roughly 60p for named brands, and around 40p for unnamed, which adds up over the year. I allow myself the luxury of some fizzy water (usually purchased on offer) which now replaces sodas.

Edwardia

dlusman wrote: »

No tap water in the UK is "dodgy" - it is all perfectly safe to drink.

True. Untrue in many other places in the world including some parts of USA.

Haffiana

Bottled water? Water that has been sitting stagnant for months in plastic, leaching toxins out of the bottle, especially in the presence of light... I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

Zanderman

Nothing wrong with tap water - and if there is a scum or flavour issue with yours, a filter will sort it out.

As for bottled, it's the ultimate con - expensive, unsustainable and completely unnecessary. Most of it is just marketing-led fashion and bad habits brought on by people being ridiculously wary of tap water.

No need for it at all in the UK. Can't comment on elsewhere, but this is a UK-based site, so if you're talking domestic, rather than holiday, consumption, bottled water is a rather strange 'luxury' that we've all been conned into wanting in the last 15+ years. It's not even treated as well as tap water and is served from and stored in nasty plastic bottles.

On the other hand, here in Zanderman Towers, we do like fizzy water - and used to use a sodastream. But the sodastream refills are expensive, the fizz is short-lived and so fizzy, not still, bottled water is rather tempting.

So we do buy fizzy bottled water - but only the value brands (vary from 14 to 19p for a standard big bottle) as the 'spring-water' brands, even the supermarket own versions, are stupidly expensive - it's only water! The value brands make no claim to be 'spring' water - just 'water', so they're probably just tap water, but they are more convincingly carbonated than a sodastream can achieve (and they're cheaper too)

prosaver

i seen a clip on the news about the drought down south and it showed a resivour really low and the news reader was in a canoe paddling away, i felt like shouting get out of there, people have to drink that stuff.

LondonDreamer

There are some parts even in the south where the tap water is actually pleasant. My in-laws house in a Surrey village being one of them.

I'm in London with very hard water, and filtered is good enough for me. It's lovely when the filter is brand new, actually. I also have a filter kettle which my DH says makes tea taste much nicer. Work has bottled water dispensers, but even the tap water there (West End) is passable as long as it's cold.