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dandelionclock30

If your tap water is that bad that its undrinkable have you thought about lodging a complaint with your water company?.After all if your water bill is anything like mine, your already paying a massive amount for water.
Sometimes water does come out of the hot tap whitish, I think its something to do with hot air in the water.
You do realize that all that bottled water lark is just tap water in a bottle anyway?. Its the biggest con out there.

Edwardia

Deleted_User apologies for being unclear.

Once opened, the water is available for bacteria ie if you take a swig and then put the lid back on, any bacteria from your mouth which gets in the bottle can then multiply. Since bottled water doesn't have chlorine added to it, I'm more careful about leaving it hanging around opened and un-drunk.

Few people would leave a glass of water laying on a bedside table then drink it three days later - it just doesn't taste good. Same for bottled water.

Re: transferring water from a larger bottle into a smaller bottle again, there's a potential bacteria problem. With a thermos flask you can clean it with very hot water and detergent, with a plastic bottle the plastic deforms if the water is too hot (potential PCB release) and anything used to clean them could leave a chemical residue.

The plastic bottles go in the recycling not landfill.

dandelionclock30 - as long as the water is within the quality limits then there's no basis for complaint. Hardness isn't considered. Yep we're on a water meter

Vast swathes of the SE has hard water. When you go somewhere else that has softer water (North Wales for example) and your hair and skin feel better and washing comes out soo much softer then you really notice that it's not just the taste of the water that's different.

I see where you're coming from on bottled water. I watched a documentary on YouTube about bottled water. In many countries it is just filtered mains water. Aquafina and Dasani in USA are purified mains water not spring water. Pure in many counties outside UK is purified mains water as well.

The spring water at Evian was discovered in 1790 and Evian-les-Bains has been a spa town since 1824. It's definitely NOT purified mains water.

pakokelso93

I drink bottled water as in the city it's awful! The best tasting bottled water that is sooo cheap is Costco's Kirkland stuff. 35 bottles for about £4...

pavlovs_dog

at the risk of sounding like a loony is the water from your bathroom tap any better? We have no issue with the quality of our water, but I personally find it tastes nicer out of the bathroom tap than it does from the kitchen tap.

The kirkland brand mentioned earlier is costco's own brand.

Edwardia

In theory, because water is pulled in straight from the mains and heated and there are no tanks in the loft, the water in the bathroom is drinkable. I haven't done this though.

sophlowe45

What do you think of Highland Springs water Edwardia? As it is organic.

http://www.highland-spring.com/

http://www.highland-spring.com/our-water/product-range/

If you click on view product information, it tells you the average analysis at source mg/L

Sulfate 5.3

Nitrate 3.1

Edwardia

Water itself cannot be certified as organic, and for the land to be certified organic it would have to be farmed organically.

I think I have had Highland Spring.. maybe on a train ? I couldn't comment on it as I don't remember what it tastes like. Whether I'd drink it, really depends on the calcium content. I looked up the Ochil Hills and they are made of lava and TBH I have noo idea whether that contains a lot of calcium or not, but I suspect that it would be a fairly soft water..

The sulfates are higher than Evian and the nitrates lower.

jenniewb

May be something worth trying:

I live in London (which is SE London) I'm not seeing cloudy water when I fill a glass from the sink. But I wonder if your further out towards the cliffs and the sea where you may well pick up more sediment.

I'd initially contact the water company you pay your bills to, they may not do anything straight away but a complaint logged enough times with enough people and they may decide to take action.

Next I'd get a water filter jug. These may not get rid of all the sediment either but just the action of filtering may take out a little more of it then otherwise.

Then leave the filter jug in the fridge. If it is chalk or grains which are making the water cloudy, then given a few hours the stuff will have settled at the bottom of the jug. I'm sure a single or even two jugs wont be enough for the size of an average family but it may help just a little to cut costs. Evian is one of the branded bottled water companies and they are always going to cost a lot more then supermarket's own or even some cheaper British owned brands of bottled water.

I can recommend Brita for filers but there are a few other brands out there which are cheaper then this. The reason I can recommend Brita is that they make a jug which is designed to sit inside the shelf of a fridge and so out of the way of the kitchen work top and also easier to keep feeling fresher then a jug of water which has been warmed to room temperature by having it sit for a few hours.

happy_with_my_lot!!

evian = naive - backwards! Is someone taking us all for mugs?

Edwardia

jenniewb yes I do live further out so that's probably why more sediment

happy with my lot!! I'm confused, what are you trying to say ? That a spa water discovered hundreds of years before mains water became the norm is somehow a fake ?