Bottled water why!
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i actually prefer tap water. every time i order water from a restaurant i always ask for tap water
probably just me though....
My girlfriend does this, but it's because she is tight.
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Northern Ireland has some of the best mains supplied water in the UK, however i still prefer the taste of bottled water. Plus you cant exactly carry a glass of water around with you all day.
Yes, river water is very clear here.
At the top of the hills it isn't too bad here, but it is very cumbersome to go to a spring or mountain stream every time you want a drink!
Corrected, the south-west has great water too as the water comes from upland moorland like it does in the northI never understood this, until I visited relatives in the south/south-east and tasted their tap water.
Yes it is, but not impossible.
Look at some african nations for examples of the importance of any water and the journeys involved sometimes, let alone it clean.
Just get fit, few 5ltr containers and off you go.
Free water, fresh from which ever source you pick and as much as you can have!
I personally maybe wouldn't use some of the lowland waterways, but certainly those coming from the hills (Scotland has lots of hills)
I love being able to drink pretty much where ever when away walking or summits etc
buying water while out i can accept, but buying bottles to take home and drink is baffling to me. Understandable in countries where you really cant drink the water but that just isn't the case here.
Not only that, but the carbon footprint is massive.
On the plus side, when bottled water prices go up i don't have to give a hoot that it now costs more pre litre than petrol.
Not only that, but the carbon footprint is massive.
On the plus side, when bottled water prices go up i don't have to give a hoot that it now costs more pre litre than petrol.
Waste of money, extra pollution etc...
Bottled water is actually more likely to be dirtier as it can be sitting on a shelf for ages.
Tap water is ridiculously well monitored up and down the country, it's very safe and clean... there's such a thing as hard and soft water which is why it can taste slightly different depending on where in the country you are but there really isn't much difference.
Bottled water is actually more likely to be dirtier as it can be sitting on a shelf for ages.
Tap water is ridiculously well monitored up and down the country, it's very safe and clean... there's such a thing as hard and soft water which is why it can taste slightly different depending on where in the country you are but there really isn't much difference.
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Tap water in london isn't particularly good, when I stayed with my brother in manchester the tap water was pretty decent but he kept brita filtered water in the fridge which tasted slightly better, but realistically I was just more used to the taste. I either drink bottled, and I prefer sparkling as it tastes more refreshing to me, or filtered water.
Tap water has gunk added to it and goes through miles of piping of various quality, the point of bottled water fresh from a naturally filtered source is its cleaner and tastes better, which it does, the very cheapest/worst water is just tap water bottled up and resold, but then its probably filtered anyway so saves you the hassle of having a ackward shaped brita filter in the fridge with a fairly small capacity and remembering to keep the thing full all the time so meh.
THen theres the zombie apocolypse, one zombie falls into the resevoir and you don't want to go near the stuff.
EDIT:- lol, bottled water is likely to be dirtier as it sits on shelves for ages, in their open dust contaminated bottles?
Tap water has gunk added to it and goes through miles of piping of various quality, the point of bottled water fresh from a naturally filtered source is its cleaner and tastes better, which it does, the very cheapest/worst water is just tap water bottled up and resold, but then its probably filtered anyway so saves you the hassle of having a ackward shaped brita filter in the fridge with a fairly small capacity and remembering to keep the thing full all the time so meh.
THen theres the zombie apocolypse, one zombie falls into the resevoir and you don't want to go near the stuff.
EDIT:- lol, bottled water is likely to be dirtier as it sits on shelves for ages, in their open dust contaminated bottles?
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I'll only buy bottled water when out and about never seen the point of using it at home (apart from when I lived abroad). I knew a family, in Aberdeenshire, who did all their cooking and whatnot with bottled water! I was surprised that I didn't find hundreds of bottles in the bathroom so they could have a bottled water shower!
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Bottled water
the drink of fools
the drink of fools
I think that's the biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard.
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SRSLY?
It depends where you are but the tap water at my parents place is probably as good as most bottled waters - it does come pretty much straight from the Hare Burn though as far as I am aware.
The water where I am in London isn't terrible either but I do notice the limescale appearing in the kettle which isn't even an issue back home.
The sheep poo is just added flavour! Actually I do drink from burns when walking on the hills sometimes but it's only clean if some animal hasn't died in it further up the hill.
The money is mostly made elsewhere in the world where the tap water is horrible
It does sell over here, but not nearly as well as it does in other countries. Thats where the money is made.
Here its just bought by people who like the taste of it. Yes you can taste the difference between bottled water and good quality drinking water. But its like the difference between pepsi and coca cola
Its only when you have really hard water that you would actually choose to buy bottled instead, that the uptake is very high.