Bottled water why!

Not got a problem with tap water at all tbh. I'll buy bottled water if I'm out and about and haven't taken any with me.

Minimal taste difference in it imo. I don't understand people that will only ever drink bottled water. I drink so much I'd be broke if I only drank bottled water.

I drink it out of the bathroom tap, I'm really not that fussy. People that are fussy about germs and bacteria and all that **** are the same people that will pick up sandwiches with a napkin and not touch door handles.

If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger.
 
Yeah tap water isn't great tasting but to be honest I have worse things to avoid in my life. I got fed up buying it and and fed up with the amount of extra plastic I was throwing away so now just fill up my Sigg bottle and carry it around with me. Simples. More people should do that and I get to own a cool bottle that people look at and admire. That might sound snotty but it's cost me less in the long run, environmental impact is lower and I own something I cherish and value and enjoy using.

I haven't watched the programme yet but I hope it covers the behaviour change that's happened over the last 15 years or so. Today people can't leave the house for more than 5 minutes without dying of thirst and have to be permanently sucking on a bottle of water or diet Coke like they're babies. Before, people would just wait until they got to their destination (work/restaurant/home/dogging spot) and quench their thirst there. Environmentally, it's the amount of unneccessary waste it causes simply because it's become normal behaviour to carry bottles of water around rather than wait until you're at your destination.
 
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In America they are worried about the quality of their tap water and the addition of fluoride however the use of PET bottles has caused concern over the amount of antimony that is absorbed by the water.

Where do you stop?

I do think in centuries time they will look back upon us and question the use of bottled water.

The water out of our taps is something a fair proportion of the world could only dream of and we wash our cars with it and then we then buy bottled water to drink
 
Wow and no conspiracy nut has mentioned fluoride in tap water yet as a reason why.
 
BennyC said:
Not got a problem with tap water at all tbh. I'll buy bottled water if I'm out and about and haven't taken any with me.

Minimal taste difference in it imo. I don't understand people that will only ever drink bottled water. I drink so much I'd be broke if I only drank bottled water.

I drink it out of the bathroom tap, I'm really not that fussy. People that are fussy about germs and bacteria and all that **** are the same people that will pick up sandwiches with a napkin and not touch door handles.

If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger.
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You don't have moobs yet?
 
Never used to drink a lot of bottled water, but in NZ and we are on tank water so everything has to be filtered or boiled - so bottled water is sometimes a more convenient option.
 
God if some of you are that worried buy a reverse osmosis unit with combined UV sterilizer to kill of the nasties living inside the pipes and in your tap, Can be had or custom made for under £200 and is much cheaper than bottled over a year and tastes pretty spectacular.

My tap water is actually cleaner than some of the bottled water available in the uk, has a lower nitrate and nitrite content .
 
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Purified water comes out of the third tap in our kitchen courtesy of our filter system. Although to be fair, our regular tap water--even in the bathroom or toilet (not that it probably matters where in the house it's coming from)--is perfectly fine.
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I heard that generally bathroom water and what not comes from a different source than the kitchen plumbed into your kitchen taps. Because of this, the water is generally 'staler' in the bathroom as it's been sitting in your water tank which may or may not be clean whereas your kitchen water isn't sitting around for as long.
 
bigjimmyauk said:
God if some of you are that worried buy a reverse osmosis unit with combined UV sterilizer to kill of the nasties living inside the pipes and in your tap, Can be had or custom made for under £200 and is much cheaper than bottled over a year and tastes pretty spectacular.

My tap water is actually cleaner than some of the bottled water available in the uk, has a lower nitrate and nitrite content .
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So you've spent £200 on cleaning your water?

How do you know that your tap water is so clean - have you had it tested?

If so why?
 
I buy bottled water, specifically evian because i think it tastes better than tap water. It says on the bottle that it comes from the french alpes, it comes from the mountains. i do buy other types of bottled water but some taste better than others imo. I don't try tap water, only in coffee. But in the uk the water has a lot of lime in it. It makes the kettles go all white inside, kind of disgusting. Lime messes up the ph of plants so i would think it messes up the ph of humans as well. lime could negatively effect the rate that you intake nutrients and make your more sick. But i doubt it does that.

I would prefer to buy a reverse osmosis machine like ro-man I would probably save the money in a few months cause i probably spend about £40 a month on bottled water. One thing i don't like about bottled water is the bottles. All those plastic bottles just too drink water, seems insane when it comes out the tap.

Maybe if they didn't add chemical cocktails in the water and we could trust the water suppliers not to add lithium and fluoride and whatever else they have lying around then it wouldn't be so bad.
 
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I live in Malvern and the water from the springs tastes so much better than any bottled water or tap water. and I live right by one of the springs so I guess I'm just lucky :p
 
I live in south london and my tap water tastes better than any bottled water I've had.

My GF only drinks Brita filtered from the tap, I think it tastes wrong.
 
For some reason the water in Edinburgh seems to taste pretty ****ty, have to use a filter otherwise even tea tastes different - I have done blind tests and could tell the difference between a cup with filtered water and a cup with tap water every time. Water up in Aberdeen tastes fine from the tap though
 
Tap water here is awesome, and if I'm out and about I'l just buy a can of Irn Bru, only time I ever buy bottled water is when I'm on a night out and feel like I'm overheating.
 
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lol they are still finding the odd wooden (YES WOODEN) main in London, the wood has long since rotten and the waters funnelling through the packed clay/dirt that was around the pipe. mmmmmm

In all seriousness, the UK has one of the strictest regulated water distribution networks in the world. But your dependent on where your water comes from, up here in Scotland some of the sources are so clean that literally the water is only passed through a screen which filters out microbes and any bits in it and that's it out into supply. That's pretty rare though and the majority are treated to some degree.
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very true i used to work for the water board in Glasgow
 
Tap water here is absolutely fine if not more appealing than most bottled brands. I have however been down south many times and it's pretty awful in comparison so I can understand why it would be the preference for most of you lot.
 
I've read in several different places now that bottled water tends to come from municipal supplies, i.e. it's the very same tap water that you get from your kitchen tap.

It's then not treated to anywhere near as rigorous checks as the water that reaches your tap as there's little to no regulation of the industry, so tends to be less clean.

On top of that there's the thousands of tonnes of plastic and the associated manufacturing pollution involved, and bottled water doesn't seem so good.
 
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