Tap Water Or Sparkling Water?

[sandyRoe]

I find it easy to drink a litre of sparkling water each day.  I wouldn't find tap water so palatable.

Any thoughts?

[Chipchopper]

I only drink tap water in tea coffee etc.

Sparkling at bed time. 

[Hazlinny]

Always drink tap water - live in an area where it is good.

[jourdain2]

Agree with you totally Sandy - I can't bear tap water (or most still waters either).

[Old_Geezer]

Sparking costs and comes in plastic. So not a good opition unless you like burping.

 

Tap tends to be ok, but chilling it for cold drinks, and boiling for hot, helps. Having it plain isn't overly inviting, particularly at room temperature or above.

[rowanwitch]

Can drink still including  tap but usually with a dash of no added sugar squash it doesn't have to be plain water to meet your daily target, just non caffeinated/ or alcoholic drinks.  I mostly drink sparkling but recycle the bottles as I prefer the brands that come in glass .

But if  I drink still water it must be ice cold.

 

[barry1010]

Caffeinated tea and coffee does count towards fluid intake, as does the fluid we get from food - that accounts for around a third of our daily fluid intake.

If you are not thirsty and your pee is clear and doesn't smell offensive, you are drinking enough.

Nothing wrong with sparkling water if that is what you enjoy, I've always drunk tap water 

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

I'd go for tap if those two were the only choices as I don't like sparkling water. I always have still bottled water. Tap in tea, coffee etc. 

[ToraToraTora]

other way round, ice cold tap water, lots of it! Can't stand sparkling has a horrible taste.

[davebro3]

I never buy bottled water - amuses me when I see folks staggering out of the supermarket with x litres of the stuff.

Our tap water is fine - if you want to drink water.

[ToraToraTora]

Just sitting here now I have a 1 litre steel bottle that will get filled up at least 3 times. It's great this time of the year because it comes out cold. In the summer I have 2 bottles, one in the fridge getting cold and the other for drinking.

[Blubster]

What surprises me, is that sparkling (soda/carbonated) water costs more than tonic water in some supermarkets. Why should this be, when they add quinine (or something similar). For example, Morrison's tonic water is 69p per litre, and soda water is 80p per litre.

[sunny-dave]

Depends entirely on where I am living :

Northants (UK) the tap water was vile - over chorinated and 'dead' tasting - so I drank bottled

 

Dartmoor (UK) - beautiful and fresh from the tap

 

Kerry (Ireland) - my half of the village is great - from a fresh well source and lovely to drink, the other half of the village is from some corporate pipe and is almost brackish at times.

[Lie-in King]

My tap water is perfectly drinkable & I keep a filter jug (without a filter) permanently topped-up in the fridge.

If I'm out, I might buy a bottle of sparkling, but it's rare that happens.

[naomi24]

Our tap water is horrible to drink so I buy bottled still spring water.  The tap water in Iceland (the country not the shop) is fantastic.  If the pubs here sold it I'd buy that instead of alcohol.

[retrocop]

I have never enjoyed tap water or bottled still water. I always have 2 dozen bottles of Sparkling water ( Highland Spring) as my skin is quite dry and advised to drink more. I won't drink any other kind. 

[MargoTester]

According to NHS website 6/8 glasses of fluid per day which can include lower fat milk, tea, coffee and sugar free drink. Not sure what constitutes a glass! Other sites vary so not sure who to believe so I drink when I'm thirsty. 

[ubasses]

You can actually smell chlorine when you turn the tap on sometimes.  Always bottled still water, only 39p 2litre bottle in Aldi, perfectly tasteless

[10ClarionSt]

I very, very rarely drink water on its' own. I don't trust the purity of either tap or bottled water. Recent studies of tap water from all areas of the UK found that samples contained faecal traces, cocain/heroin traces along with traces of Ibuprofen. People will say they are minute traces, but they are traces nonetheless and should prompt more questions for the bosses of the water companies who are paid for doing virtually nothing.

I don't trust bottled water because it just sits in warehouses for months on end, mostly in plastic bottles, but before that it isn't purified - it''s just filtered from source then poured into plastic containers.

The labels on some bottled water in the supermarket said: "Filtered over millions of years in the mountains of Bavaria. Best Before Sept 2024" 

Don't drink water folks. It's v-e-r-y bad for you! 😁

[wolf63]

I drink tap water, straight from the water dispenser in my fridge.  It is lovely.

 

[Canary42]

Buying water is IMHO the height of extravagance.  You'll be buying oxygen  next  😉 😁  😉 😁  😉 😁  😉 😁  😉 😁