Water Of The Week

[sunny-dave]

Well my liver needs a night or two off.

Scored on a totally random (and invented) basis :


Badoit Red : 95%

All the lovely, minerally, Badoit taste, but "intensement petillante" (that's "very fizzy" for our resident monoglot europhobes). Easily the best sparkling water.


Volvic 90%

Possibly the best still water - can be an acquired taste but well worth the effort - I tend to think they've backed off the sulphur gas slightly these days, but that may just be my ageing sense of taste.


Strathmore (sparkling) 85%

My favourite UK fizzy water - good clean taste and lots of bubbles


Buxton (still) 85%

I resent this being marketed with the Nestle branding splurged all over it, but they don't seem to have messed with the product and it's (imnvho) the best still UK water.


Severn Trent tap 25%


It may be free (well almost) but it reeks of chlorine, is horrid to drink straight from the tap and poisons any decent scotch you add it to ...

... but it does make a decent pot of tea and, if you filter it, then it is just about OK for taking your medication.


ttdave xx

[DTCwordfan]

I do not drink water - fish fornicate in it.

[tonyav]

Mostly recycled as well, Dt !.

[sherrardk]

You need to take a trip to Malvern and fill up some bottles for free.

[sunny-dave]

Ah yes sherr, - been there, done that whenever possible :)

[DTCwordfan]

Live in the east end of London and what is it, seven to nine times through a human body......gross. Em's in the big smoke I think but not sure where........

[tonyav]

Not just London either I believe,DT.

[EcclesCake]

I'm a fan of Badoit with food but find it too minerally to drink on its own, I have never seen Badoit Red but will look out for it.

I used to stay at a hotel just down the road from the Malvern water bottling plant, the water in the rooms was from Herefordshire!

[tonyav]

Nice water down in Sherbrook valley, Cannock Chase. Lovely fresh water spring there.

[DTCwordfan]

Off your list, Volvic for me.. you have missed Evian off your list, though I think its soapy and would score it at 50%

So where's Highland Spring and my favourite, Hildon (still over sparkling). That I would put at 95....

[sunny-dave]

Hildon's good - but only tends to be in restaurants/hotels rather than supermarkets?

[DTCwordfan]

Waitrose sell it......

[sunny-dave]

I sort of guessed they might :+)

[DTCwordfan]

Booths for the North West too - but then they are a pseudo Waitrose visually and they cross-market. (their cafés are good though).

[ttfn]

Have you ever tried the waters in Bath, Dave?

[maggiebee]

We have lovely soft water up here in tartan land and can drink water straight from the tap. Tastes lovely. Never bought bottled water.

[joggerjayne]

Drunk only nine times?

The amount of fresh water on the planet is constant. The water we have now is the same water that we had when dinosaurs (or Adam and Eve, if any of our R&S ABers read this thread) were drinking and weeping the water. I'm guessing that all the fresh water on the planet has been drunk and wee'd thousands of times, absorbed back into the soil, popped up out of springs, bottled or collected, cleaned, filtered, and then given back to us so that we can, basically, drink dinosaur wee.

And THAT is why you should only drink wine and vodka.

[joggerjayne]

"weeing the water"

Not "weeping the water"

[wiltsman]

Just spell Evian backwards!

[DTCwordfan]

personally, wilts, evian is like my idea of what "broken waters" taste like.......

[joggerjayne]

(tries not to think about DT's imagery)