Drinking Spring Water

[joggerjayne]

There's a letter in this month's Running Fitness magazine from a reader who lives in the Malverns, and who says she's lucky because, when she runs, she can refill her water bottle from natural springs.

Would anyone here drink spring water around where they live?

Is it safe?

Isn't it full of bugs, and dead sheep?

[gingejbee]

The composition of what? I am simply stating that a "bad eggs" smell is due to dissolved H2S and not to "free" sulphur.

[DTCwordfan]

the mineral analysis does not refer to that as to free H2S - I do know where you are coming from though.

[gingejbee]

...and sulphates do NOT impart an "eggy" smell to water.

[karenmac60]

There was a soft drinks factory (very small, family owned) in my town up till a few years ago and they used water from a spring on their land to make the drinks with. They were delicious and far superior to any other fizzy drinks I've tasted. They sold the business to another company but not the spring and things just didn't taste the same and they soon closed. They are sorely missed - it was the taste of all our childhood summers :(

[joggerjayne]

That's a nice story, kazzamac ... (apart from the ending, obviously).

[giveup]

Remember Del boy and the Peckham Spring Water that glowed.

[boxtops]

When I worked in the brewery, they had their own artesian wells in the grounds, which they used for brewing the beer.

If you collect water from a spring, jj, it's fresh from the soil, so it should be OK unless the ground around is polluted. The dead sheep will be much further downstream.

[EvianBaby]

No springs where I live although there is an old quarry. I'm not sure I'd drink the water from it though, it's luminous green!

[Craftypig]

If the woman that drinks from the spring when she is running hasn't suffered any ill effects because if it, it must be safe to drink, surely?

[starone]

I used to drink from a spring water tap when I was young. It was lovely and cold and tasted different from ordinary water. Didn't do me any harm and I am still here at 84. I also remember drinking from some which was rushing into the river Avon where we used to play. Wouldn't do it now though!