Bottled Water

[mikey4444]

I keep seeing people in Supermarkets with trolleys full of packs of bottled water. I live in South Wales and our water free from the tap is wonderful.

Do you think people who buy water have more money than sense ?

[Euphemia]

I used happily to drink tap water but while on chemotherapy I experienced a very strong taste of chlorine. Hence I now drink bottled water.

[gness]

Hey Mikey....it`s a fun thread! Am I wrong or can/could you go into a chemist and have a puff of clean air or oxygen?

[EcclesCake]

I buy bottled water when out and about but at home I draw off bottles from the tap and put them in the fridge, the fluoride/chlorine whatever evaporate off quickly and it tastes fine.

[rsvp]

haven't read through all the answers but a big downside of bottled water is that if you leave it either in the sun or unused for too long after opening, all sorts of nasties breed it the plastic bottle. Tap water is treated to stop that.

[mikey4444]

I went on a beer brewing course a few years ago and the chap running it said that we should draw our water from the tap and then leave it 24 hours, so that the fluoride would evaporate off. The beer I made were pretty bloody good....I must make some more soon.

I have a friend in Somerset who always says that he never likes to drink water unless it has passed through an apple first !

I remember seeing cans of Scotch Mist on sale in a gift shop in Edinburgh.

Like I said, a fool and his money, etc.

[parkie]

Our water in Essex tastes, in turn, like TCP, Musty, and fine.
I object to paying for bottled water but when our water is so temperamental we don't have much choice.

[bushbaby_de]

Berkshire tap water is pretty manky unless I filter it then chill it, which is what I do at home, but I need to sip drinks when I'm out and about so I also buy bottled water. But now that my kitten has started obsessively licking the kitchen tap I might switch to bottled water at home too!!!!

[LochNessMonster]

I swim in the stuff all day and its free. No meters up here in Bonnie Scotland.

Nessie :)

[firewatch]

I am in south east wales and the tap water is fine. Herefordshire to hard had to filtered, somerset grew up on a spring fed supply so was lovely!