Bottled water

I drink carbonated flavoured bottled water and make no apology for it. I don't drink tea, coffee, alcohol etc. Each to their own. I also have water filters at home, others drink it but I don't. I pay for it and don't see why it's anyone's business but mine.

You don’t feel guilty about all that plastic?

I like San Pellegrino in glass bottles for a treat, but for everyday we have a soda stream to make our own sparkling water, I don’t know where the OP gets the idea that we have the “ safest water in the world” given recent events. I do have a filter on the tap in the kitchen which filters out 5 elements in tap water, I don’t like the taste of chlorine.

Never bought bottled water and I’m not fond of sparkling. Very common when we lived in Françe, but there was nothing wrong with their tap water either.

Spuddy

I fully agree with you 100%!

I drink LOADS of cold water every 24 hours, more than 8 glasses at a time but I use refillable bottles such as those sipper bottles with the straw in the lid that goes into the bottle and refillable metal bottles, then just refill with cold water when needed.

I'd never buy a multiple pack of cold water, throwaway bottles, drink the water then toss the bottles!

Apparently we should drink about 8 glasses (2 litres) of liquid per day, it doesn't all have to be water. Drinking considerably more puts a strain on your kidneys and I've even heard of people dying from drinking too much water. So take care.

Jaxjacky

Never bought bottled water and I’m not fond of sparkling. Very common when we lived in Françe, but there was nothing wrong with their tap water either.

I'm helping the French economy. I just love their water, especially the fizzy!

PS I'm also helping their wine sales. Well it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?!

Water is my main drink of the day with one cup of coffee per day and the occasional G &T. I drink a specific brand of bottled water because it contains extra magnesium which helps with the cramp I suffer from.
I must admit to being concerned now about the plastic issue and may rethink things.

I dislike the “flat “ taste of bottled water.
I also am horrified by the amount of plastic used…. One of the houses near me has a bin full to the brim with this plastic every single week! Appalling.

A few years ago, whilst staying at a caravan site up north, the water was so bad it curdled the powdered milk I used in our coffee. We had to buy bottled water to make it palatable, and we have found that more often than not, the water at some touring caravan sites is just not fit to drink.
So we always now use bottled water when on our caravan travels. but at home we drink tap water, as its delicious. Birmingham water has always been good.

Tap water for me .

I drink bottled water, I prefer it.

If plastic water bottles could be punctured they wouldn't look all that huge, compared to say the standard plasticised milk 'bottles' in supermarkets. Each to his own. I don't see why people who prefer bottled water should be specially castigated on that account.

We're in Thames Water territory and our water tastes foul at the best of times. I'm not inclined to risk the worst of times so we use a Brita filter jug.

grandMattie

I dislike the “flat “ taste of bottled water.
I also am horrified by the amount of plastic used…. One of the houses near me has a bin full to the brim with this plastic every single week! Appalling.

Depending on the area you live in, many local authorities have excellent recycling schemes (like ours) and I have heard of a wide range of products which can be made from recycled plastic including: drinks bottles and food trays, polyester fabric for clothing, wheeled bins and food caddies.

No Gsm I don't feel at remotely guilty about all the plastic. I don't package it but I'm rather glad it doesn't come in glass bottles, it would be impossible for me to lift. I recycle all the plastic bottles after flattening them all by treading on them. Same way I recycle my huge washing liquid bottles, bleach bottles etc. Should I try to buy those in glass bottles although I've never seen them in stores maybe they exist.

I always drink tap water, even in restaurants, so it’s really gone against the grain to buy some massive plastic bottles of water to keep in the cellar, following the latest government directive and recent GN thread. It’ll keep for years though.

Our milk comes in glass bottles too, and they’re reused umpteen times.

I remember being ill on holiday in Cornwall and the only thing I could keep down was bottled Cornish water. It tasted lovely and was full of minerals which I’m sure helped me get better sooner.

The recent scandal is shocking, but in general I do wonder why people pay for bottled water, and have to lug the heavy load home - not to mention all that plastic.

When we lived in the Abu Dhabi desert (where dh was building an airport) our water came daily in a bowser, hot and brown. We had to a) filter it, b) boil it, and c) then keep it in the fridge to make it fit to drink.
Ever since then I have been grateful for water which (usually!) comes clean and cold out of the tap.

Who else remembered the ‘Dasani’ bottled water, that was about to be launched in the U.K. by IIRC Coca Cola, until one of the tabloids revealed that it was going to be coming out of an ordinary tap in Sidcup? 😂. End of that, then.

I have since seen it on sale in other countries, though.

I filter all my water but recently thought I'd try bottled instead. I had four days of cramps and diarrhoea. Water absorbs chemicals from the plastic bottle, so you might be ingesting water that is even less pure than tap water.

I now keep a supply of tonic water in glass bottles.

In the UK I always drink tap water, we pay our water rates so why on earth would I pay extra in buying water in a plastic bottle!

Tiley

In the UK I always drink tap water, we pay our water rates so why on earth would I pay extra in buying water in a plastic bottle!

Exactly.

Even if the bottles do go into the recycling bin surely it is better not to create that plastic in the first place.

Calendargirl

You don’t get charged for tap water if you ask for it in a restaurant.

You will get charged if they bring you bottled.

You do in some restaurants not that I mind as it still involves work for them.

If you run a bar selling alcohol you are legally obliged to provide water for free. We take ours off the cool pump but could be straight from the tap.

So much plastic which is put in recycling bins ends up abroad, and contaminating the oceans. It is a disgrace,

I don’t know how to stop the plastic from recycling bins going abroad. Maybe the Green Party has the answer? We attempt to reduce the amount of plastic we use, but with difficulty. How do you recycle your plastics GSM?