Bottled water

Wheniwasyourage

Our mains water is lovely and cold and tastes just like water. I think in England cold water comes through a tank in the attic, doesn't it, not like here?

No tank in my attic. All water comes from the mains.

Guilty as charged here as well Luckygirl3 I drink bottled water with added magnesium to combat frequent cramp.
I do take your point about plastic bottles. Maybe I should have a rethink.

Tap water mostly for me, but I go to a spring and fill a good few bottles whenever I'm in the area. I always feel its doing me the world of good, but thats probably wishful thinking.

Nothing wrong with the tap water here in the Midlands. It is quite hard so we have to put up with limescale on the taps etc but fine to drink. I do buy soda water, I'm in two minds whether to get a Sodastream type machine for that.

Sodapop can't you take a magnesium supplement with tap water instead of buying water? It might be cheaper.

MawsRosie

^When we lived in a City I was always amazed at the immigrants who had trolleys full of bottled water^

How could you tell their residential status?

They were 6 ft tall blonde Amazons with a Swedish accent ?

I watched a tv programme about bottled water some time ago, lots of bottled waters were tested and some had very high mineral content.
Conclusion was that as bottled water wasn’t tested you could be consuming dangerously high levels of minerals.

I prefer the chalky tap water across the southern downlands, but I do get English carbonated water occasionally.
I do feel there's something wrong with transporting water in lorries, especially from Italy and France.

butterandjam

MawsRosie

When we lived in a City I was always amazed at the immigrants who had trolleys full of bottled water

How could you tell their residential status?

They were 6 ft tall blonde Amazons with a Swedish accent ?

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Luckygirl3

Some of the bottled water sold in supermarkets is filtered tap water!

I only buy water if it's been hand-cupped out of a river by virgins, filtered through their linen petticoats and carried down the mountain in oak barrels to Click and Collect in Tesco car park.

We fill a bottle from the tap several times a day and keep in the fridge. We live in a southern water area. The water is lovely. When we lived in outer London the water didn’t taste as pure and nice. We also buy fizzy water to have with cordial and soda water to make spritzers. When I think about it, we drink a lot of water one way or another.

MawsRosie

Wheniwasyourage

Our mains water is lovely and cold and tastes just like water. I think in England cold water comes through a tank in the attic, doesn't it, not like here?

No,drinking water comes through your kitchen tap from the rising main. You should not drink water from eg bathroom taps which are fed from the tank in your loft

Ah, thanks MawsRosie. That explains it, and I didn't realise that your kitchen water comes from the mains. All our cold water taps have mains water and it's only hot water which comes from a tank (unless you have a combi boiler, of course).

I only buy water if it's been hand-cupped out of a river by virgins, filtered through their linen petticoats and carried down the mountain in oak barrels to Click and Collect in Tesco car park.
Love it !

kittylester

I shoild also own up to having 24 large bottles in the garage. Just in case.

Best keep an eye on the use by date or you will need to water the garden with it. The plastic degenerates and gets into the water.

The only time I have bottled water is when the supply stops ... rather frequently! ... and Welsh Water kindly deliver me loads.

We’re lucky to have great tasting water, thank you Affinity Water! I bought a SodaStream and now make my own sparkling water, so no need for all those plastic bottles, although I must admit to having a few bottles in a cool dark place in case of emergencies.

Water comes from Kielder here - soft which is good for various reasons. It’s also known as ‘Council pop’. I’ve a built in water filter, but rarely use it.

I buy bottled water and recycle the plastic bottles. Our tap water does not taste very good. I’m not a great water drinker and a little lemon squash makes it more tasty.

I buy bottled water . My favourite is San Pellegrino which you can still get in glass bottles, though its getting hard to find. I remember once in a smart Italian hotel asking for sparking water and being given a menu with about 12 different waters to choose from.

I have a dozen bottles in our cool hallway just in case the very hot weather interferes with the water supply. I dont usually buy bottles as our water tastes fine. I recently was picked randomly to have our water supply and taps tested. It passed!

Wheniwasyourage

Our mains water is lovely and cold and tastes just like water. I think in England cold water comes through a tank in the attic, doesn't it, not like here?

No most properties have mains drawn water.

butterandjam

Luckygirl3

Some of the bottled water sold in supermarkets is filtered tap water!

I only buy water if it's been hand-cupped out of a river by virgins, filtered through their linen petticoats and carried down the mountain in oak barrels to Click and Collect in Tesco car park.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We were still living in Middle Eastern deserts when the bottled water craze started, and were pretty much bemused during our null month back home.

Where we’d been living, the water came in a bowser. It came out of the tap hot and brown.
I had to filter it, boil it, and then keep it in the fridge.
And people who had clean, cold water coming out of the tap were paying for bottled water, around 10,000 x per litre, what the tap water cost.
Should add that we’ve never had any problems with our (Thames) water. I know others might have had issues though,

Biggest laugh to me was the planned launch some years ago, of ‘Dasani’ water in the U.K., IIRC a subsidiary of Coca Cola. But they had to scrap it after one of the tabloids revealed that it was coming out of a bog standard tap in Sidcup. 😂

Our annual month! Bloody autocorrect….

Yes I think it is unusual to drink only bottled water but that said, a lot of people are concerned about the quality of their drinking water. We do have a water filter jug that we keep in the fridge and drink that water but otherwise only buy bottled water for emergencies.

The only bottled water we buy is a dozen small bottles that we chill and offer to the posties, delivery drivers etc and during the extremely hot weather recently they’ve been very grateful. We also keep a couple in the boot of the car for emergency purposes but other than that we use tap water.
The water in our bathroom cold tap comes directly from the mains………with a combi boiler there is no water storage tank.

Whenever people moan about tap water, I think of the scene from ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’, when they were all trekking across some god forsaken desert, hardly any water, and one chap falls off his camel and gets left behind. Not missed for a while.

Then our hero, ‘El Lawrence’, sets off to find him, despite them all telling him not to.

They are both given up for dead, but no, in a scene that brings tears to my eyes whenever I watch the film, Lawrence returns with a half dead chap on the back of his camel, exhausted, parched beyond belief, and they are given some precious water to revive them.

Must have been warm, dirty, in a horrible bag made out of camel skin or similar, but very welcome.

So whenever you turn on a tap and water gushes out, think of gorgeous Peter O’ Toole, and what he had to put up with!