Bottled water

TK Maxx sell water in a carton. Called 'Water in a Box'

Which is an eco-friendly Somerset spring water packaged in climate-friendly cardboard cartons.

I only drink bottled water, lemon and lime sparkling spring water. Not because I don't like the taste of tap water although I do have filters in the kitchen, downstairs loo and the bathroom which are all main supplied. I don't drink anything else no tea, coffee, wine etc.

I drink tap water, and bottled fizzy water.

My tap water is awful, it generally tastes like drinking a swimming pool, sometimes with TCP in it too. It taints veg and anything cooked in it. I used to have a Zero water filter jug but the filters are around £16 per filter and barely last 3 weeks now so I have got a Brita Max jug and filters, nowhere near as good but I can at least drink it. I only buy bottled water if I am out and have forgotten to take a bottle out with me.#, and if there are glass bottles available I buy them raather than plastic.

After more than thirty hours without water we are grateful for the deliveries of bottled water by SE water. It looks as if the problem may be resolved late this evening.
I take it nobody would refuse bottled water under these circumstances.

The best water is Peckham Spring Water. 🤣🤣

I always use tap water.
Sometimes the taste is a bit of, but we are a hard water area.

I couldn’t justify the cost of buying bottled water.
Even in the very hot weather we’ve had recently, the tap water was deliciously cold and refreshing.
Also, I wouldn’t have enough room in my fridge for lots of bottled water.
We all pay water rates so use it.

When visiting any EU countries I always buy bottled water there. I wouldn’t risk tummy upsets.

Seems to be a lot of smugness here on who has the best water.

Where l live, our tap water comes from the Lake District. Which claims to have the best drinking water in the country. According to United Utilities

However by the time it reaches me It is the treated with chlorine. Which l think is a common place practice throughout the UK

So, it ends up tasting like swimming pool water. l use a water filter jug from Tesco with modestly priced replaceable cartridges.

Really improves the taste. Still creating waste with the disposable cartridges but less than single use plastic bottles.

Tap water every time for me.

Our tap water doesn't taste too bad, but its very hard water so we always filter it. Our main issue is the water pressure is awful and the supply goes off frequently. We keep a few bottles of water for emergencies. I try and re-use glass bottles of mineral/spring water.

I used to think water was one of life's luxuries. Pure....out of the tap and Birmingham water was soft as silk and from the Elan Valley. Welsh water was soft too and deliciously cold. Lancashire water was good. Hard water has its perks. I love it for my skin, not so good for the white goods and white streaks around the taps....London water is best avoided. Undrinkable. Bristol water is almost palatable. I remember when we didn't have a water meter oh how lucky we were to live in those days. I wish I still did. Baths a-plenty.....water the garden to your heart's content. Water was almost free. Not anymore!

Never bought water for taste or to avoid drinking tap water. Do occasionally by a bottle of lemon lime sparkling water only as I enjoy the taste and the bubbles.

I feel very lucky as my water comes from a bore hole on my land - no mains water available. It is lovely and cold and, as I only drink water, tastes really good. I do notice the difference if I drink the local Welsh water.

I have a lot of time for Welsh Water. They are now not-for-profit, and I am on their priority list - whenever there is an outage they are straight round with bottles of water on my doorstep. And their communication is good too.

Welsh Water here. About 2 years ago I had a very strong smell of chlorine coming from my kitchen taps.
Called Welsh Water out, they tested it and it was indeed over the recommended amount!

As long as I can remember both in Scotland and in Denmark we drank tap water with no ill effects, although I do remember that my doctor father recommended mothers travelling to a different area with infants under a year, to boil and cool tap water when away from home for the children.

Until about the late 1980s most of us bought bottled water if we travelled in France, Spain, Italy or Portugal as the drinking water may have been perfectly safe to drink but we attributed tummy upsets when travelling to the different quality of tap water. And a good number of Spanish coastal town had cleaned salt water in the taps!

All bottles whether plastic or glass plus aliminuim soft drinks and beer cans are recycable everywhere within the EU now and you get your deposit back when you return them within the country where they were bought.

So there is no real reason healthwise to buy drinking water, but if people prefer the taste, or believe it is healthier then that is their business, not mine.

Have bought bottled water over the last 4/5 weeks as the water from the tap is always warm. This week I've bought extra as there have been water problems in the area with some people having to do without. I'm also thinking that after the hot weather has finished I'm going to keep a supply at home just in case as per govt guidelines in case of emergencies.

We used to have our own water supply, a well. When we first bought the house we had the water tested and then we had to do it again years later when we sold the house.
As far as I'm aware this is a free service offered by councils if a resident is concerned about the purity of their drinking water.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

The drinking water from the tap upsets my stomach. I have a brother with the same issue. It also tastes horrible, we’re in a hard water area.

Looks like we will be without water until tomorrow morning! Good job we have a few bottles and they should deliver some to us. Third outage since we arrived here.

I have a refillable one, so hardly ever buy bottled water, but was particularly naffed off at Geneva Airport, to have to pay €6!! each, for tiny little 250 ml bottles of water. And this was some years ago - goodness knows what they’re charging now.

Re non Brits and water, a niece of dh came from Singapore to a UK boarding school for A levels. There were a number of mainland Chinese pupils, one of whom had apparently completely blocked the entrance to niece’s accommodation with masses of cartons (12 large bottles of each) of mineral water, ordered from Amazon.

Apparently the girl (newly arrived from China) was under the impression that drinking tap water made your hair fall out!
We thought that in the area she was from, maybe it was very polluted, and did.

Nevertheless if the experiences here over the last months are anything to go by, it pays to be prepared for frequent outages. A vulnerable water supply system is no joke.

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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 sometimes buy bottles of sparkling water to add to fruit squash. Otherwise, it's tap water with a couple of ice cubes. If we eat out I buy a small drink and ask for a glass of tap water. I seldom buy bottled water in a pub/restaurant.