Bottled water

I wish I had an alternative to bottled water but I can't drink my tap water, it tastes vile. Apparently it's something to do with the 60 year old pipes but many residents in the block say the same thing.
I do recycle the plastic though.

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I went to the Royal Welsh Show yesterday. There were several drinking water refill points.
I filled up my empty water bottle and you could smell the chlorine in it!

Our flats certainly have a lot of plastic water bottles in the recycling bin after the outage over the weekend. We still have a supply, but the water company message this morning said they are setting up bottled water stations proactively as a precautionary measure.

Welshy

Milest0ne

We only have spring water which is particle and UV filtered. After very heavy rain the water can be yellow. Not very good for the laundry.At the moment we are trying to use as little water as possible as there is no overflow from the settlement tank. One of our garden ponds has already dried up. We are worried incase the surrounding moor catches fire. We will be reliant on the fire fighters and helicopter water drops. The photo was taken from our front door last time the moor caught fire.

Awful those wildfires. We have had them here too in the Welsh mountains. But fortunately not this year.
I hope you will be just as fortunate Milest0ne.

I spoke too soon

Public warned as huge fire causing stink that people can smell 30 miles away ....

When I first moved to Germany in the 1970s, everyone bought their water in crates of 12 glass bottles. The Germans hate still water so the default is.always sparkling. I always assumed.this was.a.throwback to the post-war days when conditions were dire and tap water really was not reliable. It takes a long time to get it into people's heads that tap water is the cleanest option. My parents in law probably never did believe it.

A deposit was paid on the glass bottles and crates, but most people just swapped one for the next one, so you just paid for the water each time. Then plastic bottles were slowly introduced like in the rest of the world. Nowadays Soda Streams are very popular and most people have them so they can still have their water sparkling.

All drinks containers, cans, plastic and glass bottles and crates, now have a deposit on them and you feed them into a machine on your way into the supermarket and get a voucher which you can cash at the till. People bring huge bin liners full of plastic bottles and put them in the machines, so they are bringing back the light plastic bottles. I really don't see why - they must be drinking gallons of Coke or Fanta, or perhaps it is water, it should be banned.

watermeadow

Not everyone has a water meter. Thames Water tried to foist one on me but thankfully they couldn’t fit it. This means I have to pay an ‘average’ amount which is certainly bigger than it would have been otherwise.

I'm a tad puzzled - it's generally understood I believe that a water meter results in cheaper bills (I remember a poster on another thread making a comparison based on her experience, before-and-after).

So why would you object to having one? It's a genuine question as I'm considering asking my water authority to instal one.

So I can’t defend my preference for bottled fizzy water?
I hardly think the planet is going to be seriously endangered by my contribution especially as I also (whisper it) use my car instead of cycling or buses- largely because we only have one an hour- and have been known to buy ready mixed cocktails in cans., espresso martini and Pimms being my favourites.
I think I can live with the risk of microplastics round my neck at my age but to be on the safe side I’ll stick to cashmere.

We drink San Benedetto sparking water. Glass bottles.

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MawsRosie

Plastic waste is recycled as you must know- often very imaginatively.
I once had a very soft scarf which felt like cashmere which was made from recycled plastic bottle!
I buy bottled sparkling water for the principal reason that I prefer the taste which I assume I am permitted to do?

But to make and remake costs the environment

watermeadow

Not everyone has a water meter. Thames Water tried to foist one on me but thankfully they couldn’t fit it. This means I have to pay an ‘average’ amount which is certainly bigger than it would have been otherwise.

Do you mean you pay more with your ‘average’ amount?

If that’s the case, you would have been better to have been ‘foisted’ with a meter, surely?

Not everyone has a water meter. Thames Water tried to foist one on me but thankfully they couldn’t fit it. This means I have to pay an ‘average’ amount which is certainly bigger than it would have been otherwise.

Bottle water has 240,000 plastic particles. Also the French bottled water “ scandal involves Nestlé Waters admitting to using prohibited treatments—such as ultraviolet light and activated carbon filters—to purify groundwater for brands like Perrier”. I am tap water both in France and the UK.

Snap * TanaMa* ,we also have a bore hole and our water tastes like water, it's the sort people would pay money for!

Welshy

Milest0ne

We only have spring water which is particle and UV filtered. After very heavy rain the water can be yellow. Not very good for the laundry.At the moment we are trying to use as little water as possible as there is no overflow from the settlement tank. One of our garden ponds has already dried up. We are worried incase the surrounding moor catches fire. We will be reliant on the fire fighters and helicopter water drops. The photo was taken from our front door last time the moor caught fire.

Awful those wildfires. We have had them here too in the Welsh mountains. But fortunately not this year.
I hope you will be just as fortunate Milest0ne.

Thank You. Just hoping that no idiot decides to have a BBQ on the moor

Milest0ne

We only have spring water which is particle and UV filtered. After very heavy rain the water can be yellow. Not very good for the laundry.At the moment we are trying to use as little water as possible as there is no overflow from the settlement tank. One of our garden ponds has already dried up. We are worried incase the surrounding moor catches fire. We will be reliant on the fire fighters and helicopter water drops. The photo was taken from our front door last time the moor caught fire.

Awful those wildfires. We have had them here too in the Welsh mountains. But fortunately not this year.
I hope you will be just as fortunate Milest0ne.

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?

It varies, some have a tank in the loft but many don’t.We don’t, we have a combi boiler.

Keeps me warm though

MawsRosie

Plastic waste is recycled as you must know- often very imaginatively.
I once had a very soft scarf which felt like cashmere which was made from recycled plastic bottle!
I buy bottled sparkling water for the principal reason that I prefer the taste which I assume I am permitted to do?

Probably left traces of micro plastic around your neck.

Our water comes from the lakes, so corporation pop for us, tbh, it does get filtered by the fridge freezer.

On the Greek islands all the residents drink bottled water

We only have spring water which is particle and UV filtered. After very heavy rain the water can be yellow. Not very good for the laundry.At the moment we are trying to use as little water as possible as there is no overflow from the settlement tank. One of our garden ponds has already dried up. We are worried incase the surrounding moor catches fire. We will be reliant on the fire fighters and helicopter water drops. The photo was taken from our front door last time the moor caught fire.

Mamie

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.

I take it nobody would refuse bottled water under these circumstances.

Not in this weather, surely!

I hope the problem IS resolved later this evening - and assume SE water are trying their best, but I know how inconvenient it can be without mains water.

The last time we experienced this, I was beginning to take on the role of carer for my OH having myself just been discharged from a three-month hospital stay, that resulted in the necessity for 2 nurse visits, evening and morning, to carry out a procedure which had to be done in sterile conditions - and hand-washing for the nurses, and me, was essential! Thank goodness for bottled water (but what a faff it was), if it had not been readily available, I might have had to have been re-admitted!

My OH was pre-diabetic at the time and commented he was drinking so much water he thought the 'taps would run dry' - and then, they did.

I used to have a Brita filter but now I have a water filter on my tap. I can’t drink tap water I can smell it and it tastes horrible. The dogs refused to drink it and would only drink from the pond. Now I have the filter they drink the water.