Bottled Water! How safe is this!

theworriedwell

Redhead56

I actually can’t drink our house water it’s like drinking bleach even though it’s been tested it’s horrid. I don’t like still bottled water but to stay hydrated I drink carbonated water mixed with ginger lemon or lime juice. It’s not something I drink everyday just when I am thirsty so I feel I should.

Where I live the water is vile. Ruins a cup of tea. We had a water filter fitted, it is under the sink and every six months I put a new cartridge in. Makes the water lovely and it costs about £40 a year for the cartridges.

I used to work in Turkey where bottles water is ubiquitous, but we had a fountain in our village where we used to refill our bottles. There was also a supplier of stands and bottles, like they have in offices, and a replacement cost about £1.

The water where I live is totally undrinkable, bleach and tcp taste, can't even use it to cook veg. I had a water jug where the filter that should last 1-2 months depending on usage used to last me 3-4 days so very expensive. So I ended up buying a Zero Water filter jug which though expensive (a replacement filter is around £10) actually lasts about 6 weeks.

Always drink tap water unless I'm abroad. No point paying for it unless you can't obtain it when travelling.

I use tap water in the kettle and it’s fine, but if I drink water from the tap that hasn’t been boiled I get minor stomach symptoms. Also it tastes like chlorine.

I was told by a water engineer a few years ago that if you are sensitive to smell or feel you can "taste" water you should fill a large bottle from tap and place in fridge for a couple of hours. All will disappear.

If the taste of your tap water is not to your liking try adding a splash of lemon juice to improve it.

I turn Thames Water's best hard water into draft ale in my basement. It tastes brilliant!
Water direct from the tap here in the Chilterns is hard and tastes fine as it is. It doesn't make good tea - especially green or jasmine tea. Filtered from a jug, though, and the tea is perfect. Real ale is best made with hard water (Burton on Trent is the centre of decent ale production historically) and the alcohol kills bugs in the water. In Dickensian times 'small beer' was just strong enough to kill the bugs in the foul water of the time yet none too intoxicating. Cheers!

It’s quite safe if you don’t mind drinking the microplastics which are leached into the water. Plus the fact, you mustn’t worry about how you grandchildren are going to manage on this earth in fifty years time regarding where the plastic bottles finish up.

Skydancer

My DS has a degree in chemistry and says never drink bottled water as the little bugs in it can multiply when the bottles are sitting on the shelf in the shop.

I used to work in a lab, admin role I'm not a scientist, and that was the view of all the scientists in the lab. They tested water as part of their role.

We never buy bottled water, very expensive and unnecessary. We live in an exceptionally hard water area but the tap water is perfectly acceptable, to us anyway. I can't believe how many people walk around with a plastic bottle of water in their hand (or bag) and worse still throw it aside once it's empty.

My DS has a degree in chemistry and says never drink bottled water as the little bugs in it can multiply when the bottles are sitting on the shelf in the shop.

Hetty58

ayse, aluminium leaches too - so kids water bottles are coated inside to prevent it. Having no faith in the coating (it's bound to get scratched) I replaced them all with stainless steel. Glass would be best, but too heavy and breakable.

Thank Hetty.

FAS from plasic of bottles causes cancer

I was warned not to keep plastic bottles in the car in the summer cos the heat does something to the plastic so I take a drinking bottle now with me of tap water. I always drink tap water in the house so thought why waste money on plastic bottles of the stuff. My recycling bin has a lot more room in it now too.

I remember Nestle taking their water for bottling from drought struck California, another time from a Native American Reservation, both 'paid' for by a few cents to the water companies. The Native Americans had to buy their water back in gallon containers. When there was a backlash, they sold their water business on.

I’d be glad to drink tap water if it didn’t taste as if it has come out of a swimming pool!

There is no need to buy bottled water. It's advertised as 'pure' and therefore suggesting that our tap water isn't good. I drink water from the tap in hot drinks and cold.. If you are really wanting 'pure' water you can get a water filter jug and keep one plastic bottle to fill for on the move. There is also an option to have a filter fitted to your kitchen tap at source as well. I've lived in a country where water from taps isn't safe( for western people) so I'm very grateful for our clean water here.

South London tap water is almost undrinkable. It never used to be that bad and I often resort to bottled water.

I do remember one episode of 'Come Dine with Me'. One of that weeks contestant was reall wine snob!!. One day the lady who was hosting, provided some very expensive, very fancy bottled water. This ran out, so she filled a couple of the empty bottles from her kitchen tap and took it back into the dining room. The wine snob, drank it and then remarked how totally different it was drinking such wonderful water!!!!!!

I used to buy sparking water but now have a Soda Stream.
I filter my water for the kettle, get flat water out of the fridge which has a filter,cooling thingy built in .

Just look at your wee. If it’s dark then you need more water, if it’s a straw colour then you are drinking enough. We never used to cart water about and we lived in hot countries.

I have drunk tap water for years before it became fashionable. My DGC were laughing the other week because in a photograph of when my 12 year old DGD was born, there was the same water bottle I use now! I must admit a couple of times I have had to clean what looks like moss out of it, but I am still here. By the way I was also wearing the same fleece jacket I still wear now.

theworriedwell we also have a water filter which is good for general use but I can’t drink flat water at all. That’s why I buy carbonated water but the bottles are recyclable and I use them on my veg patch for seedlings.

Sago

We lived in the south of England about 35 miles fro London, our water was gross.
We went away once and on our return a pool of water in the sink had worms in it.
I bottled them up and called the water company, I was told they were freshwater shrimps and perfectly normal?.
After that we boiled and filtered our water

Sago ?

Redhead56

I actually can’t drink our house water it’s like drinking bleach even though it’s been tested it’s horrid. I don’t like still bottled water but to stay hydrated I drink carbonated water mixed with ginger lemon or lime juice. It’s not something I drink everyday just when I am thirsty so I feel I should.

Where I live the water is vile. Ruins a cup of tea. We had a water filter fitted, it is under the sink and every six months I put a new cartridge in. Makes the water lovely and it costs about £40 a year for the cartridges.

We used to have a jug water filter but now we have a cartridge which is fitted under the sink and a separate tap by the sink which provides our drinking water and water for tea and coffee. The cartridge lasts for six months and the water tastes fine.

ayse, aluminium leaches too - so kids water bottles are coated inside to prevent it. Having no faith in the coating (it's bound to get scratched) I replaced them all with stainless steel. Glass would be best, but too heavy and breakable.