Bottled Water! How safe is this!

Audi10 It's a myth about bottles being dangerous if they've been around for a while. As others have said, our tap water is perfectly safe. Buy a reusable bottle and use that

I filter all of our drinking water as ours sometimes tastes very chemically. If I want fizzy water I carbonate my filtered water. Cuts down on plastic waste.

We live close to a water tower and I presume this is why it tastes and smells like a swimming pool. I even smell it in the shower. Going to get a filter and some glass bottles to chill and have with various fruit squash.
I do think that everyone looks like babies sucking on their bottles.

I think the elderly who succumb to dehydration and urinary infections etc are the ones that could do with access to regular sips but I know some are reluctant as it means more trips to the loo.
I enjoy a bit of sparkling water with a slice of citrus to accompany dinner, though some to my tastebuds are salty.

i mostly drink tap water, but now and again i buy flavoured water with the morrisons meal deal, when finished i fill the bottles with tap and put in the fridge, in glasgow our water comes from loch katrine and is nice to drink.

It's utter madness. In the UK we are lucky that we can safely drink our tap water.

I work in a supermarket and it constantly shocks me that people buy so much bottled water. I'm always wanting to point out that they're not buying water, they're buying plastic. Perhaps more understandable if they buy sparkling water, but I don't understand them filling trollies with 8x packs of 6x 2 litre bottles - or sending children to school with a 500ml plastic bottle of mineral water instead of filling a resusable bottle from the tap. Look at the sodium content in some brands, it's not surprising they actually make you more thirsty, not less!

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I also have a separate filter tap with cartridges that last about six months. Our water is vile, although I’m aware it wouldn’t make you ill, it just a horrible taste. I avoid plastic bottles unless I get caught out. In Mexico Coca Cola is cheaper than water and they have a massive diabetes problem, so even if our water is unpalatable it is safe. Mostly.

Tap water use a filter jug if it tastes funny and my own refillable bottle.

I occasionally but a half litre bottle of water if I'm out, thirsty and don't have any, but I then re-use the bottle umpty-ump times by refilling it with tap water.

I've been drinking much more bottled water than before recently due to going back to work 3 days a week and covid. I take everything with me water, lunch, my own glass because some of my colleagues aren't as diligent at cleaning as I would like eg the microwave is pretty disgusting. I do so because my son has long covid and has gone from a fit healthy man to being registered disabled and I want to minimise whatever risk there is in going back to work so bottled water it is. At home I drink tap water.

How does water go stale? What does 'stale' mean when applied to bottled water?

If you leave a glass or plastic bottle of Scottish tap water (which is lovely to drink) in a place where it gets sunlight, some greenness (algae) will appear in the bottle.

There are idiots everywhere…… even idiots that put bananas and oranges in plastic bags in supermarkets.So are we surprised that , no doubt, the same idiots are buying water in bottles that costs more than petrol. Folk will buy anything if it’s marketed well!

We're really lucky in that we have our own water supply from a bore hole and it's lovely. It does tend to spoil us when drinking tap water elsewhere. We do always ask for a jug of tap water when dining out, we object to paying the inflated prices for bottled water which tastes like what we have at home!

We used to buy around 100 bottles per month and then suddenly I felt guilty about all that plastic, so we changed back to tap water. We get our water from a lake in North Wales which is soft water and nice to drink .
I bought a Chilli bottle which keeps to cold for up to 24 hours .
The worry the OP had about the water going stale in the plastic bottles that are bought , like most packaged goods they have a use by date .

Well I'm not ruining good Scotch by using tap water, it deserves a few drops of spring water so bottled it is! Other times I happily drink filtered tap water from my sports flask when out or a glass when indoors.

We buy ours from M&S and it’s a glass bottle. which can be washed out. We then use tap water.

I read, on social media, something along the lines of ‘The manufacturers don’t make water , they make plastic bottles’.
I wish I could find the quote to credit the person, because it certainly stopped me in my tracks!

the question was is it safe? and the answer is yes.
the other issues are surely not relevant to the question?

I'm really fortunate being from Birmingham where our tap water is the most palatable in the whole country (although I personally have to have something in it as I don't like plain water, from the tap or a bottle).
I've just spent the weekend in Hull and omg, the water there is disgusting, it was even horrible boiled to make coffee or tea. My son works there and fills a bottle to drink from at his desk but if he's not drunk it within just over an hour he says it seems to stagnate.
Whilst I was there, I noticed a couple of my fellow b&b guests drinking water from tetrapak containers, just like longlife milk or fruit juice.
I don't know where they bought them because I never saw them in any of the shops. The guys were Scottish so they may have brought them down with them.
I'm thinking these tetrapaks could probably be the first step in moving away from all the nasty plastic bottles for those who choose not to drink tap water.

Newquay
Dreadful waste of what.The container or the water?
It is ideal to keep a bottle or two unopened keeping an eye on the use by date as you never know when your domestic supply is like mine was recently interrupted.
Fortunately only a matter of hours.

Grany

We buy bottled water the water is mineral or spring water and tastes better than tap water which has chlorine in it.

The bottles are recyclable we recycle them.

We recycle the few we use, too, but I worry about whether they're actually reused in some way or just shipped off to another country where heaven knows what happens to them.

We really have to stop using plastic.

Tap water every day for my family. We are so lucky here in the UK, having clean & uncontaminated water on tap. Millions of people across the world would love to have the clean water on tap, which we take for granted.

We buy bottled water the water is mineral or spring water and tastes better than tap water which has chlorine in it.

The bottles are recyclable we recycle them.

When I first moved here the water tasted so bad I called the water board because it tasted so bad even in the tea. It was heavily chlorinated and left a black deposit. was told it was OK. So bought a water filter which I have used ever since.
Years ago in Spain the water was so bad we went up the mountain to a spring and filled our containers rather than buy water.

I used to drink bottled water and use it in the kettle and drinking appliances. The water where I lived then was so hard, and our house was at the end of a spur off the water mains. It tasted awful and we had to complain regularly and the water company used to come and scour out the pipes,
Now I live somewhere else and the water is fine. I use a filter jug and filter kettle and use that water in my steam cleaner and iron. I am glad not to see the plastic bottles in the recycling any more. They would stir my conscience. Have weaned myself off fizzy water too.