Eustice bans foreign mineral waters ...

Best news I’ve heard in a long time.
Foreign water is not helping the footprint or British trade.
It’s the only good news I’ve heard.

PS. Mind your own business! If I choose to buy bottled water or filters, that's what I'll do. It's cheaper than alcohol.

GrannyGravy13

I live in the same County as growstuff I have absolutely no problem with our tap water. I think we are fortunate to be able to turn on the taps and hey ho we can drink,

It’s only when travelling in Africa, Asia, South America that you really appreciate clean, available, drinkable tap water.

I would never say that folks shouldn’t purchase bottled water if that is what they want to spend their money on.

You live miles away from me. Essex is a big county and you have a different supplier. Your subsoil isn't chalky as it is in the north of the county. Anyway, you drink alcohol, so don't choose water as your drink of choice with a meal when you're out.

Elderlyfirsttimegran

The water from our taps is safe and perfectly drinkable. If there were to be a problem you would be informed. Contrary to the hysteria in this thread we’re very lucky in this country.

I'm not hysterical. It might be drinkable, but it tastes horrible and I don't want to drink it. As there's an alternative, I'll choose that, thank you. Some people choose to drink wine.

PS. Affinity Water don't want to know about the sand we have.

I live in the same County as growstuff I have absolutely no problem with our tap water. I think we are fortunate to be able to turn on the taps and hey ho we can drink,

It’s only when travelling in Africa, Asia, South America that you really appreciate clean, available, drinkable tap water.

I would never say that folks shouldn’t purchase bottled water if that is what they want to spend their money on.

I live in one of the dark pink areas. I was brought up on Merseyside, where we had Welsh water and it was much softer, and I have never acquired a taste for hard water - or the limescale in kettles or the scum in tea.

Elderlyfirsttimegran

The water from our taps is safe and perfectly drinkable. If there were to be a problem you would be informed. Contrary to the hysteria in this thread we’re very lucky in this country.

I don't think you read the post immediately above yours

Jane71

Are we really saying that in many areas the tap water is undrinkable, and if so why? Is it the added flouride, or chlorine?

It tastes horrible in my area because it's chalky (hard water). We also have a local problem because there's something wrong with the filtration system and we have sand. It's been like this for nearly a year. Most of the south east has chalky water. It's much softer in the north (including Scotland) and west (and Wales) because the water is filtered through granite.

Jane71

Are we really saying that in many areas the tap water is undrinkable, and if so why? Is it the added flouride, or chlorine?

I can vouch for growstuff's water being rather unpleasant. I grew up in a different part of the the same county! We didn't have the sand, though. That's a later addition...

We did have fluoride, though, which was supposed to be a Good Thing for our teeth.

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Little tip for any artistic table dressers ...........
The glass Harrogate water bottles look pretty on the dinner table. Just peel the label off and fill with your normal tap water, your guests will never know.
I haven't got time to find a red table mat to put underneath, but at Christmas the glass bottle picks up the lights and looks rahter posh unlike the green bottles.

The water from our taps is safe and perfectly drinkable. If there were to be a problem you would be informed. Contrary to the hysteria in this thread we’re very lucky in this country.

Had to buy bottled water when surrounding areas were told to do so. E coli was present in the drinking water. Probably not the last time this will happen judging by the state of the water companies

Are we really saying that in many areas the tap water is undrinkable, and if so why? Is it the added flouride, or chlorine?

Josianne

The taste of fizzy water particularly is so different in a glass bottle compared with a plastic one. Especially Perrier.

My preference is San Pellegrino. NOT that I buy it regularly. Too mean for that.

A lot of rudeness from the usual parties on here. Is it REALLY necessary? It is certainly possible to make a point without it.

While I certainly didn't have fancy bottled water as a child, when I was out (far beyond my curfew AND my boundary, but that's a different story) all day on my bike I frequently had a snack and a plastic bottle of drink with me. Hopefully squash, but as we were poor, frequently water. The only problem came when mum put it into a non-drink bottle. She was infamous for reusing any recepticle and I recall drinking from shampoo bottles and having water that tasted very slightly soapy.

It IS highly ironic that despite the daily lowering of UK standards now we're not being held to EU account, that we want to limit trade further. Talk about burning our bridges.

Hope you enjoy your fizzy Coke water growstuff. It might be all you can get here soon. Maybe time to invest in a soda stream?

Bring back Dandelion and Burdock and Tizer in recycleable bottles I say ?

Doesn't Evian sponsor Wimbledon? What will happen there then?

I agree Petera. I wonder how many people have a glass of wine with a meal. I prefer to have a glass of water - and I can taste the difference between brands and tap water, just as I expect others can tell the difference between different sorts of wine.

The taste of fizzy water particularly is so different in a glass bottle compared with a plastic one. Especially Perrier.

25Avalon

Growstuff, If you have a Kenwood Sodastream, and my aren’t they expensive now, you can fizz your tap water. I do that and add my own home made elderflower cordial.

But the water still doesn't taste the same and I'd have to filter it before I could use it. It's too much faff. So much easier to buy a (glass) bottle of fizzy water.

I drink local. At least it is saving on transportation costs.
When I lived in France it was bottles of Plancoet still water and Badoit sparkling. The tap water was horrible.
Now I drink bottled water from Tarka Springs, filtered seven times, and in bottles which have no chemicals. Our tap water is, however, fine.
A lot of my life was spent in London and I drank tap water all the time because I actually liked it, especially chilled.
It's just a case of finding alternatives to suit, so I can't see anyone losing any sleep over it.
Did you know the Queen drinks Evian bottles of water on her visits away. Whatever will she do?

MayBeMaw I am quite partial to Badoit

Badoit announced two years ago that they were going to stop supply in the UK, but I'm not sure if they actually followed through on it (It was only indirectly a Brexit issue, I seem to remember them talking about protecting their source so they had to produce loess and cutting out the UK was the easiest option).

This whole thread is bizarre – people repeatedly posting that fewer French bottles means less plastic (clue: it means less French plastic, but more British if – as Eustice has promoted it – it means higher consumption of British bottled water).

But the thing that is most annoying, and is seen on many other threads – particularly Brexit ones – is the attitude of “I don’t want it, so why should you have it?” (I’m not suggesting that’s what you have done MayBeMaw); and I write that as someone who doesn’t want bottled water.

It's fine to argue that we should be cutting down on single use plastics, and also to point out that we have high quality tap water (or ‘council pop’ as I once heard it called), but then to tell what they can have is beyond the pale.

Nope! My water still tastes horrible, even with lemon or lime in it. My drink of choice with a meal is cold fizzy water - and I've never found a tap with fizzy water

Qookers do chilled fizzy water as well as boiling water.
In the course of our years together we twice owned a Sodastream which produced carbonated water, also tonic and ersatz Coca Cola.
Ultimately got rid of it though because bottled water became available although DH claimed it was because it did not also produce the gin to go with the tonic. .

Growstuff, If you have a Kenwood Sodastream, and my aren’t they expensive now, you can fizz your tap water. I do that and add my own home made elderflower cordial.