Eustice bans foreign mineral waters ...

We never buy bottled water. If I want to drink water (which is not often) I turn the tap on. I saw a woman yesterday walking with a plastic bottle of water in her hand, she took a long swig from it then threw the bottle in the pretty stream at the side of the road! Whilst British mineral waters might also be in plastic bottles, if foreign imports are reduced that might boost the UK producers. Isn't that what we should all be doing, supporting our local economy.

My husband fitted a filter tap in our kitchen so we have ice filtered water to drink whenever- or to fill water bottles if we want.

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?

Taste if a different matter altogether.

Several areas have had recent warnings to boil water, as it is not safe to drink. I know of areas of SW coast and also Yorkshire- at the time that millions of litres of RAW sewage is being poured into waterways by waer companies.

And I am fully aware many here will not face up to the facts- and the problems are 3 fold

a) terrible investment into infrastructure by private companies over a long period of time, to please shareholders- nothing new here.

and 2 very recent

b) shortage of HGV drivers

c) and the broken supply chain of the necessary chemicals, importing from Europe, to purify water.

I am also fully aware that many here will totally refute the cause. And that many others totally understand how and why.

Oh and I forgot, of course

d) pouring of tons of raw sewage concurrently with a) b) and c) above - the combination of which is a total disaster. No hysteria there at all- just fact.

As for Fiji water and other exotic locations, I imagine more and more of those will come from huge distances, like NZ, Chilli, etc- to make up for the loss of EU bottled waters- rather than less. Like loads of other produce- again, environmentally inexcusable.

SewnSew

My husband fitted a filter tap in our kitchen so we have ice filtered water to drink whenever- or to fill water bottles if we want.

E-coli is not filtered out, I am afraid.

MerylStreep

You claim to be an environmentalist. I would think that you might be pleased that these plastic bottles won’t be coming to the uk.
Personally I’m over the moon ??? ?

Hear, hear.

Warnings were VERY clearly given since 2016, and particularly in 2018, by all the experts involved. They were called project fear (again) by Gove, Hannan and many more.

One of the problems I forgot to mention above, is the fact those chemicals cannot be stored for long- so if the supply chain is hindered, for whatever reason/s, things escalate very quickly.

Never mind e-coli- cholera is frequently mentionned recently.

HannahLoisLuke

MerylStreep

You claim to be an environmentalist. I would think that you might be pleased that these plastic bottles won’t be coming to the uk.
Personally I’m over the moon ??? ?

Hear, hear.

I imagine you didn't bother to read my reply/replies.

MayBeMaw

^And then some here say that the EU is being petty. WTMF^ ?
What does the “M” stand for?
I have heard of WTF, WTAF and MILF - I hope there is no connection with that

Mother?

Hands up anybody who carried bottles of water around in their childhood.

No, but there was always water available in those days. Remember lining up for the drinking fountain in the school playground?

Good to see that bottled water and therefore plastic bottles won’t be coming. I love fizzy water and I therefore have a water filter jug ( and recycle the filters) and a soda stream in which I make my own water. I also make some cordials myself.

I long ago switched to a water filter and chill the water in the fridge. Do like fizzy water though, it's very refreshing sometimes.

We were living in the middle of the Abu Dhabi desert when bottled water first took off in the U.K. Our water arrived in a bowser and came out of the tap hot and brown. We had to filter it, boil it, and then keep it in the fridge before it was fit to drink.

So on the usual summer visit to the U.K. we were amazed to see people buying plastic bottles of the stuff you could get for absolute peanuts, - clean and cold just out of the tap.

Cleverest con trick ever of the French, IMO, but of course bottled water had long been a thing in France - I remember on my first school visit at 14 being warned that all too often the water was not ‘potable’.

France has just arrested a UK trawler for illegal fishing, more tit for tat, this round of negotiation is far from over. All sorts of restrictive measures are threatened in addition.

Cleverest con trick ever of the French, IMO, but of course bottled water had long been a thing in France - I remember on my first school visit at 14 being warned that all too often the water was not ‘potable’.

Goodness, we were forever being told that just about any water abroad wasn't safe to drink, not just the French stuff.

Katie59

France has just arrested a UK trawler for illegal fishing, more tit for tat, this round of negotiation is far from over. All sorts of restrictive measures are threatened in addition.

I heard on the news that it was a Scottish boat.

Which seems a tad ironic... Poor old Scotland didn't want any of this nonsense...

I imagine it won't be long until the French, and then other EU countries, begin to sue the UK for polluting their waters, fish, shellwish, etc- fist France as the Channel is very narrow- the tons of sewage being poured into it will not stop in the middle- depending on currents reaching Spain , Germany, Holland and others quite soon.

Yes, let's stick to our own regional water. Anyone from the Kent area who could recommend a beverage to enjoy with the Whitstable Oysters?

Kali2

I imagine it won't be long until the French, and then other EU countries, begin to sue the UK for polluting their waters, fish, shellwish, etc- fist France as the Channel is very narrow- the tons of sewage being poured into it will not stop in the middle- depending on currents reaching Spain , Germany, Holland and others quite soon.

Oh for goodness sake, Kali2. Don't you read anything??

The EU has plenty of its own sewage floating around

Here's another link for you. There's plenty more info for you on other European countries if you care to look.

www.surinenglish.com/local/201903/22/inquiry-ramps-into-sewage-20190322100645-v.html

Bottled water does nothings others than line pockets of shareholders.

Just sitting up in my cozy bed in Canada (five hours behind the UK ) sipping from my plastic bottle of water and feeling positively naughty! Must change my ways?

What’s interesting is that the two top selling brands of bottled water in the UK are Volvic and Evian. People must prefer them to UK bottled water for whatever reason. Third was Harrogate.

MaizieD

^Cleverest con trick ever of the French, IMO, but of course bottled water had long been a thing in France - I remember on my first school visit at 14 being warned that all too often the water was not ‘potable’.^

Goodness, we were forever being told that just about any water abroad wasn't safe to drink, not just the French stuff.

In my early 20s I worked for an airline whose routes included Lagos (Nigeria, not Portugal).

We were told by the company doctor that tests had been carried out on 3 different samples of water from the hotel where the crew stayed.
1, from the carafe supplied in your bedroom.
2, from the bathroom tap
3, from the swimming pool.

Guess which was the cleanest? Yes, the swimming pool water!
And that’s despite some of the crew once going for a very late night swim - and colliding with a dead body ?

Llamedos13

Just sitting up in my cozy bed in Canada (five hours behind the UK ) sipping from my plastic bottle of water and feeling positively naughty! Must change my ways?

Why on earth are you, in your own home, presumably supplied with clean running water, drinking bottled water?

Sorry, but that has me completely baffled...

Sorry, Witzend. I was really thinking of water in Europe.

Would water in, say, Africa still be regarded with suspicion?