You can get ’flu from that stuff.

For some reason, our cold water runs hot for the first little while, I think it must be close to the hot water pipes.

We use our fishtank water for our plants, they love it!!

Tap if I'm in the house (was filtered until I dropped and broke the Brita) and bottled when I'm out, i.e. whatever is available.

I live in Scotland. Our tap water comes from Loch Katrine, and tastes absolutely fine. If I lived in the south of England though, I wouldn't touch tap water.

I dont think they pump it from the Thames straight into your mouth. Thinking there's some kind of filtration process?

I grew up in a house where only kitchen tap water was really potable, as water from the bathroom taps tasted awful (from sitting around in the tank). Even though that has now changed, I seem to be stuck in the habit of going to a kitchen to get water even though there may be another perfectly good tap nearby.

Bottled water schmottled water. Overpriced and tastes worse than the nice chalky water of the South-East.

Evian = naivE

Never touch bottled water if i can avoid it. My south wales tapwater is good.


So it should be - its from a spring 200m up the hill

Perhaps, but it still tastes crap, feels greasy and when you make a cup of tea with it, there's a skin on the top.

I have no problem with drinking tap water, but it has to be cold and unless I am only having a quick it has to have ice in it. A LOT of ice- about half and half.

I have only really started to buy bottled water over the last couple of years. On a really hot day, a cold one from the fridge is great and it does taste nicer in some way.

I drink tap in work if I literally have nothing else and I am desperate

Yes, it's called the population of London.

Anywho, I drink Tap via britta filter jug thingy although if I'm not at home then I haven't really found any tap water in the UK that I can't drink. There was one time when I was on holiday up in the Summer Isles and the water was peaty brown that took a bit of getting used to. Unlike at home, it was meant to be that colour and tasted fine.

I used to work at a power station where drinking the tap water could do you serious damage unless it was from a drinks machine or drinking water tap. All the other stuff had been through the water treatment plant so was literally just water, pure H2O. It was so pure it would strip out salts from your body like a reversed isotonic drink.

I get pissed off with all the people who insist on only drinking bottled water. Especially the ones who reckon that tap water is recycled piss.

My mum is one of them and when ever she harps on about it, it's a bit of a struggle not to remind her that actually all water is recycled piss, wherever it comes from and that actually tap water is never made directly from the waste water we create.

So yes I do drink tap water but I prefer it cold. Very cold.

Interesting report from the Drinking Water Inspectorate (clicky). Reading about an incident in the Eastern Region


Seems the bottled water companies don't test too well

Exactly.

At least with tap water they actively destroy all bacteria that could be in it, and monitor it closely.