What water do people drink?

Iristxo

What water do the most health-conscious here drink? I started drinking bottled water a few years ago and continue to do so. See below:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/chloramine_in_tapwater_is_it_saf

Do people here drink straight tap water or do you just use a Britta filter? I looked into the reverse osmosis device but oh, so expensive!

johndoe99

i've been drinking bottled for years myself, i've tried loads and have stuck with 'Deep RiverRock'. I always hated the taste of my tap water, but once a few weeks back was in a hurry and being used to the bottled, the tap water was revolting, tasted like it was full of chemicals. I've never used a Britta filter, but can't see it beating Deep RiverRock. I also hate Ballygowan, it tastes close to tap water.

Khannie

Britta filtered here. I intend investing in a reverse osmosis one at some point. It is lovely water, especially for tea / coffee.

Macha

Bottled water is just horrendously bad for the environment so it's tap water for me.

FYI, tap water is more strictly regulated & does better in blind taste tests than bottled water, although obviously the taste can differ by region.

Oryx

At home its tap water (from a well) which is filtered thru our fridge. If I have to buy water I buy the cheapest one on the shelf because I think its a complete scam. A lot of it is filtered tap water anyway. I watched a programme a few months ago which pretty much confirmed that, but I cant remember the name of it.

I try not to buy water much anyway and use my own water bottle from home most of the time because the bottled stuff is pretty environmentally damaging.

treborflynn

the wet type

mikemac

We have our own well down home and it's so much better then what the council have in this rented place.

So I use the Brita filter with the council water, jug in the fridge

I buy a lot of sparkling. If I invested in a soda stream I could probably make my own sparking

syklops

I bottle my tap water and then chill it in the fridge. Cold water has little or no discernible taste, compared to slighly warm, been sat in the pipe for the last 8 hours tap water. IMO this is the taste most people talk about, that and filling your glass of water from the hot tap :rolleyes:

Miss Informed

I'd never drink tap water, no way. If you're concerned about fluoride, by the way, switching to bottled drinking water won't help, since you're most likely consuming it through your boiled tea/coffee, and definitely absorbing it in the shower or bath (baths are worse, obviously).

Anyway, I'm drinking Deep river rock at the moment because it's really cheap (six packs are 21c per litre in Tesco). Otherwise I tend to buy Comeragh spring from Aldi (although, these were recalled in 2008 due to some form of bacterial infection.. maybe I should stop buying this water, come to think of it...) or another brand from Lidl, the name of which escapes me at the moment.

Surely a distillation unit would provide you with the cleanest water? What's all this reverse osmosis jazz??

syklops

Yep, you sure do sound informed.

Gummy Panda

Bottle water only because my tap water has a horrible chlorine taste and britta filters didn't seem to improve it.

tricky D

Yup. Food and Drink did a blind tasting many years ago and filtered Manchester tap water won easily. Penn and Teller did a blind test for their Bull**** series which had similar results.

Macha is right, tap water is tested many times a day, mineral and spring waters don't get tested anywhere near as much, some only 4 times a year.

The environmental impact is awful: packaging, transportation, lack of packaging recycling.

Then there's the health effects: plenty of contaminants, pollutants. Also actually read the ingredients on the label: bicarbonates at 0.4 grams/litre!; sulphates, nitrates among other contaminants. You should see the flocculants (white little flakes) that are exposed in some bottled waters after being defrosted.

Then there's the cost which is well over 100 times the cost of tap water. Classic case of The Emperor's New Clothes.

Filtered/distilled tap water is best by far all matters considered.

ClareVisitor

Tap. Why waste your money?

Oryx

Miss Informed wrote: »

I'd never drink tap water, no way. If you're concerned about fluoride, by the way, switching to bottled drinking water won't help, since you're most likely consuming it through your boiled tea/coffee, and definitely absorbing it in the shower or bath (baths are worse, obviously).

If this is off the topic I apologise. But you can absorbe fluoride from your bath? Seriously? What about bubblebath/oil or any other smelly stuff you put in then, are we full of that, too?

JustAddWater

2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen and it's good enough for me

tricky D

Dihydrogen monoxide ftw

Iristxo

Thanks to all of those that took this seriously. I could add that my using of bottled water started after reading a book written by a doctor who had cancer and he could of course not put a finger on the cause of the cancer but he suspected the water from the tap as one of the possible causes among many other possibilities. But of course that would attract even more smart comments from people who are prone to it. So if you have nothing constructive to contribute just abstain from contributing at all. To all of those that have made an actual serious contribution to the thread I thank you again.

Iristxo

JustAddWater wrote: »

2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen and it's good enough for me

Ad it happens seemingly tap water has a lot more than those two, and possibly bottled water a well by the looks of it.

Töpher

Prefer the taste of tap water, and it seems to do a better job of quenching my thirst. Maybe it's because bottled water from a shop is never cold enough, I find it always tastes a bit funny and leaves me dying for some of the free stuff.

omen80

treborflynn wrote: »

the wet type

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......................
MY SIDES ARE SPLITTING!!!! Probably the funniest joke anyone has ever made!!





Anyway, for me it's tap water. Bottled water is a rip off and a scam.

Macha

Iristxo wrote: »

Ad it happens seemingly tap water has a lot more than those two, and possibly bottled water a well by the looks of it.

Well if you didn't add, for example, chlorine, you might have someone else, ie waterborne diseases & viruses.

This video should be mandatory viewing in schools about what a scam bottled water is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0

ronaneire

Amazing the amount of people you won't drink tap water and prefer to purchase bottled.

Fitting a drinking water filter under your sink with a separate tap/faucet is not that expensive. Works out much cheaper then having to purchase bottled water and better for the environment.

Using reverse osmosis is over kill and will remove all natural minerals.

unknowngirl!!

Always use bottled.. Our tap water is awful so we buy Riverrock. I'd drink tap water in other houses if it tasted ok though..

juice man

What water do people drink ?
Answer Water , your answer is in the question LOL HARD

stoneill

Tap water.
I rarely buy bottled water, and the few times I do it would be the stores own brand.
I lived in hard water area for a while and that water was full of limescale, tasted horrible. The water in Dublin is fine, tastes alright and rarely any problems with quality.

Leeg17

I buy bottled water, a once off and as seldom as I can, to hold my tap water

Elohim

Leeg17 wrote: »

I buy bottled water, a once off and as seldom as I can, to hold my tap water

Was told recently by a friend of mine some scare stories about refilling bottles due to plastic leeching, bacteria etc. I'm not sure how much to believe but he certainly believed it! Anyways, bottle water for me. My tap water has levels of arsenic, uranium and some other stuff so I stick with the bottled water whose levels I'm completely ignorant of

chin_grin

Tap water + britta filter + squirt of lemon juice = Yum.

Iristxo

Elohim wrote: »

My tap water has levels of arsenic, uranium

How do you know this?

Elohim

Iristxo wrote: »

How do you know this?

I live in the US at the moment. All the levels of various elements are tested and reports of local water results are sent to every house.

tan11ie

Tap water but i have a filter system in.

Tap water.

Life's too short to be honest. The tap water in my house is of relatively good quality, so I don't feel any need to be vigilant about it. There was a short time about 5 years ago when the water wasn't very good, but after a few months using a brita filter it was fixed (turned out to be the house pipes, not the water itself).

I'd never drink tap water in an area I wasn't familiar with though.

Dark Phoenix

Volvic still water. Ballygowan or lidl sparkling water I really love sparkling water!

westies4ever

lidl (cant remember exact brand name) - 6 half litre bottles is like €1.79 or something? have no objections to tap water but mine is rank.