Where do you get your drinking water?

vargoo · 23-07-2019 11:40PM #1

I tried a different forum but no response.

I'm not a fan of the tap here and I don't want to buy bottled.

Those here that don't do either of the above, what do you do?

I'm thinking some kind of filter for the tap but what type?

The Satanist · 23-07-2019 11:42PM

I blast myself with piss in a perpetual cycle of hydration

24-07-2019 12:10AM

When I first moved to Dublin, I couldn't drink the water. I could smell the chlorine, and it made me gag. Growing up, and in school, our water came from a well. The very moment I tasted chlorine in water my reaction was to get rid of it.

I've since gotten used to it. Now I can't tell the difference. Has anyone else experienced this or was it my imagination?

BuboBubo · 24-07-2019 12:12AM

I drink the tap stuff. It's grand.

mzungu · 24-07-2019 12:15AM

From the tap.

Thumpette · 24-07-2019 12:18AM

I won a renewel water filter yoke. It's actually great. I hate the tap water and I felt guilty as bejaysus with bottled

mad muffin · 24-07-2019 12:19AM

Britta filter jug.

Mrs OBumble · 24-07-2019 12:22AM

Water filter in the office. I fill a bottle home and take off home each day.

Atoms for Peace · 24-07-2019 12:24AM

Tap water or sparkling for me. When I drink plain bottled water it tastes like something's missing.

24-07-2019 12:36AM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Tap water or sparkling for me. When I drink plain bottled water it tastes like something's missing.

Chlorine and trace compounds from urban faecal matter, presumably

sligojoek · 24-07-2019 01:03AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

When I first moved to Dublin, I couldn't drink the water. I could smell the chlorine, and it made me gag. Growing up, and in school, our water came from a well. The very moment I tasted chlorine in water my reaction was to get rid of it.

I've since gotten used to it. Now I can't tell the difference. Has anyone else experienced this or was it my imagination?

As you know, I didn't grow up 100 miles (160km for the kids) from you. We had a rural group scheme. All run by local volunteers. The water was to die for. After I moved to England I didn't drink water or tea for a year. No wonder I turned into a pisshead. Supplied by Sligo CoCo / Irish water now. Whenever I get a chance I go up to the butt of Ben Bulben and fill 5 litres out of one of many streams. I'm told by the locals that it gets its flavour from thousands of years of sheep carcasses.

Zaph · 24-07-2019 01:06AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

When I first moved to Dublin, I couldn't drink the water. I could smell the chlorine, and it made me gag. Growing up, and in school, our water came from a well. The very moment I tasted chlorine in water my reaction was to get rid of it.

I've since gotten used to it. Now I can't tell the difference. Has anyone else experienced this or was it my imagination?

You weren't imagining it, I get the same smell if I leave the tap running for a few minutes. The water in D15 is foul, so we end up buying bottled water instead, which environmentally is crap, but at least we can drink it.

24-07-2019 01:13AM

Zaph wrote: »

You weren't imagining it, I get the same smell if I leave the tap running for a few minutes. The water in D15 is foul, so we end up buying bottled water instead, which environmentally is crap, but at least we can drink it.

You might be near a chlorine tap. Something in my brain is reminding me that the amount of chlorine in your water depends on your proximity to these taps.

Having said all that, I must admit this townie water is probably healthier. I spent 17, maybe 18 years of my life drinking delicious water from wells that were never serviced, and had no anti-microbial protections whatever (the well at home still doesn't), so we needn't get too romantic about it.

branie2 · 24-07-2019 01:14AM

A bottle

Zaph · 24-07-2019 01:40AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You might be near a chlorine tap. Something in my brain is reminding me that the amount of chlorine in your water depends on your proximity to these taps.

Having said all that, I must admit this townie water is probably healthier. I spent 17, maybe 18 years of my life drinking delicious water from wells that were never serviced, and had no anti-microbial protections whatever (the well at home still doesn't), so we needn't get too romantic about it.

A lot also depends on what part of Dublin you're in. I'm originally from the southside, and I'd happily drink the water from my parent's tap all day long. However I had the same chlorine smell issue when I lived off the Howth Road years ago.

24-07-2019 01:58AM

Irish Water via the filter, which is changed every six months, in the icemaking/water compartment on my fridge freezer. Well worth paying the extra for that feature, especially in this hot weather.

utyh2ikcq9z76b · 24-07-2019 03:02AM

Let your tap water gas off for a few hours in the fridge

punisher5112 · 24-07-2019 03:07AM

The tap....

Graces7 · 24-07-2019 07:01AM

Last rental but one the water stank of rotten eggs unless you ran it a while, Private well and no added filtering.

When I lived near Boyle, the shopping centre had a filter tap where you could fill your bottles? Seen the same in other small towns.

kneemos · 24-07-2019 07:27AM

Zaph wrote: »

A lot also depends on what part of Dublin you're in. I'm originally from the southside, and I'd happily drink the water from my parent's tap all day long. However I had the same chlorine smell issue when I lived off the Howth Road years ago.

Chlorine doesn't have a smell. When it comes into contact with fecal matter it reacts with it to create the smell we call chlorine.

Sorry.

FishOnABike · 24-07-2019 09:34AM

kneemos wrote: »

Chlorine doesn't have a smell. When it comes into contact with fecal matter it reacts with it to create the smell we call chlorine.

Sorry.

Not just fecal matter. Chlorine will react with any dissolved organic matter (mostly vegetation) to form trihalomethanes. https://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/trihalomethanes/

24-07-2019 10:34AM

kneemos wrote: »

Chlorine doesn't have a smell. When it comes into contact with fecal matter it reacts with it to create the smell we call chlorine.

Sorry.

Interesting. But why do swimming pools smell so strongly? It's not like there are floating turds or plant life to react to the chlorine.

It must be sweat and human body dirt? And it must be a reflection of the filth in the pool, the stronger it smells?

kneemos · 24-07-2019 10:37AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Interesting. But why do swimming pools smell so strongly? It's not like there are floating turds or plant life to react to the chlorine.

It must be sweat and human body dirt? And it must be a reflection of the filth in the pool, the stronger it smells?

Urine.

Again. Apologies.

Boom_Bap · 24-07-2019 10:37AM

I only use water from the Himalayas.

Anto Lynch · 24-07-2019 10:38AM

5 litre bottles of Tesco water.

Baybay · 24-07-2019 10:47AM

Filter unit fitted under kitchen sink.

GooglePlus · 24-07-2019 10:52AM

kneemos wrote: »

Urine.

Again. Apologies.

Well aren't we organic matter, so wouldn't the smell always be about if humans are in the pool, regardless of urine.

All those dead skin cells.

_Brian · 24-07-2019 10:53AM

From our own deep well, bore was done 1976/77 beautiful fresh water.

Corkgirl18 · 24-07-2019 11:06AM

Have a well at home and the water is great. When I moved out for college I couldn't drink the city water so used a Brita Filter jug which did take the manky taste away.
Now I drink away the tap water. I hardly notice the chlorine-y taste. Try a Brita.

kneemos wrote: »

Chlorine doesn't have a smell. When it comes into contact with fecal matter it reacts with it to create the smell we call chlorine.

Sorry.

Chloroamines are responsible for the smell. Monochloroamine is sometimes added to drinking water intentionally to disinfect it.

24-07-2019 11:07AM

kneemos wrote: »

Urine.

Again. Apologies.

But urine is sterile, no?

I'm not sure whether that means it simply doesn't have bacteria, or that it doesn't have organic matter. I feel like urine *shouldn't*have organic matter in it (shocked emoji)

Corkgirl18 · 24-07-2019 11:24AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

But urine is sterile, no?

I'm not sure whether that means it simply doesn't have bacteria, or that it doesn't have organic matter. I feel like urine *shouldn't*have organic matter in it (shocked emoji)

Organic matter here means organic compounds I presume! Urine contains things like proteins and hormones that are considered organic. Most molecules that contain the element carbon are considered organic.

Where do you get your drinking water?

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