Bottled water drinkers

Ruu_Old · 22-07-2006 12:29PM

I'll use my money in any way I see fit and buy the expensive bottled water, OP thank you very much!

Seriously though when I'm at home, I drink tap water and most places I got I bring a big bottle filled from the tap so I rarely need to buy any.

emeraldstar · 22-07-2006 12:47PM

but some people do have concerns about the fluoride added to tap water... i dont know if it has ever actually been proven that there is an advantage to fluoridated water, and if there is then it is only for your teeth...what about the rest of your body that's having this chemical poured into it??

Giblet · 22-07-2006 12:50PM

My tap water has a load of limescale in it, but hey I still drink it

Femelade · 22-07-2006 01:04PM

our tap water has loads of limescale in it too, this is only happening lately, but i still drink it. I drinl alot of water so it woul dbe very expensive for me to buy water for drinking at home, when out and about i would buy a few bottles alright. At work i get them for free. In a town near me yrs ago, every household had to buy bottlewater for their home, as the tap water was actually brown..this went on for years..

abetarrush · 22-07-2006 01:32PM

What a stupid thread

Did ye ever think people might just like bottled water more? Lots of people's water at home is Hard, and not nice to drink

Nehpets · 22-07-2006 01:33PM

I drink bottled water when I'm out and don't want to or can't go home. I drink my tap water too though.

Dave! · 22-07-2006 01:34PM

Giblet wrote:

My tap water has a load of limescale in it, but hey I still drink it

Lava pours from my tap, but I still drink it! Cos I'm so manly :cool:

bluto63 · 22-07-2006 01:39PM

abetarrush wrote:

What a stupid thread

Did ye ever think people might just like bottled water more? Lots of people's water at home is Hard, and not nice to drink

The whole point of this thread is that there is no difference between bottled and tap water and the only thing that makes you think theres a difference is in your mind. Maybe next time you could try reading through the posts

Nehpets · 22-07-2006 01:55PM

bluto63 wrote:

The whole point of this thread is that there is no difference between bottled and tap water and the only thing that makes you think theres a difference is in your mind. Maybe next time you could try reading through the posts

but who said there was a difference? Besides the American's in the videos you found?:rolleyes:

ThrownAway · 22-07-2006 02:01PM

bluto63 wrote:

The whole point of this thread is that there is no difference between bottled and tap water and the only thing that makes you think theres a difference is in your mind. Maybe next time you could try reading through the posts

I think bottled water tastes better that's why I buy it...what's the harm in that. There is a big difference between Evian and Volvic the same goes for tap water. They all come from different sources that's why they taste different.

Any chance you're a smoker or have a high sugar diet that could be a reason why you can't tell the difference.

ThrownAway · 22-07-2006 02:04PM

Nehpets wrote:

but who said there was a difference? Besides the American's in the videos you found?:rolleyes:

When I was in France it actually took me a while to get used to the bottled water there...it tasted so different.

Different mineral contents people

Mossy Monk · 22-07-2006 02:12PM

bluto63 wrote:

This is to all those people out there who prefer drinking bottled water over tap water because it is "fresher" or something.

http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/05/bottled-water-is-bull****.html

This clip from Penn and Tellers Bullsh*t shows just how stupid bottled water really is and that there is no difference between it

you should try drinking the tap water here. its is manky. where i grew up though it was lovely

aidan24326 · 22-07-2006 03:06PM

bluto63 you are over-generalising in saying that 'bottled and tap water is just the same thing' it isn't necessarily. As other posters have said even bottled waters can have significant differences in taste, quality, purity etc.

Where I'm originally from in the west the tap water quality is good so there's no need to buy bottled water but where I live now in Dublin the water tastes crap and smells little better so I make the choice to drink bottled water. Totally depends on where you are.

But you do have a point about bottled waters in general. Some of them are not even from an underground spring they are just semi-purified water coming from the same source as your tap water (though this wouldn't apply to the likes of evian, volvic and ballygowan). These higher quality brands of bottles water do not contain the chemical additives (fluoride,chlorine etc) which makes them taste much better but also makes them more open to containing harmful microorganisms bacteria etc. There is also, surprisingly, no real regulation of the bottled water industry which seems strange to me.

projectmayhem · 22-07-2006 03:11PM

i drink water like a fish (about the recommended 2ltrs a day), and i started when i was pubescent (get rid of the spots etc.) using tap water. for a long time i got horrible headaches and deduced that it's possibly the tap water, so i switched to bottled... never looked back.

punky · 22-07-2006 03:13PM

Drinking bottled water is a waste of money and it's also environmentally irresponsible considering the amount of packaging/waste involved and the carbon produced from the whole process (including transport from France for Evian etc.).

Our water here is fine. Buy one bottle and refill it every morning from the tap. It won't stay nice and cold all day but it'll be totally drinkable. If you don't care about the environment, at least think of the money you'll save or a long period of time.

projectmayhem · 22-07-2006 03:26PM

punky wrote:

Drinking bottled water is a waste of money and it's also environmentally irresponsible considering the amount of packaging/waste involved and the carbon produced from the whole process (including transport from France for Evian etc.).

Our water here is fine. Buy one bottle and refill it every morning from the tap. It won't stay nice and cold all day but it'll be totally drinkable. If you don't care about the environment, at least think of the money you'll save or a long period of time.

nearly all of the bottles i drink are recycled.. in fact in this house we recycle nearly everything (it's a twice weekly trip to the recycling center for us!). on top of that, read my post as to tap water giving me headaches.

bitching about the environment to people who drink water just makes you look like a hippy tbh

Lump · 22-07-2006 03:32PM

My tap water tastes like Shít....... FACT

Tha Gopher · 22-07-2006 03:56PM

Even worse than bottle heads are people who insist on only drinking water theyve filtered and put in the fridge, and look at you in shock as you put a glass under the tap and drink away. FFS, the vast majority of household tap water is relatively fine to drinlk straight.

Mind you, dont know why but tap water in large buildings (my workplace, my old school, my old college) is nearly always terrible.

aidan24326 · 22-07-2006 03:59PM

projectmayhem wrote:

i drink water like a fish (about the recommended 2ltrs a day), and i started when i was pubescent (get rid of the spots etc.) using tap water. for a long time i got horrible headaches and deduced that it's possibly the tap water, so i switched to bottled... never looked back.

There's no way to know if it was really something in the tapwater causing your headaches is there?

InFront · 22-07-2006 04:09PM

Our house is quite close to a Cl/ Flurride tank on the water line, the smell of it is manky, we never use it for drinking. Theres nothing the council can do because they have to make sure theres enough Cl/ Fl spread out foir people further on the line. So we only drink bottled water at home, and if you came to my house you prob wouldnt drink from the tap either.:)

My brother bought a house in the countryside last year with his wife, their water comes from a well in a field behind the house and is not chlorinated. Does anyone know how this can be safe? Sometimes you even have to let the tap run because the first dirty, especially in stormy weather fsr.

I think those 'health water' companies are complete pisstakes however. Wasnt there one that claimed to have reversed a cancer case, or at least to have played a part in it?:rolleyes: Vulnerable target$ I suppose.

hydra_ · 22-07-2006 09:12PM

bluto63 wrote:

The whole point of this thread is that there is no difference between bottled and tap water and the only thing that makes you think theres a difference is in your mind.

That might have been the point of your thread but it's completely untrue as has been pointed out. Tapwater is treated with chemicals etc, spring water isn't :rolleyes:

bluto63 wrote:

Maybe next time you could try reading through the posts

You should take your own advice.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 22-07-2006 09:51PM

Sure at least we don't have it as bad as Fulubnis in Malawi... or that kid that has to walk 15 miles to get drinking water that might kill her.
Now the fluride in my drinking water might make me retarded (slightly more so), but sure at least I'll live.

Wertz · 22-07-2006 10:18PM

bluto63 wrote:

The whole point of this thread is that there is no difference between bottled and tap water and the only thing that makes you think theres a difference is in your mind. Maybe next time you could try reading through the posts

You're welcome to call round to my house anytime you're in the area and sample our fine H2O with traces of aluminium sulphate, fluoride salts and chlorine. You can taste every single bit of it, especially at this time of year.

I still drink it but sparingly and only after it's been through a charcoal filter.

I don't particulalry like paying for water when I'm out and about, but I'll tell you this; it tastes a thousand times better than the chemical soup from the local lake.
No difference? Maybe you should have your sense of smell checked.

BTW you do realise we're the only country in the EU that have mandatory water fluoridation?
No referendum, nothing.

Bixmoo · 22-07-2006 10:20PM

Bottled water tastes so much nicer.... How can anyone say that there is no difference in taste at least... Maybe only my tapwater tastes like mouthwash.

Penn And Teller, they make Michael Moore look balanced

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