Fuzz

at the risk of getting this post removed......

If this is what drinking bottled water does to women, I'll go along with it.


Andy

Luke

I stopped drinking tap water 17 years ago. I have had various different water filtering systems..... Brita....!! Joke. My ex is a senior Goverment scientific officer. She is also german (Explains!!) they did a private test and found that after only 14 litres..it started to break down and pass all sort of stuff through the filter..............

I Find the cheaper bottled water is a pure ripoff... I can taste the fact that its just filtered water. At least with real Mineral water you loose that horrid taste.

There is a big difference between "Spring" and "Mineral " water in the legal sense.

I'm into "Hayat".. very nice and its not expensive.

Sure tap water is safe but god does it taste bad.


If I had the money ..which one of my clients has!! I showed them a system called "Crystal water" it uses about 3-4 different filtering systems. Hotels and large restaurants use it... It produces the finest water I have ever tasted. It costs £££££!!

Crush

So what exactly is the difference?

Is it worth buying one over the other? or is it a preference thing?

Luke

Crush ..I believe one is just filtered tap water.

But You can give me any bottled water and I will tell you the Rip off ones. When you havent touched Tap water for so many years you can taste the bad ones


think this is the filter system?? crystal

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south-star

Watchdog did a survey once and the result was bottled water is a waste of money.I never buy it.

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

sparkling bottled water good for the morning after

workshy_fopp

KrankyD - yer right - Pellegrino is the only one worth drinking, doesn't taste like water.
It contains among other things:

chloride
silica residue
bromide
lithium
&
Strontium - double .eek:

SUNDAY DRIVER

Peckham Spring gets my vote.

MarkO

When we were in Kent, the water was disgusting. You could literally see the lumps of chalk floating in it as it came out of the tap!

Since we moved up to Scotland, we've been drinking sh*tloads of tap water - just because it tastes lovely. It's like having Evian on tap.

What I don't understand, though, is when you see local Scottish people in the supermarket buying bottles of Strathmore mineral water. Why?!?!

I think a lot of people around here should try living in the SE for a few weeks, then they'd realise quite how lucky they are with the quality of their water....

Diablo

MarkO, yes scottish water is much, much better than the nasty hard stuff you get down south, but, for us lucky Scots that have had it all our lives its not as good as it is to you.

So we buy mineral water

Now, having said that, all, and I mean all of the Scottish sourced mineral waters are way better than the Evians and Volvics of this world.

Strathmore, Highland Spring, Strathglen, (all the Supermarkets up here sell own brand but Scottish sourced mineral water)

D

(Who is happy with own brand water, as long as its Scottish)

LOL...there's something else we do better up here

Crush

Absolutely D, I forgot that we have better water than horrible lot down south

The best water is found at 1000ft from a mountain side burn on a sunny day though

People are trying to be trendy maybe? I still believe people buy big labels to look trendy. It's unlikely that they would know everything about water that's been discussed in this topic. But now we all knpow better & can tell the snobs what to buy

Carlos The Jackel

Well my Scottish tap water never used to taste too bad until they put some multi millions pound water plant in - im not sure what they put in it but its revolting - even when very cold!! Its tastes of chlorine or something! Maybe they are getting it from the local swimming baths That would explane the yellow colour!

druddle

Buy it from Aldi - cheap as chips. Our cats drink it, and love it (when they are not slurping from the taps in the bath and sink).

A vet told us that the reason the cats wont drink much tap water is that its full of chemicals, thats why they drink puddles.

Dave

JamieMacdonald

Have you ever noticed what evian spelt backwards is?

The nicest water I've ever drunk was, as mentioned above, gushing from the side of a mountain in the highlands at about 1500ft. It tasted colder than ice and was so pure, the tap water wasn't bad up there either. Got a shock when I moved to the south of England and had to put up with this chalky cr@p! Starting to get used to it after 10 years though.

J

MarkO

I mentioned that to a neighbour when we were out walking over Christmas. He said it's all well and good until you find a dead sheep lying in the burn half a mile further up the mountain.

ChrisB

It's just adding some nutrients, that's all

Brendan Hughes

MarkO - been there, done that...

philc

.... you lucky English peeps; put lots of empty containers in your WRX, drive the twisties in Derbyshire to Buxton and go across the road from the council offices and place said containers under the tap in the wall.

Get the most delicious Buxton water - free for the taking.

Boooootiful.

Drive home slowly with WRX laden with full water containers