Sooo much pooping

[Olly]

Nope. I used to drink sparkling water, but once I became aware of the environmental issues surrounding it, I gave up buying bottled water at all.

 

If I'm out somewhere and need a drink, then I'll buy a small bottle, but usually I refill an old bottle and take it with me. I drink tap water - and yes, I do live in London! Thames Water has some of the highest standards in the country, and I find it tastes just fine.

 

If I'm in a restaurant I will ask for a jug of tap water, rather than bottled water. I hate the way that bottled water has become a fashion, with it being imported from more and more exotic places. Yes, the bottles are often recyclable but they still have to be manufactured and packaged in the first place!

[Tina C]

Yep we buy bottles occasionally when we are out - then re-fill them from the tap and keep on re-using them (we never go anywhere without a bottle of water).

 

I think the 'health' warning is something to do with bacteria from your mouth remaining in/on the bottle - but we just rinse them out - a few germs won't of any harm really We also use Sigg bottles (metal - water tastes nicer than fromplastic bottle) and, of course, plastic bottles on our bikes.

[bronze]

Only ont he rare occasions and we're out and stop at a garage etc for a drink. Prefer it to giving the children fizzy drinks and the like. I tend to reuse the bottles too and then they get recycle. Its not very often though as I dont go out much

[One Man Banned]

We don't buy a lot of bottled water, often if we're out in the car and feel thirsty we might buy then, but we still have some hanging about in the garage from the floods, so are working through that.

 

I happily drink our tap water, but of late it's been terribly chlorinated, and even running a basin of it smells like a swimming pool - a good job we have a Brita filter jug!

 

We recycle the bottles here tho, but have to take them to the tip ourselves, but our council are really good at the mo and have even got a facility to recycle the Tetra Pak style cartons from juice and the like.

 

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[Egluntyne]

I happily drink our tap water, but of late it's been terribly chlorinated, and even running a basin of it smells like a swimming pool - a good job we have a Brita filter jug!

 

I always notice a really strong smell of chlorine in the evenings!

 

I reckon that is when they doctor the water supply.

[Olly]

call me cynical, but I wonder if the 'germs' thing was an idea put about by bottled water companies to encourage us to buy more, not re-use the bottles. I mean, everything we touch is contaminated to some extent.

 

As far as the chemicals thing is concerned, I recall something last year where a woman had stored bottled water in a cupboard next to some bleach or cleaning things, and she found the water was tainted - the smell had leached through the plastic.

 

Fairly unlikely I'd have thought unless you buy lots and store it for ages. Just don't keep it next to the cleaning fluids! better still, don't buy it!

[feemcg]

My water comes from here and it's the best I've tasted, straight from the tap

 

[The Dogmother]

We use a filter jug too, mainly because the water here is so hard that whe you draw a glass of water, you have to let it stand as it's opaque. It also tastes rubbish. We re-use water bottles for when we're out and about or at the gym/school.

[Guest]

I have a water filter but I don't bother to filter drinking water just water for tea/coffee etc.

 

I also re-use plastic bottles all day - there is a filter system at work.

 

I'm still drinking my 4 litres a day for my lighterlife, although now they have said tea and coffee count towards the 4 litres when originally they said they were extra.