Tap Water, at home do you drink it, or have bottled?

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Ours tastes a bit chloriney and not nice.
Am thinking to either :

get a water filter...would this help?
Or just drink bottled water

What do you drink?

I buy bottled spring water. It does taste better and spring water has life preserving qualities. I don't drink tea or coffee so water is my main source of drink so I might as well drink the good stuff.

I'm in Yorkshire so I drink it - it's nice here. In hard water areas, I'd only drink it if I had no other choice.

I love the tap water here. It’s very hard though so only drink it straight when cold with ice in, if I’m making a hot drink with it I will filter it with a brita first or else the ‘hardness’ overwhelms the taste of the drink you’re making.

Drink it. I actually think that bottled
water has a weird taste to it and much prefer tap. I keep a 3L jug in the fridge so it’s always very cold and always have ice.
You can’t beat iced Scottish water

Rejecting tap water and just having bottled is extraordinarily wasteful and death to the environment. Don't even think about it!

Not been able to drink ours for past three years. After numerous occasions without any water for days on end our ongoing supply is either white, brown and/ or stinks of chlorine.
Bottled water only for me and my cat. Hugely annoying and inconvenient.

We generally filter ours and it's so much better for it. Plain old tap water for cooking and for the kettle though.

Drink it, we do have a water filter built into our fridge though.

Tap water here! I live in Wales though, and our water is known to be good.

We fill up our Chilly’s water bottles and take them around with us too. It helps us save money and reduce our plastic waste since there’s no need for us to buy bottled water when we’re out.

Got a household water filter fitted, plus a filter for drinking water. It's been a game changer. Appliances such as kettles and irons no longer get bunged up with limescale.

Our Thames Water is v hard and stinks of chlorine. We were all getting eczema patches that would not shift.

Bottled. Tastes better, and is also chilled, as it has been in the fridge.

Tap water. I'm not sure the microplastics in bottled water ultimately make it any healthier unless you live in a country with unsafe tap water.

Installed a water 3 years ago and you do not have kettles bunged up with chalk etc. No scum left on cups of tea, everything is so clean and the water tastes so much improved.
Shower screens easier to clean again less limescale.
Skin health condition has nearly gone thanks to the filter.

I agree. It really does work because chlorine is a gas and will evaporate.

There is no good reason in most cases to buy bottled water in the UK. Although if I had lead pipes I probably would buy bottled water.

Our water in my part of South Yorkshire is lovely. We live near a lot of reservoirs so it doesn't have far to travel.

Thanks, I never knew this… you learn something new everyday on Mumsnet 😄

Filter all mine. Tastes revolting otherwise, even the dogs won’t drink it! Run through the filters and tastes better and then fizz it with soda stream. Barely ever buy water now.
mat my last place it was 100% bottled water as the tap water ran brown and wasn’t safe to drink

You can put tap water in the fridge. Any chlorine in it will evaporate.

Agree.

We are in a super hard water area so we filter. I use a soda stream for fizzy water.

The filter we have is a Phox. They are a Scottish company who make refillable filters. They do plastic or glass filter jugs. We switched to them as I was unhappy with binning the plastic filters all the time.

www.phoxwater.com

Drink it.

My tap water is really good. In winter and spring when it's freezing cold, it's gorgeous.😍

Tap water

Drink it.

When I lived in an area where the water didn’t taste so good, I had a filter fitted in the kitchen. The drinking water came through a separate tap.

You can buy jug filters that you keep in the fridge if you’re in rented accommodation, or have a lower budget.

Bottled is terrible for the environment, so why would you unless you have to.

We have lovely soft water from the Lake District. I would be concerned about micro plastics if I was drinking lots of bottled water.

If your water smells of chlorine and you want a glass of water, fill the glass and leave it on the side for a minute. Chlorine is a gas at room temperature, so it will dissipate very quickly.

Always tap water. If I go out, I take tap water in a bottle. Our tap water is lovely, but I won’t buy bottled water. What’s the point.? Tap water is regularly tested.