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 drink it DH will only drink bottled

Drink it..Ne Scotland.

I pretty much only drink tap water as I too have access to the wonderful Scottish water.

I drink it and filter for the kettle otherwise it gets scale.

East London

I always drank tap water but when I started chemo last year I started buying bottled water.

Have a filter in my fridge, perfect water every time. Have a jug for the kettle

It seems like the staunch bottled water drinkers can't be bothered to try the extremely simple solution of leaving the water for the chlorine to dissipate.

Maybe they should increase tax on bottled water.

Tap, ours is hard, chalky and delicious. I don't like drinking it in soft water areas (sorry Scotland!) as it doesn't taste of anything and doesn't quench my thirst.

I’m in Scotland and always drink tap water at home.

I live in Scotland - bottled water would be a downgrade.

When we lived in Sydney, we had a Brita jar in the fridge though.

What kind of filters are being used because we stayed at a house that used softeners about 10 yrs ago. Resulted in no limescale, but the system had a box you had to pop white tablets in, and I couldn't drink the tap water in that house.

The best tap water I've ever had was in a holiday cottage in Derby.

Ours tastes and smells of chlorine so I fill a bottle and let it chill in the fridge. This allows to smell to go off and then I am happy to drink it. I used to filter but it started to get expensive so now I've stopped bothering.

I use a Brita water filter as our water (Wessex water south coast) tastes gag. We have a Quooker tap which has a filter which makes tea taste nice. Best tasting water from a tap I have ever had was when we lived just north of Swindon.

From the tap, but then again, I’m in Ireland and we have our own well. It’s so good!

Drink it - South Devon. Have a soda stream when I fancy fizzy.

I drink it though downstairs we have a filter. Can't be bothered if I'm upstairs it comes straight from the tap

We drink bottled water, and also boil bottled water for tea, in our previous house the plumbing had been done incorrectly and we had been drinking the tap water that had been backwashed back out the boiler 🤢 ruined tap water forever for me now

Always tap never drink bottled water

I boil, cool then drink it. Only very very rarely from the tap.

We have a large fridge/freezer that has a water filter and dispenser at the front.

We use that for drinking water as our water is very hard.

Prior to this I used water filter jugs you fill with tap water and store in the fridge.

Have a soda stream to make fizzy water.

Don’t use bottled water for environmental reasons.

Tap water, it's not great but it's good enough.

I remain a bit puzzled about how many people I see buying trolleys-full of water when we have taps and our water is drinkable in London. DH did ask someone in Costco once why they were buying a tonne of water - in their case they lived in a bedsit and the water pipes in their place weren't good and made water taste bad, but I don't think most people are buying water because of that. It seems like an unnecessary expense to me.🤔

Drink it but only after it's been filtered. I take the filter jug on holiday in the UK as well as different water can upset my stomach.

Weird conclusion to come to just because you know one person.

I was born in the UK have lived in various places around the world and various places in the UK.

I now live in the south east & the tapwater here is horrible! I've tried various filters I even have a built-in filter, but it's still not drinkable (as far as I'm concerned) I drink mostly water, with the odd coffee, I don't drink fizzy drinks or cordial squash or fruit juices, et cetera,

Highland Spring does a 10 L carton with a bladder inside. I decant the bladder into my fridge (the 10 L carton won't fit) which yes is still plastic, but far less than the bottles.

It's not the same everywhere.

Drink tap water. Having been brought up in a hard water area, much prefer it to soft water.