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'm not aware of anywhere in the UK where it's unsafe. I may be wrong but I'd be surprised.

Who says we can't be bothered????

The water here is still horrible no matter how long you leave it or whether you put it in the fridge or not.

I bet you do a lot of things that aren't environmentally perfect that I don't do. Shall we tax all of those?

I never said it was unsafe!!

I was disagreeing that it's nice to drink everywhere in England.

I drink 8 pints of tap water a day. South of England. V tasty.
We make fizzy in a soda stream.

Agree with this. I grew up in the northwest and soft tap water smelt a bit funky.
In the south it's delicuous.

The only time I drink anything other than tapwater is when I take it straight from a natural spring.

We refrigerate our tap water. Wouldn’t dream of buying bottled water now.

Tap water, but filtered through the Brita for the kettle as we're in a hard water area. We all drink loads of water, so the cost of bottled would be ridiculous, not to mention the plastic waste.

I was in Selfridges food hall and began to wonder who was buying all the fancy £5 a bottle, bottles...

Generally take a chilly type bottle each when we go out, loads of places have drinking water taps, so it's easy. There's nowt wrong with council pop.

Absolutely!

Drink it.

Sadly I wouldn’t trust Thames water. Occasionally it’s brown here in East London so wouldn’t trust it.

Hate plastic bottled water too. But I do enjoy the tap water when I travel to my friends up north.

I can't drink tap water, ever - it tastes utterly revolting. So much so I've had the water company out to run numerous tests.

Drink it. In one house in another county though it needed filtering. I think it very much dependa on area when it comes to taste.
Agree that people from some countries are well used to it so continue drinking bottled water here. Took DH a while too.
My DM abroad has drinkable water (city in eu) but during and for a bit after covid, most people there drank bottled because the tap one was like a freaking sanitiser.

Drink tap water if it's tasteless. Some tap water has a strong chlorine smell and taste which is off putting.

To add, funnily my water now goes disgusting if I let it stand in glass...

I never drink it here. It frequently reeks of chlorine.

Chloriney here.
We get costco bottled water

There is a difference between safe, and drinkable. I lived in the North of Scotland and really enjoyed drinking our tap water. I now live in the Central belt and find the overwhelming odour of chlorine is a real turn off. I can drink it but only if it has been put in the fridge for a while. There are parts of England I’ve visited where it feels like the water is so hard it practically needs a knife and fork. When I lived in SE England I had a water filter, couldn’t touch a drop without it. I prefer sparkling water unless it is soft water and really cold.

I live in Scotland where the tap water is lovely.

i was amused/bemused by your comment on putting the water in the fridge. I swear my tap water is colder directly out the tap than it would be if I put it in the fridge. And that’s all year round.

Drink it. We filter it, then drink it, use it for tea - bottled water is a waste. Our water isn't nice, but the filter sorts it. And it saves wear and tear on the kettle too.

Tap. If it didn’t taste good I’d get a filter.

Bottled. I live in a high rise, in London, the water is not good, it’s very chalky and smells.

The lead pipes in a hard water areas are not as much of an issue as you might think: the minerals in the water coat the insides of the pipes and in areas where there are known large amounts of lead pipework the water companies treat the water with orthophosphate to reduce the problem significantly. If you know you have lead pipes, run the cold tap until the water is cold, i.e. you're not using the water that's been sitting in the pipes.

I drink it but I live in a very hard water area so use a filter for the kettle and cooking. I have a sodastream and make my own sparkling water on the odd occasion that I fancy some.

I’m lucky where I live our water is soft and lovely to drink. I used to live in a hard water area, it made me gag it was like drinking milk. I used a filter jug. I wouldn’t buy bottled can’t bear to waste all
that plastic.