What water do you drink at home?

[ana7887]

What water do you drink at home? Do you buy bottled water? Do you have a filter system? Do you have water delivery arranged?
With two active boys I noticed that lately we go through racks of bottled water and looking to change to either water filter like virgin or water2 or get a water dispenser. I haven’t done any research yet on any filters but worry if we install any it wouldn’t change how tap water tastes and we will still need to buy bottles.
Has anyone installed filter and happy with it after at least a year of use?

Exactly, a scam with a terrible impact.

Tap, and have a large bottle of cold tap water in the fridge. Occasionally buy small bottles of fizzy water but not often due to plastic.

What's wrong with the tap water? Is it poor quality in your area?
Get a filter system if you don't like the tap water.
Bottled water is an environmental menace with all the plastic bottles.
Get a soda stream if you must have fizzy water.

Peckham Springs

Our tap water does taste weird to me (very hard water area) so I always used to drink it with squash but I now use a lidded jug designed for the fridge door and fill it up from the tap. It's lovely and cold so much nicer to drink.

There is absolutely no way I'd drink bottled water at home. Both because of the microplastics issue but also the shocking environmental waste.

Tap. With a couple of litre bottles as back up in case there’s a boil water notice again because I learned from last time!

London tap

When I was younger (in the late 70s) I couldn't understand why some shops were beginning to sell water or believe that anyone would actually buy it because it was freeky available at home.
It's very odd that now water is for sale everywhere in plastic bottles I was convinced it would never become a thing because to me it make no sense!

tap (but I'm up north where it tastes nice, hard water can be nasty but I still wouldn't buy 3 litres a day in plastic bottles!)

A study published in 2024 found that on average bottled water contained 240,000 particles of microplastics per litre.

Why people are willingly putting that into their bodies baffles me.

Tap for still
Soda stream for fizzy
Metal reusable bottles for out and about

Haven't bought a plastic bottle of water for years and find the thought of buying 'racks' of bottles unbelievably wasteful both financially and environmentally

Hoping this is a wind up post

Filtered water from the fridge which is plumbed into the mains

Cooncil juice aka tap water

I've always drunk the tap water in the UK, in some parts of the UK where it's very hard I would put it through a brita filter first, especially for the kettle or you end up with scales in your tea which is grim. Otherwise it's always been totally fine. I often find mineral water (which I would buy on hpliday if the local tap water isn't safe) too salty for me and it causes all sorts of bloating issues.

Assuming you are in the UK, whether do you think is wrong with the water?

Tap. We have a jug that is kept in the fridge

Judging by the amount of people I see leaving Costco with vast amounts of bottled water it won't be a wind up. Almost every other person in there has a trolley with trays of the stuff.

Tap water.

Yep, I get the same vits one for my adult children. They love it and get through so much. I just get cheap sainsburys sparkling water for myself. Drink two litres a day whilst working. Sometimes, at weekend I treat myself to San Pellegrino.

Tap

This is not a goady post at all but I just don't get fizzy water. I don't like tea or coffee so all I really drink is tap water or Vimto. Fizzy water just tastes like a really disappointing Sprite or R Whites to me 😀

Tap.
I find it incredible how much resources some people waste by drinking bottled water at home in the UK.

Tap water. But we also have a natural spring nearby that you can just go and fetch water from and I keep meaning to go fill a water cannister there sometime as I drive past it every day (and there's always someone there fetching water so clearly popular)

Always tap water for drinking.

We have a Brita filter that the kettle gets filled from, but that's to slow down the limescale accumulation in the kettle, not because it makes a blind bit of difference to the taste of tea/coffee/pasta/veg etc.

@ana7887

• *What country are you in? Is tap water not safe to drink ?