Bottled water...Seriously Mother?

[Feminine]

My Mother is coming to stay with us on Sunday well she was

anyway somewhere, somehow , she has it in her head that she can only drink bottled water.

This is despite having a water filter. This is despite us having just bought one for her visit!

When I lived in London, it was a must (for us) it did improve the flavour and after seeing the crud floating in the top (of the filter) it made sense.

Where we live in the Country our water is really nice, I've been 'lazy' about using one here.

My Mother likes having masses of these blasted bottles in the kitchen, just for drinking The filter is fine for tea/coffee.

Now, I forgot this silly rule that she binds all her visits with. I innocently thought the filter would work... for all water needs

Apparently not, as you have guessed it, she still wants a collection of Tesco value water all over the place

I'm not unreasonable am I? Its just bottled tap water right?

mother also claims a Doctor no less has told here to use it!

I know, it is a very boring question...I'm yawning as I type...however what is the opinion on MN please.

Mum has just slammed the phone down on me!

After a typical " If you needed something I'd get it for you" poor me speech!

When I was pregnant with DS I started finding tap water repellant and this has never really gone away although the disgust is fading with time (DS is now 4). I can drink it alongside strongly flavoured food, but will get dehydrated to the point of headaches if tap water is all there is to drink. Filtering doesn't take out whatever the thing is that I don't like and some bottled water has it too.

Come from a third world country,so know all about water purifiers.Will not touch London and S/E tap water.

Population too dense and you had better believe the 'excreted contraceptives' story.You cannot 'purify' these.Just look at all the 'moobs'about.

We all do what we think is best for ourselves...plastic gets recycled.

Glad she got her water, but don't know about Tesco value...another huge thread.

I bought Waitrose .

i had a housemate who would ONLY drink Evian. he particularly liked to drink from my Evian bottle I kept in the fridge full of tap water

I'm a water drink, I only really drink water when at home, not one for juices, squash or hot drinks. I like our tap water.

Having said that, if I had visitors and knew they had preferences for thing we don't have I'd cater to that. I just think it's what good hosts do, regarding if our own preferences.

Feminine...the yellow grinning smiley that I still can't do.!!

I'm SW and our water comes out the taps white.

I will drink it but only because I cba with bottles all over the place.

I can't believe the number of people who won't drink tap water.

The environmental cost of all those plastic bottles is huge. There are people all over the world who would give their eye teeth for the safe clean water that comes out of a tap in your kitchen, i.e. not an hours walk away and polluted with god knows what. Get a bloody grip.

OP your mum sounds a challenge. Refill the bottles with tap - she if she notices.

Well I live in London, tap water of doom apparently. I survive.

Haven't read the whole thread but patients with very poor immune systems such as those having certain forms of chemotherapy are advised to only drink tap water not bottled as it is less risky in terms of infection.

I don't see what the big deal is SHe is old she has earned the right to drink what she likes!

I have had 2 transplants chemo and am immunosuppressed and no one has ever mentioned bottled water to me and its all I drink My consultants know too

If it tastes of chlorine put it in a jug and leave it to sit for a few hours, the chlorine will be used up and the water won't taste of it anymore.

The PET bottles leach chemicals into the water which mimic eostrogen, particularly if the bottle has been sitting in the sun and warmed up. Thus oestrogen mimicking things could be a contributory factor to breast cancers.

Thus is something I've heard. Don't ask me for a link to the research because I'm on my phone and can't.

Hester, that's what I was about to say. If people knew what leached out of the plastic they wouldn't pay such a lot if money for it.
Can't link to the research on my phone but you can Google out if you are interested.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17707454