I think I have now heard it all.......

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True anecdote. Child in class wanted some water. Teacher directed child to drinking water tap in class and a clean cup. Child said that mum did not allow water from the tap; child only allowed to drink filtered water. For context, drinking water in our area is wonderful and the child has no medical issues.
Mind. blown.

Welsh water really is delicious but even just 2 miles to a different village, my parent's water tastes of chlorine and I cannot drink it unfiltered - it really turns on me.

As a teacher, having water bottles in class can be an utter headache. There's the annoying bottle flips (thump thump) to which I say "toys aren't welcome- get it in your bag", then there's the bottle scrunchers "get it in the bin". Not to mention the bottle clickers - they get the glare too. I occasionally get the bottle ninjas who use it as a weapon/object to hurl - they get a good old fashioned kick up the arse I wish. Don't get me started on the hundreds of pupils who HAVE to rip off the label and hurl it on the floor.

Huge ball ache for teachers in a comprehensive school. I know drinking water has obvious health benefits but even something as simple as a water bottle effects teaching and learning.

She developed awful teeth because of lack of chlorine.

It's fluoride that is good for teeth not chlorine. And that isn't routinely added to water in most parts of the UK.

I filter my water as I don't like the taste of chlorine.

“She developed awful teeth because of lack of chlorine.”

Fluoride. Not chlorine.

This whole bottled water thing is the most amazingly successful marketing campaign ever.

Ds's school had a donation of reusable water bottles and gave one to each child and banned single use bottles. They don't even sell bottled drinks and have a supply of reusable cups you can get water in.

floral that's fantastic.

From an earlier point about Teesside water. Hartlepool is regarded to not be great, Middlesbrough and Stockton water is absolutely fine. They are supplied by Northumbrian water as is county Durham.

Bertrand Ooops, ys you're right, I typed quickly and put it wrong... meant fluoride.

Our work provides filtered and cooled tap water. No cups are provided; we all have our own reusable bottles or glasses, and the same goes for takeaway coffee from the canteens. At home, the tap water is great (Scotland) but occasionally the white additive is really cloudy. I won't drink the water in London; there's a disgusting scum even on a cup of tea. We had water fountains in school fifty years ago.

@moonrises East Durham gets hartlepool water and it's horrid. Took me years to get used to the strong mineral taste, my hair was awful and the limescale was horrendous.

Sometimes our water is cloudy but then it settles if you leave it in the glass for a few minutes. I rang the water company to see what the problem was and was informed that it was...air

Many years ago we had a French exchange student, they arrived at school quite late because of weather in the Channel, OH phoned me from the school, 'Er, she's vegan, whatever that it'. Mad phone call to a vegetarian friend, followed by two weeks of meal times. When our daughter went on the return visit we asked her what the friend had eaten at home, 'Of her Mother put the meal on the table, told her to eat it and shup up!' apparently she'd never been a vegan or even a vegetarian.

I trust that you served a bottle of the most expensive mineral water, on a silver salver?

I remember being at download music festival. We were drink water from big plastic barrels. Water was scooped out and passed to spectators. Security dunked their hats in it, sweaty hands/arms. No cover on it so flies etc.
If you're thirsty enough you don't care lol

Ah kids say stuff. My friend’s kid asked me to clean her shoes today. I said I was a bit busy. Just say the water is lovely and clean and perfectly fine and then tell the mum. She can sort it for future. No big deal.

When did this fad start with having to have water by your side all the time? If children or adults for that matter take a good drink of water in the morning, at natural breaks in the day and again in the evening, why the constant need to sip, sip, gulp all day?

Surely ear defenders at a noisy event is no different to sun cream on a hot day or a cycle helmet when out on a bike, what a stupid comment.

I told my son to stop drinking from the water tap because he was picking up strange sickness bugs almost constantly when his dtwin in the same class didn’t drink from the fountain and never seemed to get ill. We assumed he must be licking it or something.

I prefer DD not to drink tap water in school, but I send her in with her own.
I buy the large bottle water, I guess the plastic is not great, the water in Dublin is full of fluoride, in my job ther is black speckle bits in it.
Down the Country the water isn't drinkable it is dark grey with lime in some areas.
I use the tap for tea.

These threads come up every now and then on mumsnet (often arguments with idiots who ONLY drink bottled water too) and I just don't get people who say water from a certain place tastes "horrid".

I'm a life long Londoner and our water's horrible (still drink it though and so does DD). There is a difference in taste but it all does the job.

In the places I’ve lived or visited in the UK, there’s been a lot of calcium in the water. I can’t drink it at all and it ruins my hair. I need to drink filtered water in the UK. And I’m talking from big London down to small town in Scotland.

From London to Scotland is up...

Down the Country the water isn't drinkable it is dark grey with lime in some areas

Eh @EmeraldShamrock? I live 'down the country' and there's nothing wrong with our water, in fact it's lovely. Nothing wrong with a bit of lime in your water either! What an exaggeration!

Insulting and ignorant. Please don't visit Yorkshire or the North East. We don't want visitors like you.

North West water used to be fabulous, really miss it.

I think most primary classrooms have a tap for painting lessons etc

No they don’t.

Bottled water companies don’t make water, they make plastic bottles.