To think you can drink tap water in a 1st world country!

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My OH will not drink tap water and it drives me insane. He just drove 20 minutes home at 10pm because he left half a bottle of water on the side at home and no shops are open and in his words ‘I take my water seriously’

I think the reason it drives me insane is because the reason he won’t drink it is because of the hormones etc in it but yet he has spent his whole life being obese. He goes through intense phases of working out and eating really well and loses weight but ultimately he is still obese and thinks that the one time he got to 17st is some sort of achievement that he needs to tell me about allllllll the time. He drives without a seatbelt on, he took pretty hard drugs as a young man and has always drunk alcohol (although he barely does these things now) I think another reason is that he constantly watches strong men / sports personalities talking about their workouts and nutrition and he insists on telling me about things that I have no interest in and have told him as much - after many years of politely saying ‘ooh interesting’ whilst secretly thinking ‘I bet you weren’t thinking about the processed meats giving you cancer when you ate your McDonalds wrap for breakfast 😡’ or ‘I’m 9 years older than you and manage to get more done in any given day than you do despite the fact that I’m not interested in an ice bath’ I know there’s no link to obesity from tap water but Jesus Christ something has to kill you! I doubt it will be the rusty pipes or hormones in the water! He had the audacity to ask me if I felt comfortable eating a sweetie the other day (not fat shaming me, I’m not fat, more that he wanted to make the point that there were no ingredients on the wrapper, pretty sure there were no ingredients on the sweet and sour chicken from the Chinese that he ate last night either 🤪)

I also know lots of you are going to tell me to get a grip and let him live as he pleases but if you had to listen to him go on and on about it whilst he’s sat there sweating and needing 400 bowel movements a day you would find it a hard pill to swallow.

Do you drink tap water? AIBU to think that in an emergency a bit of tap water isn’t going to kill you!

I occasionally drink tap water, but I don’t like the taste. I drink mostly bottled water. I buy the smart water bottles and hope it’s a bit better as recycled.

Crikey. Have a good night.

Wait til he finds out about microplastics in bottled water! Or actually, don’t tell him… you could well end up buying only Badoit in glass bottles.

@stayathomer most of the time when water looks white or cloudy it’s actually just tiny air bubbles coming out of solution in the water due to a temperature or pressure change in the pipes.

When work is being done on the pipe network, pressure changes mean more air is compressed into the water, and when you run the tap it comes out of solution in tiny bubbles that make the water look white. This can also sometimes happen if there is a temperature differential between two different sections of the pipework.

If you pour a glass and it clears after a few minutes standing, it’s just water aeration and totally harmless. More info here:

https://www.aquacure.co.uk/knowledge-base/why-does-my-tap-water-look-cloudy

https://www.dwi.gov.uk/consumers/learn-more-about-your-water/white-or-cloudy-water/

I’ve just realised he drinks tap water when we have a coffee. Which led me on to thinking about how he only drinks filter coffee now and I think actually it might be a MH issue because honestly he doesn’t earn enough to be drinking bottled water and drinking filter coffee 😂😂😂

PFAs are not the same as hard water

Of course they aren't @summertimeinLondon 😆

London has to been found to have higher levels of PFAs & is obviously a hard water area so I think that is where the narrative comes from you should filter hard water areas.

www.theguardian.com/environment

I don't filter by the way

Are you carrying the financial burden of this household too? He sounds worse and worse with every post, the water thing sounds like the final straw.

You realise that most bottled water is just the same as tap water, but in addition contains more microplastics and other chemicals in the plastic that are many of the PFAs?

And you have no way of knowing what temperature the bottles have been stored at; and if they have been warm more chemicals leech out of the plastic.

One thing that is interesting is the US are much stricter on PFAs

"In the US and some countries in Europe, the safety thresholds for PFAS in drinking water are much more restrictive than in the UK. The US has proposed a limit of 4ng/l in drinking water, compared with 100ng/l in the UK."

@summertimeinLondon are you ok? why are you lecturing me on bottled water? 😆😆

Yes I am really. Or at least I did for the last two years! He is bad, I just needed to vent really. I’ve even started venting to his own Mum because I’m close to the edge tbh.

I don’t really understand it to be honest because I rarely drink the bottled stuff, it’s just wasteful in my opinion.

The hard tap water in our area tastes grim but a water filter jug is a total game changer, especially when kept in the fridge.

Tap water is fine where I live.

Just curious- is he rich, amazing chef, amazing cleaner etc as I'm not sure what the attraction is that makes you put up with him?

I chose YABU. Not about the tap water, I’m in Scotland and love our tap water, but about the atrocious way you speak about your husband.

This is about way more than tap water. You sound repulsed by him.

This is about way more than tap water. You sound repulsed by him.

I think every poster on this thread is repulsed by him. He’s not only a massive hypocrite / idiot but it seems that he has no redeeming qualities at all.

Bottled water is full of microplastics

Aren’t there microplastics in bottled water?

He sounds like a dreadful bore and also a moron.

If I couldn't make him leave, I'd go.

I don't understand people who refuse to drink tap water. It's such a first world, middle class problem to be having.

On a side note, not wearing a seal belt is beyond stupid and selfish. It's a life saving piece of equipment. If he comes flying through the windshield in an accident, he's not only harming himself (and by extension his family) but traumatising anyone else who witnesses the accident. Absolute idiot.

Elderly parent developed bladder stones. We've been advised not to drink tap water. We are in an extremely hard water area though.

Our water in our village regularly runs brown. We also find it goes off every couple of weeks. They just seem to be unable to fix the two permanent leaks each end of the village.
I do sometimes drink squash but generally I drink bottled sparkling water.

YANBU.

Utter bollocks. Of course you can drink the tap water in a hard water area. I grew up in a hard water area and have done so all my life. It even has a much higher mineral content because of the rocks, usually limestone or chalk, that it has already filtered through.

OP, your partner is being a pillock. Not sure I'd put up with much of that crap from him. Would he be so lax about car safety if children were involved (are they)?