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!

Nothing wrong with it at all, and we do pay for it, so use it!

I live in Wiltshire and exactly the same here
ive actually read hard water is better for you because of the minerals, but I’m not buying bottled water anyway!

Tbh it doesn't sound like he'll live very long considering the choices he's making so you might not need to. But sitting around hoping your husband dies soon isn't a very healthy way to live.

Is he a secret alcoholic? Does he drink when you are out / in bed?

Oh dear, tap water scaremongering. A few Guardian articles pandering to its gullible hippy dippy readership and we’re all being poisoned!

Considering the billions around the world who have to live without clean water, this attitude is very unpleasant. It’s self-indulgent bullshit. I suppose it could also be a sign of the water filter pyramid selling scourge from years ago making a comeback.

How on earth do these men get decent women to marry them??

I've completed a lot of research on this and the public are naïve.

@Oscarbravoromeo, do you mean you go around the different regions of the UK, sampling households' tap water with your fully professional testing kit?

You should make your results public! I'm sure the mainstream media would want to interview you about it, too.

Of course you can drink hard water. Don’t be silly.

I more meant that I wouldn't because mines bloody disgusting 😅

OMG, London water tastes absolutely minging 😂. I lived there for 15 years and we had to have a plumbed in fridge so it was at least very cold and filtered. But no, it certainly wasn’t harmful!

Tap water is fine but personally I prefer it chilled so would put a jug or (reusable) bottle in the fridge.

I prefer filtered water as I think it tastes better so we have a water filter. Live in South East.

When I lived in France, everyone drank bottled water even though the tap water is fine to drink. This seemed a great waste to me. My French family tell me this is now changing somewhat as people look at the environmental impact.

Your DH sounds annoying, op.

off topic but do you like him?

Of course you can drink it in a hard water area 🤦‍♀️Where on earth have you got this bit of disinformation from?? No need to filter it either…it’s high in calcium and magnesium and is generally thought to be even more beneficial than soft water areas!

Unless he is buying something like Perrier he is drinking tap water. I live somewhere the water doesn't taste good so I filter it.

www.gov.uk/guidance/compare-types-of-bottled-water

As I've said mine is absolutely disgusting so it was more a preference

@Oscarbravoromeo

Obviously whilst wearing your tin foil hat! 🙄 Ffs! 🤦‍♀️

That’s not what you said in your first post though. You said:

If you live in a hard water area then no you can't drink it, well unless you filter it first. It won't kill you once in a blue moon though.

Which is obviously saying that tap water is so dangerous that you shouldn’t drink it unfiltered more than “once in a blue moon”. What a load of nonsense.

Oh dear, tap water scaremongering. A few Guardian articles pandering to its gullible hippy dippy readership and we’re all being poisoned!

How on earth is it scaremongering to say that there are hormones & forever chemicals in the water?

As I said I don't bother to filter my water as personally I am not concerned about the presence of the two things!

Of course you can drink hard water. Humans have lived in hard water areas for millennia. Do you think they just didn’t drink? The whole of London is a hard water area and people manage just fine.

Is it a lack of comprehension that results in these posts?

Acknowledging something factual doesn't mean anything else about from acknowledging that!

Which posts? Do you mean the ones that bang on about dangerous chemicals and then claim that there was no intention to alarm anyone?

Your post was not stating a ‘preference’ though…you backtracked pretty quickly once you were called out.

You literally say ‘If you live in a hard water, NO you CAN’T drink it unless you filter it first’.

Which is not the same at all as saying, ‘water in my area tastes foul so I prefer not to drink it’.

Two totally different statements.

Filtered tap water. Definitely not straight from the tap as in my area it tastes like bleach. It sounds like you don't like him very much........

I thought bottled water was worth for your health because of chemicals leeching from the plastic

Tell him about the microplastics in bottled water.