Tap water

[Bestyearever2024]

Hi MNetters

Are you happy drinking tap water?

Or do you filter the tap water ? Buy bottled water? Or something else?

What do you drink your water/cold drink out of when you're on the move? Plastic? Metal? Glass?

Thanks for the advice 🙂

I drink it straight from the tap (south east, hard water area). I only drink bottled water on holiday and it seems to make me more thirsty.

It've been out with people who are dead against tap water.... except when you go out and suddenly it's fine (£££!)

I hate water full stop, I'd have to be literally desperate to drink it. However if I have to, then I go for sparkling as its at least fizzy! So I never drink water from the tap as I just wouldn't, not for any other reason. The tight ass in me would never dream of paying for still water though.

Our soft tap water tastes nice (Cumbria). Since we moved uphere 10 years ago, every time we go back down to where my parents and PIL live, we hate the taste of the water. Thames Water there, I think. Very hard. We get no limescale at all where we live. Out and about I use plastic water bottles.

Yes all the time. I ask for it at restaurants too.

Yes I drink tap water. I have a Ninja Thirsti bottle that I refill for when I'm out and about, or I'll sometimes buy a bottle from a shop.

Ne Scotland.. straight from the tap.

I drink mains fed tap water in the UK. I would be more concerned if it was from a spring, a well or from a private water supply.
There's more regulations governing the production of mains water than there are governing the bottling of spring water.
I used to work in the water industry.

Yes, I drink tap water. I use a glass water bottle when out.

@CherryValley5 because we live in a country with extremely safe tap water. It tastes fine. Bland and water-like. There is literally no actual need to buy water from the supermarket when it is piped into your house. You've been sold that bottled water is 'better' and has good minerals in it. It's just marketing.

Which bottle do you use, if you dont mind me asking 😁

Used a filter jug for years, then decided to stop it last year. Just bought a new one though. I know tap water is safe but it's the black crud that comes off the tap spouts and washing machine filler holes (in the detergent compartment) that has made me go back to filtered.

Our tap water is absolutely perfect where we live, so that’s what we drink. We go to the US often and the tap water there is utterly disgusting.

Which type of filter do you use. I'm thinking of buying one but the choiceis huge!

We live in a hard water area and we drink it straight out the tap. Kids take tap water to school in metal bottles and we do the same if we every need to take water out.

Londoner and only drink tap.

Drinking water from single use plastics seems worse from a health POV (not to mention the waste) because I've read microplastics get into the water. Rarely heat plastic containers or use non stick for same reason.

Drink it straight from a tap but use a brita filter if it's going to be boiled for tea for the better flavours in the brew.

I don't like tap water so avoid it where I can. We drink refrigerated filter water.

Same here. South London, very hard water

We live in the Midlands and drink tap water most of the time. I don't like the taste of water a lot further north but here ans East Anglia it tastes just fine. I do like to fizz it up in my soda stream sometimes!

Out and about we predominantly use stainless steel bottles to keep the water cold. We have a couple of plastic water bottles too that we've acquired over the years (for example from work).

I haven’t been ‘sold’ it. I simply prefer it - different waters have different mineral content which gives them each a distinct taste, it’s not about the minerals being ‘good’. Evian for example is very different in taste to Volvic. Apologies if you have an issue with that! I take it you are one of those people who thinks that all water just tastes like water?

Like I said, I used to have no issue with drinking tap water until it began to taste akin to a swimming pool where I live.

I really, really don’t think Brita or Evian would be desperate enough to stoop to the MN housekeeping board

First post? Really? Are all my other posts hidden for some reason?

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Yes. I feel that way too. We get our water from Wales so it's pretty soft but still.....the black crud in the washing machine/taps isn't something I want to ingest

But then.....does a filter jug get rid of the crud? I've spent a long time researching and I can't work it out 🥺