Tap water

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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 🙂

Evian backwards is naive, just saying

It matters a lot where you are in the country.

We have lovely water where I am, so happy to drink loads of the stuff.

I prefer it chilled so we tend to put a jug of water in the fridge and drink from there.

Out and about I have a metal, insulated bottle I use, so it stays chilled.

Our water in the North West of England comes from lake windermere apparently and yes I drink it. tastes fine. besides I pay a fortune in water rates so I'm getting my monies worth, no way I'd pay extra for bottled water!

Hmm.. I still have (and I'll be amongst hundreds of thousands of others) lead water supply. Water companies regularly fail their drinking water safety targets. And increasingly often we hear of pathogen contaminated drinking water.

I think it's common knowledge that our water infrastructure is in decay.

I have a glass and stainless steel filter jug by Danish company Aarke. Fewer nasties from the tap and no microplastics.

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Oh my 😬

I have a glass and stainless steel filter jug by Danish company Aarke. Fewer nasties from the tap and no microplastics.

I've not heard of this company ....does their filter get rid of microplastics from the tap water, do you know?

It's a bit more expensive than other jug filters but I love that it's glass and stainless steel

This BBC science article is interesting on water and microplastics. Confirms some in tap but immeasurably more in bottled water, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240110-microplastics-are-everywhere-is-it-possible-to-reduce-our-exposure#:~:text=Even%20with%20these%20non%2Dplastic,sea%20salt%20and%20even%20beer.

Surprised to learn the microplastics in tap water mainly come from clothing fibres: fast fashion made of synthetics has a role to play in reducing the safety of our water!

We have a Brita filter that fits on the tap, about £45 on Amazon. It is excellent. You can switch it to
filtered, non filtered (say for hot water for washing up) and spray (say for cleaning the sink/veg). It has a digital countdown that tells you how many litres you’ve filtered so you know when to replace the filter. I think it lasts 600 or 800 litres, and the refills are £30.

Hi op, at home I've been using a four litre counter top water distiller.
Once the tap water has distilled, I then clean the distiller ready for its next run.
The inside of the distiller before cleaning it, looked and smells disgusting.
When I've use white vinegar to soak the Indios the machine, the vinegar is no longer clear, in fact it's a bit of a mucky soup.

If I know I'm going to be out for the day, I take a drink out with me in sis flask if it's a hot drink, or a glass bottle if it's a cool drink.

If I'm thirsty when out, I'll buy a drink that's in a glass bottle.
Yes it's heavier, and there's a risk the bottle could break if dropped, but I will not drink from a plastic bottle.
Not only because of the environment, but the toxins from the plastic leech into the water... especially so it the bottles have sat in huge stacks outside in the sunlight which further helps the toxins from the plastic, enter the water.
I first read about distilled water over ten years ago, from Andrew Norton Webber.
I wish I could have a whole tank of distilled water, so I could wash my body and my hair in it... my little four litre distiller would be on nonstop if I were to try to accommodate that much use.

Thank you so much ! What interesting posts 🥰❤️

I agree with the poster who said safe to drink and nice to drink aren't mutually exclusive!

I got a brita filter in the misguided hope it would get rid of the chlorine taste from mine.

It doesn't.

No limescale in the kettle though, so that's something I suppose