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Do you buy it? What do you think of it compared to tap water? And if you do buy it, why?

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yes i buy it, i buy it because i want it, and why do i want it? because i am probably thirsty at the time

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dont buy it!
tap water is good enough, just pop it in a jug and pop it in the fridge, simple, nice cold water;)

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I installed my own carbon filter system which has its own tap -easy peasy.
I dont like the chlorine -can smell it when I run a bath, so leave it evaporate off for about 5 minutes -am thinking of dechlorinating bath water - seen something that can be added and is natural but cant remember where (on web) I saw it

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Tap water has all kinds of things added to it. Bottled water doesn't, unless tampered with.

I drink both, but keep tap water to a bare minimum.

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I had a look today at some in blackburn and saw this on a bottle of a well known brand

"taken from a municipal water supply"

Now municipal means tap basically.

We pay more for this water per litre than petrol.

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municipal means shared btw

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I don't like the taste of tap water. it's like drinking bleach:

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And you could watch this too....

YouTube - The Truth About Bottled Water

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So someone peed it before you got it :eek:

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could very well of done ;)

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So the "mineral" water we buy could also have been p**sed out by someone.

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who knows what goes into ANYTHING we buy nowadays Margaret

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Water is naturally in cycle (nothing new under the sun)
So the only water that might not have been p**d will be that which has been frozen in the polar caps for eons

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eres a question for ya...
Why does mineral water thats trickled down mountains for thousands of years have a use by date?.....emmmmm.......

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Just something i found on a website....

Coca-Cola's Dasani brand of bottled water was found to have illegally high levels of bromate, a cancer-causing chemical, say company executives in the UK. Coca-Cola, which had called their water, "as pure as bottled water gets," immediately recalled 500,000 bottles. It is, of course, a public relations disaster for the company, which has been trying to develop new markets other than soft drinks.

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i cant smell nowt with my water...it tastes fine to me!!
i must have 'posh water':rolleyes::D

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Because its been processed more than tap water most likely so making the trickled down mountains for thousands of years bit bulls**t

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I buy bottled water but also drink the water from the tap sometimes, cant smell chlorine in it, like to run it for a while first though.

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I drink loads of tap water. Ours is just fine and its always really cold. I will drink bottled water to if i'm out and want a drink, but I won't buy it in to have at home.

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I will second that Willow!!! I have to leave my water running for about 2 minutes before I pour myself a glass, or it comes out murky and reeks of chlorine!! :(

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The chemical content of the water reacts with the plastic. Even bottled water if in glass has the same problem I think.

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I've never bothered with bottled water. The stuff that comes out of the tap has always done for me.:)

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Dont drink a lot of water. if i do it's from the tape with loads of ice.

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We don't have much of a choice here. We used to lug eight litre bottles home from the supermarket until some enterprising soul came up with the idea of a water tanker.

He drives around the area every Saturday morning, tooting his horn, and all the locals take the empties out. At 90 cents for eight litres it isn't a bad deal.

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Suppose it depends on where you are. I can taste the difference between the water at home and the water in Accy at the homes of different relatives as they all taste different. My answer has always been to stick vimto cordial in it. :)

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The water, or Corporation pop, as my Granny used to call it, that we get in Ossy is great to drink.

When I lived in London the water was rank, and horrible to taste, and the limescale deposits meant a new kettle every year or so.

The tap water in Dorset is definitely the worst I've ever drunk, although the water in Tanzania came a close second, even though that could've killed you, which doesn't apply in Dorset.:D

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We could always save money, and do what actress Sarah Miles does.;)

Do you want ice with that?:D

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Me i drink bottled water when im out and about and im thirsty but otherwise what comes out of the tap does me. Mind you i did buy some flavoured water and thats in the fridge for me to take to work with me - dont like paying a £1 for a bottle when i can get it down town 4 for a £1. Thats what i dont like - paying the difference in a vending machine and the shops. Vending machine at work £1 a bottle - poweraid, oasis, coke, buxton water. Go down accy and the prices range from 40p a bottle to 90p a bottle - might as well buy in bulk and take it with me.

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I have no idea how this phenomenon (bottled water) began but its an epidemic in the workplace , if a meeting is called at work 1/2 of the attendees arrive clutching water bottles like a 15 month old toddler with his/her tittie bottle , fortunatly I am old and devious enough that the only thing I take into meetings is an ashtray which I play with as a way of keeping the chat to a minimum and the meetings short .

yep , I'm an evil owd ****** :D :D :D

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my dad ALWAYS has a bottle of water in his fridge, when its gone he re-fills it from the tap and puts it in the freezer overnight, so always has cold water when he fancies a drink, he cant stand pop so drinks that instead

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Save yourself the trouble, just quit bathing:D

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I read somewhere (too lazy to remember where) that one US company producing bottled water was ordered to put "PWS" on the bottles ... PWS stands for public water source ... in other words, they were getting the stuff out of the tap and filtering it!!!!

Remember what W. C. Fields said: "I don't drink water; fish f**k in it."

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just watched a programme about it on BBC1, the ONE show, they were giving a drink of bottled n tap to the public without telling em, ALL chose Tap Water as the best, Edwina Curry n some geezer was on and they were saying much of the bottled water is very high in " Sodium" which is great for folks that dont like much salt init? i only buy it occasionally in spain, cos its so warm, have never bought it here, so for all those that buy it here- carry on suckers.:D

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Canadians buy millions of bottles of the stuff ... lots of it imported. We live in a country which has most of the world's fresh water and we buy bottles of the stuff????? There are lakes in the undeveloped parts of our country (which is most of it ) which one can drink out of. Whole bloody lakes full of the best water in the world.

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i only buy it if i want a drink of water and im not at home

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tap water is much better

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It will depend on were you are as to whether yo can drink it or not. Hard water tastes crap. If its nice soft water then you are sorted.

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Wish I had your taps :(

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i only buy bottled when im out if ive forgotten my refilled (out of my tap into filter jug kept in fridge) bottle.

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My tap water at home ( Peel park area ) is fine but at work next to the Arndale it is rank,so cloudy you can't see thru it. Very odd.

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Our water Ossy, nr Foxhill Bank and at The Stop & Rest is great much prefer it to bottled water.

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Bottled water is stagnant, whereas tap water is aeriated. Plus, if you happen to live in an area with a state of the art water treatment facility, you are going to have water treated with both ultra violet and ozone, rather than the traditional chemicals. Many people in the U.S. pay more for a liter of bottled water than they do for gasoline, in the mistaken notion that the product is superior to that which comes out of the faucet. I drink tap water.

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I'm not sure ours is aeriated! It's got something in it but it doesn't smell like air! A state of the art water treatment facility? This is Accy we're talking about! :D

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Our tap water is rubbish,,its not nice to drink anymore ...

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Question:

What did Howard Hughes and Mahat Maghandi (Ghandi) have in common?

Answer:

They both used to bottle their own pee which they would then drink later. In the case of Howard Hughes, that was often many years later - each bottle would be dated, recorded and refridgerated, to be retrieved at some point in the future.

Anyway, it is a simple fact that there is not one brand of bottled mineral water which has been proven to be cleaner than any tap water in the UK. So next time you're down at the Accy ASDA and about to stick 4 X 1.5L bottles of their finest fizzy in your trolley, stop and think: Do I really need this, or should I do what Ghandi and Hughes used to do? After all, its cheaper and the only bugs you may get will be your own.

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Human urine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since toxins are expelled from the body in urine I would never consider drinking it

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willow if you think YOUR tap water is awful, you wanna try it in Felixstowe where my aunt lives. its rank

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:D In that case I don't wanna try it :D