Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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A piece from a current science magazine, tap water contains a huge amount of elements and compounds. Chloride is added to kill bacteria, and fluoride to strengthen your teeth as well as, nitrates from fertiliser runoff, iron, copper, lead, chromium, manganese, aluminium and nickel from the plumbing itself. Plus, up to 30 other contaminates or pesticides at minute concentrations. So, tap water for you or the bottled spring water? I personally have my tap water for tea and coffee, but bottled water for drinking. Incidently, I did a thread in January about holy water but only a couple of posts referred to tap water.
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But at least it looks like water Colin, in Nigeria the tap water is often brown!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Same as you Colin, tap water for tea and bottled water for drinking.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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pass me a beer
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i am the same as colin and jeane.
i doubt there is much difference between them, just the marketing of the bottled variety has conned us all over the years.
Brian Dixon
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hey sid,what brown in nigeria thats nothing.in ireland its black with a creamy head,i think they call guiness or murphys or somthing simaler.it allso comes in red as well.
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Evian reverse it naive! say no more
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Coca Cola Corp, Eva Water - Tap water al a Delboy. Had to be removed from the shops. Now a big seller in Nigeria.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Howard, it`s always good to get a reply to one`s topics on here. To get two is even better. To get three in one hit is sensational. Do come again soon.
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Colin, it was thinking about all that Liffey water, it gets poor Howie every time.
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Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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Corporation Lemonade! We have some of the cleanest water in the world coming out of our taps so why splash out on that bottled rubbish! Some of those trace minerals mentioned in post #1 are actually useful!
Phil West
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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For me, it's about taste. I actually find the cloudy water that comes out of our taps really horrible to the taste; I've drunk tap water elsewhere and some of it is OK, but the stuff here is full of lime and chalk which makes it horrible (and destroys kettles quickly). Much as though I don't like paying to drink water, I will drink chilled sparkling mineral water but prefer tea or coffee.
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Guest 695- Registered: 30 Mar 2010
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Sorry about the awful voiceover on this external link but it does somewhat explain the "need" for bottled water.
http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/. Personally I won't drink water straight from the tap if I can help it, I just don't like the flavour straight, once it's filtered I'm fine with it.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Welcome Tony, and a very interesting bit of film there mate. Some of those trace mineral`s Phil are essential, but it all looks interesting what`s in water. I haven`t drunk our tap water for the past few years now, as it seems to have aquired a funny taste. We do drink it though if it`s with squash etc, and of course, tea and coffee, but I still stick to the bottled water at home, though not an awful lot.
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Guest 695- Registered: 30 Mar 2010
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Thanks Colin, there's more to it than *just* the marketing of the stuff. I believe our tap water to be safe, though I don't like the taste, there are bigger issues with the bottles themselves. I'll look out some more info and post later.
Beware, some bottled waters contain SALT!!!! Go figure.
Yuk hate any sort of water bottled or tap and having three delightful children nothing worse having to drink 2 pints + of the stuff before a ultrasound scan.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You can purchase water 'dug up' from the artic which hasn't circulated the atomsphere for the past 20,000 years or so ie not revamped sewage water.£700 per bottle,the Japs love it with their Dimple whisky.
Marek
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I`ve experienced that four times in the last 2 years Melissa, and it`s caught me out a few times when I`ve had a couple of tea`s beforehand, then told to drink that big jug of water. Very difficult.
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