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Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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Big rich from big John after he used to advertise Lucozade Sport.
Let he without sin lob the first plaggy bottle I say. |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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I drink tap water, albeit filtered through a Brita and chilled. It’s quite refreshing  |
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I’m from Lancashire and the tap water or corporation pop as my dad called it was great. There’s nothing better for making your Vimto. Mind you when I was a kid NW water didn’t even add fluoride to the water, tasted great but now I’ve got no teeth.
I live in the West Midlands now and the tap water is awful, full of lime and all sorts. |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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I like tap water from the Lake District, North Wales, those sorts of soft water areas.
I like sparkling water also but the glass bottle ones taste better. There's another reason to forego the plastic bottle.  |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
I like tap water from the Lake District, North Wales, those sorts of soft water areas.
I like sparkling water also but the glass bottle ones taste better. There's another reason to forego the plastic bottle. "
Pops downstairs to the kitchen and pours myself a big glass of lake district tap water |
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I used to drink out the tap but one day I decided to run it through a microscope (I do contamination at work) and the amount of rust I found it made me start buying bottled water |
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By *ack688Man
over a year ago
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I much prefer fizzy, and over here most villages have machines in a square somewhere which are fizzy water dispensers for about 5p a litre, so you just keep reusing your own bottles so no recycling required |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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I'd love big John on my case 
Missy x |
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Always tap water unless we're out and about and have forgotten to take a bottle of tap water from home.
I like it but my husband loves going back to Scotland and drinking the water there. I know it's clearer up there but to me it tastes awful  |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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its actually worse than that as well as the bottles lorries have to deliver the bottles to the bottling factory, energy is used by the factory to bottle the water, lorries then deliver it to warehouses, they use energy to store and sort it then more lorries deliver it to shops or... you just turn on a tap and in my area gravity delivers it from north wales to my tap. i 'll get me coat |
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I must admit, I prefer bottled water but I am conscious about plastic use and being eco. I have made certain changes in my life to curb using plastic that I feel I can warrant buying bottled water *sometimes, not all*. |
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Tap water all the way. Worked in lab that looked into the plastic pollutants that is in bottled water. I don't trust shops etc to keep plastic bottles out of sunlight.
But the drinking water is nice where I am, it's not as nice in different parts of the country. |
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"Just read EVIAN backwards "
Yes!!! I learnt this years ago. I’m fine with tap water thanks. Though I did hear that ecoli was found in some tap water recently above the normal acceptable level. |
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Ive got a hot and cold water machine that is piped into my main water supply so never runs out
Pretty good piece of kit, love the cold water from it in summer, had a brita before but it took up too much room in my fridge and took forever to filter so got one of these virgin water machines instead  |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
I like tap water from the Lake District, North Wales, those sorts of soft water areas.
I like sparkling water also but the glass bottle ones taste better. There's another reason to forego the plastic bottle.
Pops downstairs to the kitchen and pours myself a big glass of lake district tap water "
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Oooh, lucky you. It tastes so crisp and clear, even a tinge of sweetness to it. |
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Tap waters fine here, in other countries it’s a necessity to drink bottled unfortunately.
But I’ve a Katadyn water filter for wild camping and will pump straight from a flowing water source. And it’s good to drink |
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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago
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"I drink tap water when I'm indoors and fill up a bottle to take with me.
I only buy bottled water if I forget to take a bottle with me and I get really thirsty.
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I do exactly the same. I'm amazed by how much shelf space is taken up in the Supermarkets nowadays. |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
Big rich from big John after he used to advertise Lucozade Sport.
Let he without sin lob the first plaggy bottle I say. "
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Bottled tastes a lot better than the water in my area, but I drink tap anyway because it genuinely annoys me that we have managed to take something that's free and turn it into a commodity  |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
I drink tap water, albeit filtered through a Brita and chilled. It’s quite refreshing "
May well get a Britta |
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Only through a Britta filter. Our kettle is also filled with filtered water to make hot drinks. Whether in a soft or hard water area, the difference in taste is massive. No chemical taste and no limescale in the kettle...or the iron for that matter. |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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I think it’s a bizarre situation in this country.
We have one of the most sophisticated water cleaning infrastructures on the planet, designed to deliver fresh drinking water direct to taps inside your home.
And yet people go out and buy the exact same stuff in a plastic bottle, for 100x the price !
Can you imagine if someone came up with a business idea on dragons den to install an underground pipeline system to deliver freshly sanitised water directly to EVERY home in the entire country, and then charge only a meagre sum for using it? They’d be laughed out of town.
Yet here we are, with exactly that, and most of us don’t even use it 
Get yourselves 2x Britta filter jugs and always have one full and in the fridge. You’ll save hundreds of £££‘s per year and you’ll also do your small part in stopping killing the sea
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
I think it’s a bizarre situation in this country.
We have one of the most sophisticated water cleaning infrastructures on the planet, designed to deliver fresh drinking water direct to taps inside your home.
And yet people go out and buy the exact same stuff in a plastic bottle, for 100x the price !
Can you imagine if someone came up with a business idea on dragons den to install an underground pipeline system to deliver freshly sanitised water directly to EVERY home in the entire country, and then charge only a meagre sum for using it? They’d be laughed out of town.
Yet here we are, with exactly that, and most of us don’t even use it
Get yourselves 2x Britta filter jugs and always have one full and in the fridge. You’ll save hundreds of £££‘s per year and you’ll also do your small part in stopping killing the sea
X
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But fluoridation makes tap water taste vile. Flouride is banned in many countries as it's a poison..yet we put in in our water and toothpaste!
Having a sophisticated water system...Next time we have a hosepipe ban after 2 weeks of sun, yet we are an island...think how good is our system really.
Nuclear subs can stay at sea for 40+ years ( only surfacing to replenish food and medicines) and they have on-board desalination plants to filter and purify seawater. These desalination plants could be built on a larger scale all around our coastline and pumped directly inland...not quite as technologically advanced as we could be are we? Especially when many parts of the country still have to pay extra again to filter vile tasting tap water using Britta or other such systems. |
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And whoever is talking about desalinated water - tastes grim and is horrendous from a perspective of electricity use. It also creates hypersaline water that has to be discharged somewhere. Doing this on a small scale is tolerable but it's not on a very large scale. |
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"I prefer tap water and really don't like sparkling water at all... it's just wrong  "
Best description I've heard is it's what TV static would taste like  |
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"Do you like tap water? Straight up tap water with nothing in it?
I prefer bottled sparkling but after John Barnes telling me the plastic bottles take 400 years to biodegrade I feel I need to drink more tap.
Don't want big John on my case.
What about you?
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I stopped using bottled ages ago for that very reason. |
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"I bought a posh water filter which comes with a water tester.
Turns out my water is pretty much the worst it's legally allowed to be. No wonder I hated water.
It tastes so nice filtered!"
I should invest in 1 of these. The kids drink lots of water |
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over a year ago
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Drink tap water all day take 2ltr bottle to work but are water is nice been loads of places and wouldn't use it to wash my car definitely wouldn't buy water |
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