I drink as much purified water as I can manage at work, but at home I just drink tap water. Now I've heard you shouldn't make a habit of drinking tap water, is this true? If so, why?

I understand the obvious- purified water is purified- but purified of what, and how can it affect you in tap water?

GazB

I think that unless you are drinking Spring Water, there's little difference, and it comes to light every now and then that the bottled stuff is only tap water anyhow. We drink tap water but put it through a water filter.

I always drink spring water, and used to drink a premium brand. However, recently have changed to Asda's own brand, and genuinely can't taste any difference! It's about a quarter of the price too :clap:

Tap water has flouride in, and is much better for your teeth :)

Well to be honest how did people ever survive drinking tap water when you can get bottled water.:loopy: Come on people whats wrong with tap water most people have been drinking it for a life time and survived.:thumbsup:

Originally posted by tslogf74
Tap water has flouride in, and is much better for your teeth :)

A pity too much flouride rots your brain then :hihi:

If your diet is balanced, you don't need flouride in your water.

my father had his adult teeth ruined, whilst they were forming in his jaw, because he was over-flouridated, as a child during the war.

His adult teeth grew brown in colour, and "freckled" or "mottled", and looked really unsightly.

the kids who need the flouride are being passed by, because the kids who need their teeth "protecting" are the sort of kids who wouldn't get much drinking water, anyway, whether it was tap or bottled. those kiddies would be more likely to be supping fizzy, acidic, "rots-yer-teef" sugared "pop" and therefore would not benefit.
so we, who don't need it, are being forcibly medicated... and the kids it's designed to protect, are getting passed by.

And on the subject of tap-water vs mineral/ bottled waters....
according to a newspaper article, today(well yesterday, now, -wed 05/01/05), there's no difference in taste between the water froom a tap, or out of a bottle, if the water is chilled.

P "so save your money" T

Originally posted by Plain Talker

And on the subject of tap-water vs mineral/ bottled waters....
according to a newspaper article, today(well yesterday, now, -wed 05/01/05), there's no difference in taste between the water froom a tap, or out of a bottle, if the water is chilled.

P "so save your money" T


Whoops! so when we met over a crowded checkout the other day you would have been disapointed to see the 6 bottles of mineral water and several bottles of coke in my trolley.

And you thought i had my head screwed on... i feel suitably ashamed ;)

Paul x

It may taste the same, but your, bones, brain and many other parts of the body won't think so...

What happened with the plans to add fluoride to the water in Sheffield? I know it didn't used to be added but there were plans to do so and this was causing a big argument..... anyone know the outcome?

If you think tap water is ok, look at the water that comes out of the radiators when you bleed them :gag:

Originally posted by tslogf74
Tap water has flouride in, and is much better for your teeth :)

Sheffield does not have fluridated water.

Hard water is actually healthier for you than filtered or soft spring water. So drinking tap water is probably healthier than bottled unless you have lead pipes in the house.

On one of the bodybuilding websites I get alot of info from, it says not to drink tap water.. It loves confusing me!

Thanks for the responses,

GazB

Just be careful what type of bottled water you buy - some of it - may be no more than tap water repackaged!

I have happily drunk tap water all my life - and I feel fine - why pay more even more money for water in a bottle? - My water rates are high enough as it is!

Check this out for definitions of bottled water: http://www.britishsoftdrinks.com/htm/qa/BottledWater.htm

there's no way i'd drink the water that comes out of our taps, not on its own anyway it tastes like its been sat in a pond for a month!!!:help:
its ok in squash and hot drinks tho, takes the taste away.

Originally posted by Cyclone
Sheffield does not have fluridated water.

Hard water is actually healthier for you than filtered or soft spring water. So drinking tap water is probably healthier than bottled unless you have lead pipes in the house.

I believe it is in areas with soft water that lead pipes are really dangerous because soft water is acidic and disolves the lead; hard water tends to line lead pipes with a deposit of scale.

I thought the water authorities were now obliged to replace all lead pipes on their side of the supply and wasn't there a grant available for householders/landlords to replace any 'in house' lead piping ?

A-Ha! Found this (http://www.lamuscle.com/docs/magazine/articles/view/61) very interesting article.

Gaz

I think there is a great deal of crap talked about tap water. I know someone who still believes a stupid scare story that tap water is full of hormones.

I used to travel to a lab in north wales, as part of my work, where they accidentally discovered some dangerous chemical in some very famous french bottled water, Because they used to use it as a standard blank samples in some scientific analysis equipment and all of a sudden the results all went off the scales. !!!!

I would say that it depends where you live as to what your tap water is like. Where I live in woodseats, my water is so pure and fresh tasting that you could easily sell it. My friends used to have one of the new houses behind the sheaf at the bottom of fraser, and their water was the same as mine just as good.

Down the road at heeley bottom where I work, on Broadfield road, the water there is absolutely discusting, it tastes like it is full of minerals, even tea and coffee doesn't taste very nice. I always get bottled stuff.

At Sharrow, where my friend lives, the water there tastes a little "soapy", you can drink it, it's not as bad as the heeley water.

In hillsborough at my parents house, towards middlewood. The water is drinkable there, but tastes just a little chloriney. However it is the second best after my woodseats water.

And because my water is so pure and nice. All the beer and wine that I make in my house is gorgeous, and I am constantly surprising my friends and relatives with the high quality of it all.

Sheffield tap water is fantastic, especially in Woodhouse. I regularly fill up bottles to take back home!

i used to drink the tap water when i lived in nether edge and woodseats cause it tasted and smelled ok. Now that i live in hackenthorpe i think it smells a bit chlorinated so i got a water filter. It does take the chlorine smell away (my geeky boyfriend tested this by giving me 2 glasses of water one filtered one not, it was easy to tell the difference.

I'm in Hillsborough, and my tap water is lovely, I drink gallons of the stuff. And I resent paying for still mineral water, I don't think it's as nice. Although I LOVE sparkling water. The cheaper the better......!

Originally posted by BoroughGal
I'm in Hillsborough, and my tap water is lovely, I drink gallons of the stuff. And I resent paying for still mineral water, I don't think it's as nice. Although I LOVE sparkling water. The cheaper the better......!

Expensive tastes eh?

I don't mind tap water, but buy alot of bottled water when i'm out and about. I do find it strange that people were so against Dasani (which isn't bad at all, and very cheap), but will go out and spend money on water purifiers! Its just the same thing, it's not like they were trying to sell tap water.

i use filter water,not by choice but my tap water is warm enough to have a bath in:)

Tap water has more dodgy bacteria and heavy metals in it than spring water. Also every now and then there is a car in the ladybower, fishlive in there to ducks cr*p in it sheep sh*t there too.

Apparently all tap water has gone through at least 7 other people before it gets to us. NASTY

Also if there was ever an attempt to poisen the UKs water supply in an act of war or terrorism it is pretty easy to get to the tap water supply.

So spring water is safer than tap water not sure about purified water as it is still tap water that has been through a purifier. Iguess there is less heavy metals in it.

Originally posted by jonsastar
Tap water has more dodgy bacteria and heavy metals in it than spring water.

Never hurt me, not once.

Originally posted by jonsastar
Also every now and then there is a car in the ladybower, fishlive in there to ducks cr*p in it sheep sh*t there too.


That's why it goes through a lengthy cleaning process, so all the ducks cr*p and sheep sh*t and steering wheels are filtered out.

Originally posted by jonsastar
Apparently all tap water has gone through at least 7 other people before it gets to us. NASTY


When you think about it, there's only a limited amount of water on the earth, in the sea, in the atmosphere. It's probably been through way more people than 7 in the history of the earth (not that I know a deal about geography - someone PLEASE pick me up on my errors)!!!

Originally posted by jonsastar
Also if there was ever an attempt to poisen the UKs water supply in an act of war or terrorism it is pretty easy to get to the tap water supply.

You'd also get poisioned if you drank water in tea and coffee, or with dilute drinks. Or used water in cooking. Possibly if you just brushed your teeth with it. So beware!

But spring waters good too! Just costs too much for my liking.

Originally posted by jonsastar
Apparently all tap water has gone through at least 7 other people before it gets to us. NASTY

Hehe, as apposed to bottled water that has come from the ground and has never been used before? No water is new, it's all been through animals of all sorts, and all has bacteria and the like in.

I drink water from the tap too, and I do like the taste most of the time but somtimes in the summer it tastes dodgy and in the autumn its even worse, dont know why this is but I tend not to drink it so much at these times.

Also water has allways been a way of spreading germs in history such as cholera and such.

Before the derwent and lady bower resevoirs were built there were a lot of water caused infections about.

I guess chlorine and flouride cant stop every thing also there is chance of contamination after or during the cleaning process.

Originally posted by Snook
Hehe, as apposed to bottled water that has come from the ground and has never been used before? No water is new, it's all been through animals of all sorts, and all has bacteria and the like in.

The water that comes from spring apparently has taken thousands of years to filter through various rock formations adding minerals and such on the way through also cleansing on the way, (so it says on the bottle any way)

I love the water that came out of the chilled water fountains at Hallam uni. I used to fill bottles up with the stuff and it's all I'd drink all day.