Bottled water

[jaysay]

Tonights Panarama is about the bottled water industry said to be £2 billion a year in this country, do you use bottled water and why. I do buy bottled water but only for the bottle which I refile dailly as they are ideal, especially at night. I used to have a glass of water at night, but lost count of the number of times I knocked it over, thse bottles are ideal.

[Doug]

I use bottled water in the car and generally will have surplus in the boot. Obviously it’s there for drinking when travelling any distance, but I also stock up when I know the weather might be changeable especially if I’m going walking and for things like wound cleaning. In the office I have a water cooler which uses 19L bottles. I’ll use one a fortnight at the moment.

[MargaretR]

I use a Watergem filter which I installed myself
Water gem filter system. Replacement water gem filters.
The filters last 6 months for a family
I change mine yearly - so get good water on tap for £15 a year

[Bonnyboy]

Apparently it takes 7 litres of water to make 1 litre of bottled water. Then there’s the cost of the process, plastic bottle and so forth

[Yolanda25]

i only drink bottled water when i go to work and then reuse the bottle for a couple of days

[nikkival]

I drink bottled water and have a Brita filter kettle & a jug for the fridge. This is because I am very sensitive to the chlorine that United Utilities pump into the water supply and drinking water from the tap makes me ill. Why I pay for fresh drinking water is beyond me

[West Ender]

No I don't buy bottled water at home and I suspect that quite a lot of what's supposed to have come from mountain springs etc. has really come from a tap. I use a Brita filter jug and I'm not averse to asking for tap water in a restaurant. I buy bottled water when I'm abroad, even in Malta where the water is perfectly safe to drink but tastes revolting, but I buy 2 litre bottles of the cheapest I can get.

[MITZY]

How many realise that Evian is Naive spelled backwards, do the manufacturers think that about us for buying their water.......Must admit we buy it when camping .

[cashman]

only buy when abroad, read an article a couple of years ago that reckoned tap water in the north west,is as good as any bottled, but if ya wanna get suckered,be my guest.

[emamum]

i use bottled water when i go to visit my family in Batley (near Leeds) but that because their water smells like dog breath when you boil it for a brew!

Out of interest, where does our water come from? over Colne it comes from Barley, does that make it Barley water?

[Acrylic-bob]

I heard on the news this a.m. that Lancashire C.C. spends around £50,000 per year on bottled water and Manchester City Council spends a similar amount.

I wonder how much of our hard earned cash HBC spends on bottled water?

Are there any figures Graham?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

I heard on the news this a.m. that Lancashire C.C. spends around £50,000 per year on bottled water and Manchester City Council spends a similar amount.

I wonder how much of our hard earned cash HBC spends on bottled water?

Are there any figures Graham?

That £50,000 is out of your hard earned cash Bob

[panther]

On the telly this morning some fella was talking about, why do we drink bottled water when we have water from our taps and that the bottled stuff could be sent to poor countrys who have no water at all or its unsafe to drink

he quotes...."the discomforting fact that while we have perfectly good tap water we spend approaching £2 billion on bottled water when a billion people around the world don't have safe water. "

[Speedy]

I just drink tap water, tastes fine to me, especially if left in the fridge for an hour or so. At work im always filling up my lucozade sport bottle with water from our cooler. I drink about 3 litres a day.

[andrewb]

I drink bottled water when I'm on the go but not when I'm home. Even if home at the moment is Yorkshire which has an interesting taste about its water

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