Do You Drink Water Straight From The Tap... ?

Question

Some people say it is ok, but others say you should boil it first.

[I always drink bottled water because i cant stand the taste of tap water!]

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**I live in London. The water is REALLY bitter!

**NO WAY does it taste the same as bottled water! It's like comparing Evian to Eden Falls! Evian all the time!!!

Answer 1

NO way!!
noooo.
the chlorination process does NOT kill all bacteria.
that water's been through a different person probably 12 hours before me.
Only boiled water, for tea or coffee etc., but not for drinking.

Answer 2

Britains tap water is checked and double checked all the time, filtered and processed with a lot of hard work to get it to a high quality. Your kitchen tap is mains so drink away. If you have a tank in your loft chances are every other tap is non-drinking water, as it has been stored in your tank so therefore has been sitting around so not classed as fresh. If you've seen some of the crap in the tanks I've seen, you wouldn't drink from any tap but your kitchen tap.
As for bottled water, why not put some tap water in the fridge then compare it to see if you can see a difference?
Obviously some areas the water isn't as good a quality as other areas (hard water/lead pipes etc), though still well drinkable, unless your abroad, then just avoid it altogether.

Answer 3

To SUE who said, in the US, all tap water is more pure than bottled, you should move to Minnesota. Or Albany, New York. Or Tampa, Florida. Etc. Etc. I travel a lot. And some of the tap water...including in my own home...SMELLS AND/OR TASTES LIKE BLEACH, ROTTEN EGGS, OR A VARIETY OF OTHER BAD SMELLS/TASTES YOU WOULD NOT EXPECT ANYONE TO DRINK!! It depends on the process your city uses to 'purify' the drinking water it supplies. Where I live, I am sure they use some kind of chlorine, because you can smell it when you pour yourself a glass. I wouldn't drink it if my life depended on it...until two months ago, when I finally invested in a Brita Water Purifier you attach directly to your tap. Honestly, I didn't think it would help that much. It claims to remove 99% of toxics out of your water. And I believe it. The water no longer has ANY SMELL AT ALL, and tastes like water should taste. WET!!

Invest in a water purification system. It will save you money. I previously bought tap water to cook with, drink, and even water for my dog came out of a bottle as I was afraid he would end up with cancer or something from drinking all that BLEACH!! It has made a HUGE difference.

Answer 4

Just recently i read that bottled water is no good for your health as it contains too much of salt (high blood pressure, headaches ext follow that). I believe that water with tight closed cap is no any good. The water is alive by the way and if it is bottled so you cannot get much of that "alive" to yourself. I live in London, the water has lots of room for an improvement but I use filter all the the time and from now on I don't use bottled one.

Answer 5

My family and I always drink from bottle water. The tap water over here smells weird.

Answer 6

I am in the UK and only ever used a water filter for the 5 years I lived in Sussex because the water was very chalky. Other then that, from the tap is fine by me!

Answer 7

No. I also drink only bottled water. Because tap water is disgusting. But sometimes I feel bad because of nature preservation.
At least I separate waste:-/

Answer 8

In the USA the standards for drinking water are set by law and all tap water is more pure than bottled.

If you don't like the taste of bottled water, add just a bit of lemon, lime, cranberry, or pomegranite juice. I use about a tablespoon to 16 ounce glass.

Answer 9

Bottled water is tap water! It's just been purified...which can be done at home for a lot cheaper! So you are drinking tap water! I drink tap water that I filter first!

Answer 10

if it tastes bad then it is bad. I don't drink tap water in the US because of fluoridation. Fluoridation is slow poison. So I drink water that has been through reverse osmosis because sometimes the water is contaminated with other chemicals as well.

Answer 11

Hi, my sister always gets mouth ulcers from drinking the tap water so we have a water filter that we filter it through first, she found that after she did not have so many ulcers and the water does taste different. Water filters are cheaper and easy to use.