Can you tell tap water from bottled?

Question

Tap water beats bottles in taste test
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/17/nwater117.xml

Answer 1

I agree with Puzzled, water quality depends where you are, down here in South Devon, it's revolting, even the cheapest mineral water (17p for 2l) tastes much better.

Answer 2

I have just done a blind test on this very subject. The bottled water was safely diluted with 5% alcohol so tasted a lot better than the tap water. It was a bottle of beer.
Bottling water is a vile modern extravagance loved by people who talk about organic food and saving the earth's resources.

Answer 3

Yes I can tell the difference immediately-I really don't like tap water and find bottled much nicer. Don't know if it's the area we live in but the tap water is horrible-very metallic tasting.

Answer 4

I can only tell the difference when it is running out of the faucet to be placed in bottles. After that I get confused as to whether it is now tap water or bottled water.

Answer 5

Where I live, there's so much chlorine in the water that it smells of swimming baths, tastes awful and bleaches the sink. I use a jug filter to make it taste exactly the same as cheap bottled water. It's not as good as Pellegrino, but it's about £2 a litre cheaper.

Answer 6

rattling, that's too plenty for one bottle of water. i think of the main important rip off interior the international is Fiji water, it is fantastically much $5 for a 0.5 a gallon. there's a huge difference in bottled as against faucet water. in case you positioned faucet water in a sparkling glass on a white countertop and positioned a glass of bottled water next to it interior the comparable sort of glass, you will see the faucet water has an extremely yellow tint to it. there is likewise chemical ingredients which contain flouride and chlorine extra to the faucet water on the therapy flora. The yellow tint is from calcium build-up interior the pipes the water flows through. That calcium may be related to bladder and kidney stones. in case you % to drink faucet water, I recommend you employ some sort of filter out, a Brita is fantastic, or you could ball out and purchase the opposite osmosis equipment which NASA astronauts use in area as a results of fact it works so properly you could easily recycle urine into organic water. I observed a demonstration as quickly as the place a guy took rain water mixed with dirt and ran it through a opposite osmosis filter out and then drank the water it produced. It appeared crystal sparkling.

Answer 7

In my area the tap water is awful. It actually tastes mouldy!

I have drunk and cooked with nothing but bottled water for 10 years. I only use tap water for cleaning and washing.

Answer 8

I can tell the difference blindfolded. Tap water usually has a metallic taste to it due to the minerals in it and rusty pipes it flows through.

I prefer drinking bottled spring water.

Answer 9

Not if the bottled water came from a tap in the first place!! Also, the dark floaties in my tap water would give it away!

Answer 10

Yes, all American bottled water is run thru an osmosis system taking the bugs out, but also taking any minerals out. So its clean but not fresh like tap water is.