Shameless: Tesco ups the price of bottled water from 17p to 24p
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My hot water always smells of eggs
I have a tendency to buy a 750ml (reasonably-sized) plastic bottle - Buxton, Evian or what-have-you and then just proceed to fill it up until I forget about it and lose it or until the lid snaps. Could last me anywhere between 3 days and a whole month.
Thinking of investing in one of those Brita Bottles. You still get your purified water if you're one of those "aquaphiles", but you're not paying 80p for the convenience every time and also aren't just wasting silly amounts of plastic bottles.
My dad's friend only drinks that Fiji~~ Water~~ stuff that's like 5 bucks for a half litre bottle. The dude fucking cooks with it. It's ridiculous.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;41540305]Impossible. I'm living in a student's home thingy.[/QUOTE]
You can buy them in pitchers now so you can just fill the pitcher and have pure water. Then you can keep the pitcher in the fridge.
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Personally I drink a lot of carbonated water so I buy them at 50 cents per liter, which is somehow cheaper than most 12 ounce water bottles.
[QUOTE=Riller;41541445]If anything, I think it tastes worse; kinda stale from being bottled for so long instead of being fed fresh oxygen in the fall from the tap to the glass :v:[/QUOTE]
Eugh, that thing where the tap water gets full of air bubbles is the worst.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;41539729]I still can't believe people buy bottled water. It doesn't come from a spring, it isn't any cleaner than the water from your own tap. The plastic bottle itself is more valuable than the water and that isn't worth anything
Get your own bottle, fill it at home[/QUOTE]
This implies that everyone has access to safe drinking tap water (of which some don't).
Still only 17p at Sainsburys! :v:
But seriously, I buy a bottle of Basics water when I'm at work because it's cheap, and saves me the hassle of walking to the other end of the store to get a drink of water when I'm rushed off my feet. The bottle claims it's spring water and gives the source, but I don't actually know if that's the case.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;41540420]Here's a top tip, by law all tap water anywhere is drinkable unless there is a sign saying "not drinking water"[/QUOTE]
In my city, the tap water is so heavily chlorinated that it tastes like swimming pool water. I still often drink it but I don't trust that shit, no matter what laws say it's technically safe to drink.
Bottled water should only be bought during a time of water-shortage or something.
I've bought it once, because I was getting dehydrated due to a construction site breaking a waterpipe causing my areas tap-water to be healthy brown and undrinkable. I bought 2 big bottles of the cheapest possible bottled water and it lasted me just enough for the tap-water to go back to normal.
[QUOTE=mobrockers;41539713]People shouldn't be buying bottled water anyways.[/QUOTE]
Tap water tastes absolutely terrible.
Good bottled water is hard to find (most taste just as bad as tap water), but when you do find a good one, it is a thousand times better than that oily-tasting sludge coming out of the tap.
tap water tastes like pipes.
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tesco water is just unfiltered tap water anyway...
[QUOTE=acds;41544809]Tap water tastes absolutely terrible.
Good bottled water is hard to find (most taste just as bad as tap water), but when you do find a good one, it is a thousand times better than that oily-tasting sludge coming out of the tap.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't known, my tap water is naturally filtered using sand dunes.
All water should be free imo
what percentage of drinking water has been through a person?
Groundwater: best of both worlds.
[QUOTE=redBadger;41545012]All water should be free imo[/QUOTE]
Well in this country it's a human right and if you don't pay your water bill they cannot legally cut your water off. [sp]however they can send the bailiffs round and take all your furniture[/sp]
My family buys the flavoured water at Tesco and it tastes brill, I still drink tap water though I go through quite a lot of them bottles in a week.
Farmfoods, 6 bottles of water for £1
It's a lifesaver when you're out, especially doing sport
[QUOTE=AK'z;41544926]tap water tastes like pipes.
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tesco water is just unfiltered tap water anyway...[/QUOTE]
Drinking water over here can be a bit off from the taps sometimes. Almost everywhere I've lived has had massive limescale issues that makes water taste kinda eeugghh.
Our drinking water has chlorine in, it's pretty much undrinkable so I had to shell out £300 squidlies for a filter. Should last 3 years though, so it'll make it all back.
[QUOTE=TheHypnotoad;41546408]Our drinking water has chlorine in, it's pretty much undrinkable so I had to shell out £300 squidlies for a filter. Should last 3 years though, so it'll make it all back.[/QUOTE]
fairly sure bottled water for 3 years is cheaper than that.
[QUOTE=AK'z;41546484]fairly sure bottled water for 3 years is cheaper than that.[/QUOTE]
Well at 24p a liter from tesco for example:
I drink on average, 3 liters a day (Not directly drink, I probably use more with kettle boil off)
So i'd need 1.5 bottles a day. A total of 36p a day, £128.16 a year, £384.48 for the full 3 years.
However, at the old price. That's only £272.34.
Conclusion? Tesco are scum.
(Also it's the convenience of having filtered water on all the time, without having to buy and store etc. etc. etc.)
you really need filtered water for boiling?
[QUOTE=AK'z;41546620]you really need filtered water for boiling?[/QUOTE]
Even after boiling the chlorine taste stays, it's mentally strong - Enough to overpower the taste of tea to be just chlorine, you can smell it.
It really is a problem in my area, something to do with the constant works and maintenance.
I remember when I lived in Australia, the water tasted like the smell of sink bugs and calcified everything it touched.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;41540027][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GceNsojnMf0[/media][/QUOTE]
I love limmy
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