Tap Water

[George 1978]

I have got some Perrier in the weekly online shop - interesting how that will taste to a traditional tap water drinker such as myself.

[George 1978]

Re: Tap Water

I thought that water was an endless thing simply because if we can fill the world's oceans with the stuff, then surely we can run a bath and flush toilets with the stuff. Also, when we drink water, it leaves our body after a few hours and, shall we say, re-enters the system via the sewage works when we flush the toilets. The water that we drink has been rumoured to be the same water that out ancestors have drunk all those years ago.

Will the Daily Mail be complaining about an oxygen shortage next? After all, what does the O in H2O actually stand for?

[Mulletino]

Re: Tap Water

I sometimes wonder when the media talks about water shortage (or scarcity) if the problem is now only evident because a large chunk of the planet's water supply is now sitting in shops/warehouses/factories in bottles, whereas it never used to be pre-80s.

[Zincubus]

Re: Tap Water

Were they based in Buxton in Derbyshire, hence Buxton Natural Mineral Water?

Can’t remember sorry ...


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[George 1978]

Re: Tap Water

Remember that midlands company last year that was filing their bottles from the taps and selling it on

Were they based in Buxton in Derbyshire, hence Buxton Natural Mineral Water?

[George 1978]

Re: Tap Water

It was advertised on TV in the 1980s - I have seen a few ad breaks on YT that advertises Perrier.

[Mulletino]

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Yeah Perrier was around in the 80s although wasn't that fizzy water? Then the explosion of bottled water in the 90s, good old Evian, not sure if they are trolling or not as that's Naive backwards!

[George 1978]

Re: Tap Water

It just occurred to me whilst reading some of these comments; I don't recall water bottles in the 70s. I am certain my parents never purchased water bottles.
When I am at the supermarket I am always bemused by the bulk purchase of water.
We just stick to a water filter.

I thought they were a 1990s thing to be honest apart from the posh stuff like Perrier of course - the first time I was familiar with them was when we started to have Evian and supermarket own name brand empty water bottles in the Biology lab at school where the monitors too turns to water the plants which were on the windowsill at the back of the room.

[Zincubus]

Re: Tap Water

It just occurred to me whilst reading some of these comments; I don't recall water bottles in the 70s. I am certain my parents never purchased water bottles.
When I am at the supermarket I am always bemused by the bulk purchase of water.
We just stick to a water filter.

I prefer tap water to anything you can buy ...

Remember that midlands company last year that was filing their bottles from the taps and selling it on

Presumably it was a ex employee who dossed them in ...


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[Moonraker]

Re: Tap Water

It just occurred to me whilst reading some of these comments; I don't recall water bottles in the 70s. I am certain my parents never purchased water bottles.
When I am at the supermarket I am always bemused by the bulk purchase of water.
We just stick to a water filter.

[Mulletino]

Re: Tap Water

I'd get some to use for now just in case. There was an issue with my in-laws' local water supply (in Australia) which got contaminated, the father-in-law ended up getting an UTI from it!

I remember as a kid sometimes seeing those little larvae things wiggling in the tap water sometimes.

[George 1978]

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A couple of weeks ago, Severn Trent wrote to me and local residents and told us that our water supply was being worked on during the early hours, and that we may be getting discoloured water - they mentioned not using showers or baths, flushing the toilet, etc. This was to happen during the early hours when most people were asleep, but I still thought that as a tap water drinker, that should I need to go and buy the bottled stuff? I did feel that they were saying to me that I risk being poisoned if I drunk tap water while they were doing their work.

I am glad that they have finished their work, that is what I can say about the matter.

[Silver Bear]

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I love the North of England: the culture, the accents and the dry humour really 'do' it for me. I also really like the friendliness. When I go 'up North' I feel that in a way I'm going home.

That's absolutely right. I'm not at all down on London - it's a wonderful place (whatever you say up North), but I am more outgoing than most Southerners and that's one reason why I like the North and Northerners so much. They notice it as well and tell me that I'm "like one of us". Who could wish for a nicer compliment than that?

[Richard1978]

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I love the North of England: the culture, the accents and the dry humour really 'do' it for me. I also really like the friendliness. When I go 'up North' I feel that in a way I'm going home.

It's interesting that my old girlfriend grew up in London & Bedford before moving to Manchester because of her job. She used to say how different it was to where she grew up.

[Silver Bear]

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When my old girlfriend lived in Nelson we often drove out country pubs in that area.

I love the North of England: the culture, the accents and the dry humour really 'do' it for me. I also really like the friendliness. When I go 'up North' I feel that in a way I'm going home.