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They are being investigated for by the Food Standards Agency for misleading labelling of the product, so it's not entirely stupidity to blame in this instance.

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I usually filter my water because I don't want the chlorine and fluoride that is put into tap water. On a positive note, we have some of the best tap water in the world (imo) as we can drink it straight from the tap without getting Delhi Belly....something you can't do even in places like Italy!

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Amazes me that they are allowed to do it in Kent where there are water shortage problems every year now. WOuld it not be better to draw it from a central london spring where the water table is rising or from up north where there is generally more water around?

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Our tap water is excellent and at the moment it is so cold that it gives you a headache if you drink it to quick.:cool:

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When I used to go to the gym (don't laugh anyone who knows me), I used to take bottled water. Not out of any attempt to be healthy, just conveniance..

Actually, I think the only real difference between bottled water and tap water is the profit margin, and marketing (I wonder if Isotonically balanced water is actually any better for you than normal water)..

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We have a filter and softener in our basement for all the water. But we don't drink or cook with it. We buy those 4 gallon jugs and have a water dispenser. Nice, fresh distilled water. Tastes ... bland, but sure is healthy without the extra rocks and stones called "minerals" added to spring water.

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So do you filter and soften your water just to wash yourself and flush the toilet? :confused:

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Isotonic drinks, like the 'sport' drinks, are good if you have lost fluid due to perspiration, or diarrhoea, as they replace some of the lost minerals & give a glucose boost, as well.

Otherwise there is nothing wrong with normal water:)

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I noticed that today's paper described it as being filtered 3 times and then further purified by reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis is used in modern lab systems for producing pure water. These systems have a fair number of stages. Speaking from memory, they would start of with a deioniser to get rid of most of the minerals, then there'd be reverse osmosis to highly purify it then probably something like 'polishing' with activated carbon to get rid of any trace organics left.

So I'd say that the water in the bottle is quite pure. However, I also noticed that they had to put back in all the magnesium, sodium, bicarbonate and sulphate that they'd gone to all the trouble to remove to get some taste back into the insipid brew that they'd taken all the trouble to produce!

If you want tap water that has probably had trace heavy metals and (possibly) trace organics taken out of it, then by all means buy it; but I'll guarantee that you're paying an arm and a leg for something not much better than tap water. Probably better to spend your money on a Brita filter or similar.

Nostalgia time When I was a young lad (come back here, you!), we purified water by distillation or, for the luxury version, double distillation. If your water was like liquid chalk, the elements would fur up completely by the end of the first day.

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What's wrong with southern water.I like the stuff we get out of Portsdown Hill.All that calcium must be good for good healthy bones and it adds flavour. :)

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i buy my water from asda......18 pence for 1.5 litres
tastes just as nice as evian or perrier......

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I'm sure it does. Does it have an analysis on the label? If you take everything out, it tastes pretty, well, untasteful.

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we have hard water here too - it comes from an aquifer, when we visit my sister in Scotland, where the water is really soft, I find I don't like to drink it, just doesn't taste 'right'.

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Memories eh, when I was young and stupid, (now old and much the same) and at school, I remember being in the Science Room, the teacher was distilling some water. I did not notice the hose from the cold tap running into the equipment, all I could see was a bunsen burner under a glass jar, a few strange glass structures and a strong flow of water coming out of the end of a piece of rubber tube.
I asked the teacher why, if such a small amount of water could be turned into a steady flow, why wasn't this process used in the desert.:dunce: DOH.:D

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our water here comes from severn trent apparently... nice and free :)