Tap water

I am quite a big water drinker but much prefer bottle water, I think it tastes a lot cleaner and generally nice but with the hot weather I have run out of bottled(shopping gets delivered later)so have had to drink tap water and it proves my point it is absolutly disgusting.

I'm generally the opposite - despise paying for water in a bottle (particularly where you hear of cases such as (was it coca-cola?) selling bottled water which was straight from the tap!).

However, I do think it depends on where you live - I love the water I get at home, but am not so keen on it at work.

Have you tried putting some in the fridge - temperature has a lot to do with how water tastes.

Actually tap water in the UK is probably cleaner & fresher than any bottled water. It's worth putting jugs of water in the fridge as this will take away any chemical taste & I add just a little bit of fruit juice to water I drink at least 2 litres of water everyday

Buy a filter jug, or a filter for the tap!

I remember that, reminded me of only fools and horses

It most likey is cleaner but it still doesnt, imo taste as good. Same here, always drink roughly 2 litres.

I did try a britta(sp) a could of years ago, it was an improvment but still imo wasnt as nice.

Oy Stormey!! You get your water from us here in the Lake District dont you should be nice and fresh, up here we are envious of you!!! But yes I agree it tastes awful, like you I ran out yest so drank from the tap, let it run a while but still not nice yet they tell us its good for us yuk.

When I was in uni i'd drink bottled water every day and then once you are used to it, tap water does taste very 'chemically' and smells a bit 'bleachy' like chlorine? But before I started drinking bottled water I never really noticed. However if you let it 'settle' and chill it, it does taste better but i'm the same, I prefer bottled water when it's on it's own.

I will drink tap water with juice (although I usually go for fresh juices, I don't often drink dilute) or in tea or coffee (I drink coffee by the gallon!) but as for water on it's own, nah, I prefer the bottled stuff.

I'm always paranoid however with just how much chemicals are in it?

Our tap water is really good. It doesn't taste of chlorine at all, although I always run the tap for a long time so it gets really cold.

If I go to stay with friends (especially in London) I drink bottled water though, because I always get an upset tum drinking different tap water.

I used to drink Volvic bottled water when I was in hospital because the water they used to bring in the jugs was awful. It was always warm and really chemical tasting.

When I had low intra-cranial pressure I had to drink 3 litres a day for about 3 weeks (it was the only way to get the pressure inside my head back up), plus I had a saline drip. I was weeing all the time!!!!!!!

I think we get ours from the same place? Kielder? And I don't like ours...

filterd than chilled tastes fine
we have hard chalky water here so we need to filter