Favourite Bottled Water?

TCamen

What's yer favourite brand of bottled water?

They do all taste different. I like Volvic myself :cool:

Doctor Funfrock

drinking bottled water is stupid, ITS WATER HELLO?????

EVIAN = NAIVE

vorbis

just have to say that I still can't get over the fact that people buy bottled water in Ireland. Like selling snow to the eskimos.

silverside

Vittel, or River Rock, but i can't really notice much difference.

Tesco Value usually does me fine.

ixoy

My favourite brand is Dublin City Council, poured into an empty bottle that I have. DCC - yer only man.

silverside

You wouldnt say that if you saw the colour of the tap water around here, its almost white and tastes mank

TCamen

EVIAN = NAIVE

I don't care for Evian really. The dog likes it though. Go figure.

spongebob

de Lidl stuff is just like Volvic (acidic and no icky lime in it )

less than half de price

M

Woden

there blatantly is a taste difference i don't like the ballygown stuff myself, i'd go with volvic also

Explosive_Cornflake

I'd have to say riverrock, still always mind you.

Johnny_the_fox

tap water...

does the same job in any bottle...

Giblet

Or fill a bottle with tap water, y'know whatever.

Woden

that depends on the tap water some tap water is minging like the stuff in the houses up in blanch full of crap, thankfully tap water in my area is ok

data

40crush41

Fiji Water! pure taste and nice bottle

forget snapple, thats the greatest stuff on earth.

~beth

OfflerCrocGod

Originally posted by Dataisgod
that depends on the tap water some tap water is minging like the stuff in the houses up in blanch full of crap, thankfully tap water in my area is ok

I live in blanch and the water is just fine - stop besmirching my area!!!;).

Gaz

Watched a programme on TV awhile ago and they where showing just how much of a rip off bottled water really is. I havnt bought bottled water since.

What you pay for one bottle , the company gets the equivalent of an olympic size swimming pool of water. Thats like a million gallons or something.

Tap water left in the fridge is just as nice , or get yourself a water filter.

TCamen

I thought it was funny about the Coke bottled water Desani, that it really was just tap water in a bottle

Had it once, it was horrible.

niallith

ballygowan tbh

Winters

Originally posted by TCamen
I thought it was funny about the Coke bottled water Desani, that it really was just tap water in a bottle

Had it once, it was horrible.

Possibly as it was dangerous and had to be taken off the market, their "purifing" system actually added a dangerously high level of cemicals. Hence the "horrible" taste.

DrunkLeprachaun

I actualy preffer tap water. Only reason I buy bottle water is for a container to put my tap water in, I often thow out most of the water I payed for,

Agent Smith

volvic is pretty nice!

Puck

Refilled from a water filter I keep in the fridge, it's the only way to go really. Occasionally though I do have to buy a new bottle so I have something to refill. In that case I buy a 750ml bottle of Riverrock. The bottle is a handy size and a nice shape, a lot of bottles are either too big or too small or the plastic feels a bit flimsy but those ones are just right.

Zaphod B

Tap water my way is pretty clear; I have empty bottles lying around. You've got all the scares about bottled water being left around for years before it's shipped to you etc. Plus it's just one more way to waste money. Plain old tap water for me.

blobert

i much prefer my tap water to bottled. perhaps its all the lead in the pipes but it has a much better taste!

i don't know if you've ever tried the tap water in london or new york but it is beyond terrible. the secret to making even the most manky tap water drinkable is to add a lot of ice or refrigerate. it all tastes fine when very cold.

why am i talking about water???

DRakE

food and drink board

AdMMM

It's amazing just how muxh of a rip-off bottled water is.

I mean you can get a litre of petrol which comes from Saudi Arabia, a heavily taxed and finite resource for about 90c. While a litre of bottled water costs about €1 (Ballygowan, Volvic etc).

In saying that I often buy the stuff, but Tesco Value often does me fine...

Sleepy

Volvic is definately the nicest of the bottled waters. In Galway there's no real choice about it, if you want to drink water you either buy bottled or you put in a filtration system of some kind. The water is laced with Chlorine and so is absolutely mingin!

Rabies

Just fill up a water filter jug at night and use it the next day. Simple.
I will buy bottled water at times, usually if i have a hangover

][cEMAN**

Ballygowan for me. If you saw the condition of most of the water i've had to drink from taps here you'd understand. When the pipes are so bad that the water comes out brown - i've haven't drunk tap water since!

Kalina

I don't buy bottled water- unless I'm feeling guilty about my intake of Coca Cola & lucozade!!

dudara

I only drink water and milk, so i get through a lot of water, and I can't say I notice any difference between the bottled brands. I just but a litre bottle and refill it from the dispenser at work (Ballygowan I think), or the tap, until it start to go green on the inside, which is when I get a new bottle.


The tap water at home is perfect, no chlorine taste, but I have found that some places in Dublin and elsewhere I can't drink the tap water due to horrible chemical tastes. My parents have their own well at home and the water there is always freezing cold and crystal clear, even in the middle of summer, now that's the business.

zAbbo

Tap water with a slice of lemon, or if i buy water then its any of them really

Genghis

My tap water is disgusting, it actually tastes alright, but it looks brown, so I don't drink it at all. We tried a Brita filter, but while it takes out the brown, I find filtered water tastes horrible.

Instead I either:

1. Fill my bottle @ work (2 litres a day)
2. Drink Lidl's - their 'expensive' 59c/ 2 ltr bottle
3. Drink Lidls less expensive 45c / 2ltr spring water
4. Buy Tescos value water (which afaik is 'still', but not 'spring')

I rarely buy small bottles of water, unless I am really stuck. A good tip is to buy the 6-pack of no.2 above, 6 500ml 'Volvic'-type water for 1.79 in Lidl. Then leave them in the fridge / car etc. Better again, refill these when done.

(Another problem I have with small bottles is the environmental angle).

Pacifico

VOLVIC!!!!

Its really nice i tell ye;)

dudara

Another problem I have with small bottles is the environmental angle

that's a huge problem alright.

Raskolnikov

Usually tap water, if I'm stuck for water then I get Ballygowan, none of this French crap for me

Incidently, Riverrock bottled water is supposed to be one of the worst brands to drink. Contains the highest amount of sodium of any other water on the market.

Stark

Some bottled waters do taste a lot better than others, but I usually buy Ballygowan because it's slightly cheaper and my money goes back into the Irish economy (I hope). But I only buy bottled water in the first place, when I don't get a chance to refill an existing bottle.

Lump

Volvic.... Tried that Dansai water... UMMMM HUMMMMM it's tap water, but FFS if the tap water where I live in england tasted that good I wouldn't drink anything else. Pity they had to recall all the UK water cause it contained harmful levels of some chemical


John

dsimpson

I would never ever ever drink that tap water in belfast....its full of flouride... and it basically violates the individual's right to informed consent to medication.

catsup

out of all the bottled waters, its gotta be volvic. reckon thats because it tastes like the tap water at home. ive moved out and the tap water where im living now has a nasty metallic aftertaste, so we just use a filter.

on a lighter note, the average glass of tapwater in london has 'been through' 10 other people before it reaches your glass (since falling as rain) makes you wonder bout the tap water in dublin...:dunno:

blobert...ive never tried the new york tap water but apparently its one of the cleanest in the states because they get their supply from an upstate reservoir.

LoneGunM@n

I used to only drink water from the tap, but my doc put my on a diet to reduce my colestoral [sp?] which only allows bottled water!!

So, I normally buy Ballygowan.

dudara

How does not drinking tap water affect your cholestrol?

silverside

Lonegunman that sounds like a load of sh!te tbh. either you or your doctor doesn't know what they are talking about.

dsimpson

Sure we are all getting slowly poisoned by flouride!!! Why are you surprised that its affecting this chap's health??

Sleepy

Well, the reason I wouldn't drink Galway tap water is because it tastes of Chlorine. Not because I dislike the flavour of Chlorine, mind you, mainly because I know why the chlorine was pumped through the Galway water pipes: the council managed to back an effluent pipe up through the water system! :eek:

LoneGunM@n

Originally posted by dudara
How does not drinking tap water affect your cholestrol?

Haven't a clue ... just following doctors orders!!

Originally posted by silverside
Lonegunman that sounds like a load of sh!te tbh. either you or your doctor doesn't know what they are talking about.

As I've said doctors orders ... I'll try and root out the diet sheet & scan it on! I know it says that I'm only allowed drink tea [with skimmed milk] & bottled water :dunno:

Stark

Must get one of those filter thingies to strip the fluorine out of my tap water.

By the way, has there ever been any political lobbying to get them to stop adding the fluorine to the water?

LoneGunM@n

I've had a browse on google for the link between tap water and cholestoral & found this article: Alzheimer's study targets tap water

Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 12, 2003 12:00 AM


A Valley scientist played a key role in a new study that shows tap water with trace amounts of copper accelerates Alzheimer's disease in rabbits with high cholesterol.

Researchers now want to find out if the same holds true in people, many of whom already have an emerging risk factor - high cholesterol - for the growing neurodegenerative disorder.

"If there's a relationship in humans, it would be huge," said D. Larry Sparks, lead author of a study published Monday in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sparks, a senior scientist for Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City, stumbled on the finding while studying the role high cholesterol plays in Alzheimer's.

After years of inducing the disease in rabbits in Kentucky by feeding them high levels of cholesterol, Sparks couldn't understand why he was unable to do the same at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix or at his lab in Sun City.

He seized on the only difference he could find between the Kentucky lab animals and those in the Valley: Rabbits here were being fed with distilled water whereas the Kentucky rabbits were being fed tap water. He tested his hypothesis by giving rabbits in Arizona tap water, thereby inducing the disease again.

His conclusion: Distilled water provides protection against the disease, but tap water with EPA-accepted levels of copper speeds up the process.

Sparks and his colleague, Bernard Schreurs of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute in West Virginia, are now analyzing whether other forms of bottled water or tap water run through reverse osmosis systems to remove copper is equally protective.

Their research and an earlier study by Sparks was funded by a three-year, $390,000 grant from Arizona Disease Control Research Commission. The group announced Monday that it has given Sparks another three-year, $500,000 grant to continue his study, which may include human clinical trials.

Monday's research results got mixed reaction from doctors who treat Alzheimer's patients and water-quality officials.

"It's very premature to jump to those conclusions" that people should drink distilled water, said Will Humble, bureau chief for the state health department's division of epidemiology and disease control. "There's a lot more research that needs to be done."

Dr. Stephen Flitman, an Alzheimer's specialist in Phoenix, also questioned the results, saying advice to drink distilled water exclusively is out of the mainstream.

"We've been through this before with aluminum," he said. "The fact is that we don't have any strong evidence that there's any type of problem with metal" in Alzheimer's disease.

More than 4 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The biggest risk factor is age, with one in 10 people getting the disorder after 65. By the time people hit 85, the risk is one in two. Genetics and cardiovascular disease also are risk factors for developing the complex disease.

Scientists have identified a gene responsible for 40 percent of the cases. The source of the others is unknown.

Dr. Louis Kirby, an Alzheimer's doctor and founder of Pivotal Research Group in Mesa and Sun City, called the results interesting and said any research that sheds light on the disease process is welcome.

"It helps understand the pathology of Alzheimer's disease, whether it's the copper or something else," he said. "It's a piece of the puzzle but it may or may not be important. It's too early to say."

In the meantime, Kirby said he plans to recommend his Alzheimer's patients drink distilled water, although he cautioned the advice "is not scientific" at this point.

So from that article, would I be right in saying that cholestoral reducing diets advocate the substitution of distilled water for tap water, as a preventative for Alzheimers

blondie83

Originally posted by dsimpson
Sure we are all getting slowly poisoned by flouride!!! Why are you surprised that its affecting this chap's health??

Well at least we'll all have healthy teeth! I like tap water the best, bottled water tastes real bland or something. Can't beat the good old flouride taste!

catsup

Originally posted by LoneGunM@n
I used to only drink water from the tap, but my doc put my on a diet to reduce my colestoral [sp?] which only allows bottled water!!

So, I normally buy Ballygowan.

perhaps it was your local ballygowan salesman disguised as your doctor.

LoneGunM@n

Originally posted by catsup
perhaps it was your local ballygowan salesman disguised as your doctor.

never thought of that ... should have been suspicious when he opened up his fridge & had a refreshing drink of Ballygowan