We drink bottled water, shop around, site water is good enough for cooking,
but sometimes has a"twang" to it that affects tea

Never bought a bottle of water in my life .................doubt I ever will

Zitat

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Either a bottle of water or a bottle of wine. Hmm difficult choice.

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Liar

On a big hash few years back when I was MC and buying 3 pints for Carole, me and a pal + about 7 pints + two cokes across the bar for the ceremonies, I asked for a glass of water. The landlord told me he doesn't do free drinks and would I like still or fizzy.

I told him just tap water as the lady in question is tee total and also a bit under the weather. He repeated his words, so there was quite an argument. My pal who was helping carry the large and expensive round stormed out with me, did the ceremony and we haven't been back since. He lost out that night on 60+ people not buying any more as we all went to another pub down the road and they benefitted.

Monday nights are usually quiet in pubs and they welcomed us. I usually have 4/5 pints on Monday as do a lot of the hash crowd.

BTW I wasn't paying for the ceremonial drinks, the hash kitty does that.

Brian's survey is on the nose, if we talk specifically about UK water. If we narrow Roger's question down to choosing between bottled and tap water on the European mainland, though, and more specifically doing so as travellers, then bottled water starts to make sense. Our digestive systems take in millions of water-borne bugs - bacteria, shrimps etc. - every day, chlorine notwithstanding, and these are "dealt with" so that we don't notice them. We've built up a local familiarity with them so that they do us very little harm. It's only when we drink water containing these same bugs but from a different, "unfamiliar" locality that our guts react in protest. So whether it's Evian in Europe or Bisleri in Bombay, it makes sense (to me at any rate) to play safe.

Never bought a bottle of water in my life .................doubt I ever will

You would in some of the places I've been to or you would come back in a box
Dave

I always drink tap water or even water from the well can be a bit brackish but whhen you've drunk water in many different countries I'm glad to drink "our" water, whatever the source, some of these 3rd world countries drink far worse than we do and it shows. We used to specialise in water supply to schools and villages in these countries, and would set up filtration tanks and supply tanks, they used dirty buckets to collect clean drinkable water in?

It was also illegal for him to refuse any water I believe

Hi Rodger I like to drink tap water ,my dad would think me mad to buy water it comes from taps corporation pop he called it.
Keith

First time i went to france as a young lad, my biggest culture shock was, why would any one buy water from a shop !

I can't comment regarding Eribering abroad however I am more than happy to drink tap water from UK sites. My water containers and pipes are rinsed out with a weak milton solution after every trip.
I treat my bathroom 12L container with the same attention as my sink container so that I can also use that water for drinking as well in an emergency.......