Peckham water..... well nearly !

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I,ve been buying this stuff from Tesco's for a few months now apart from appearing cheap, I liked it because it didn't leave a dry taste as bottled water normally does. Now I know why.

Nowhere on the bottle does it say it's tap water but doesn't say it's spring water either. Not only are Tesco's and ASDA ripping people off but think of all the water taken from the reservoirs during drought restrictions. How many litres would they need to stock all their branches across the UK?

They were still selling the stuff at Tesco's this morning. I just filled my bottle up from the tap and put it in the fridge.
 
Has it never occurred to anyone that to sell water for drinking it has to be purified. Just like your tap water is purified before being pumped into your homes.
Do people think that bottled water is taken direct from the stream/river without being treated? Its all tap water FFS!
If you drink a glass of water in Liverpool, (which actually comes from Wales), and you drink a glass in Leeds and then you drink a glass in Bath then all 3 glasses will taste different. They will be, (or should be), as pure as each other but the taste will differ because of the geological differences in the areas the water is collected from.
Its just the same with bottled stuff. Buxton will taste different from say Volvic, which in turn will taste different from something from the Highlands of Scotland.
Its water, plain and simple.
 
the stuff i drink tastes pretty salty :( i dont think its purified at all.
 
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i personally think it quite strange that people will pay around £10 for water that from the tap costs about 3-10p dependant on type and local costs

the standard is very similar as is the quality and health values
and before anybody thinks i am exaggerating 10p will buy me around 55 litres of tap water:cool:
 
When I walked in to Tesco the newspapers were blasting out about Tesco bottled tap water. Very funny.

Squeaky suggested putting water in the fridge. This I do in a plastic bottle and it really sweetens it up nicely.
 
Lovely jubbly !


That tescos and asda water glows in the dark !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Didn't Coca Cola do something similar a year or two back - but sold it as a premium product?

Problem isn't with the stores, it's the fools who buy it.
 
Don't see the problem.

Bottled water that is not spring/mineral water has been around for years.

The tap water in my area is very chalky tasting, my parents buy the cheap stuff as it tastes nicer than tap water.

I put up with it, living in a flat it's just another thing to lug up the stairs.


Didn't Coca Cola do something similar a year or two back - but sold it as a premium product?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm

"Something had gone wrong at the Dasani factory and a bad batch of minerals had contaminated the water production with a potentially carcinogenic bromate. Coke admitted defeat. Immediately they withdrew all 500,000 bottles of Dasani in circulation"
 
securespark";p="2488518 said:
The regs around waters:

http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/mineralwater2006gn.pdf

Those regulations only apply to bottled water. Because it's in a bottle, it is classified as food and comes under the food Act.
On the other hand, the water that comes from your tap is covered by The Drinking Water Regulations, I think it's 1988 for England and Wales and 1990 for Scotland. It's the same act, we adopted your regs.
So, bottled water isn't classified as drinking water and, you shouldn't see drinking water written on the bottle.
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