Only if I have an attack of the gasp when out and about, I wouldn’t buy it to replace tap water or anything…

I occasionally buy sparkling water – Dublin taps still haven’t perfected the fizz.

I heard an eminent psychiatrist on Newstalk’s “The right hook” the other day. He was advocating putting Lithium into the water supply, to lower suicide rates and make people more stable in this country. If this happens I will probably look at an alternative water supply.

Only time I buy bottled water is when flying. Thanks to that liquids ban, I can’t do my usual thing of bringing my own filtered tap water. I suspect there’s not a lot of difference in quality between filtered tap water and bottled water. But 2 things I do know – it’s a lot cheaper to filter water than buy it by the bottle, and all those plastic bottles aren’t good for the planet!

I’m selling cans of air if anyone is interested?

We live in a developed country – our tap water (I know, I know Ireland has had some troubles with proper drinking water over the last couple of years) is for the most part perfectly acceptable drinking water. We are being marketed and sold and are now accepting the idea that we need to PAY for water like it some sort of designer accessory. Do we not have better things to spend our money on??

That being said… Ireland has a terrible lack of amenities for things like accessing “free” water – where are the drinking fountains? (and where are the public toilets?) Some times if you’ve forgotten to bring your own there is literally no choice but to buy a bottle of water.

If you were out on the road for the day and had forgotten to bring filtered water from home, which would it be wiser to spend money on and drink?

A) A bottle of water
B) A bottle of isotonic, flavoured water
C) A bottle of cola

Clearly the best one to buy, for your own health, is the bottle of water.

Bottled water is more expensive than petrol.
Need I say more.

Ive lived in south Dublin my whole life and the tap water has been completely fine, cant speak for the rest of the county or country though.

Buy a bottle that’s a convenient size for my shoulder bag. Refill from the filtered water fountain at work, or the water filter jug at home, and replace the bottle every 2-3 months.

Evian is Naive spelt backwards… Bottled water is the industry’s biggest scam.

we buy at least eight bottles 2lt of water a week, living in Kildare and the water is pure limescale. if I drink a pint of tap before bed my mouth is very dry and chalky, Kildare have taken samples to check still waiting for results, I asked about grants for proper filters, none available yet.

The tap water is good quality where I live and I just filter it to improve it!!

Cannot drink tap water because of the smell of bleach from it. My dog prefers to drink water from a puddle rather than from her bowl which is filled from the tap, that says enough for me.

Google water bobble and get one of those.

I live in Glanmire in Cork and our water is lovely. However a friend of mine up in The Glen said since the flooding a dew years ago their water has never been the same her 2 boys were forever getting sick after drinking water. she was drinking so much bottled water it was economically viable for her to get a cooler from Rockwell.

Do people not realise that bottled water mostly comes from the same source as tap water? If you have a problem with lime scale buy and install a softener – they pay for themselves quite rapidly by reducing the damage to washing machines, dish-washers, kettles, irons, immersion heaters never mind the saving on bottled water.
I understood people in this country were hard pressed financially. Yet they are apparently happy to buy bottled water! The mind boggles.

The so-called “fresh” water that comes out of my cold tap smells worse than a wrestler’s armpits! I would be throwing-up before I could be swallowing it if that was all I had to drink. Of course we buy bottled water to drink!

I only drink bottled water for the five months now as have had numerous health problems for the past 6 years and have finally been diagnosed as suffering from fluoride toxicity. Spent a fortune on Doctors, Specialists,alternative healthcare and numerous supplements over the years trying to find out why I was suffering from immune system collapse leaving me with numerous food allergies, joint pain, nerve damage and severe gastro problems. I will take the risk of a bout of e.coli any day over what I have experienced. At €1.25 for a 5 litre bottle, it is affordable, and for me money well spent!

Sandra are you saying that all our drinking water is safe,where i live in Dublin the water is fine and i have no need to buy bottled water,but i have travelled around Ireland a lot over the last few years and what iv seen comeing out of some of the taps around the country is foul there is no way you could drink it people who have, ended up very sick.Most of the water pumped into people,s homes in the midlands comes from the big lakes whice are full of polluation from the crap farmers spray on there crops and then when it rains it gets washed into the lakes and then pumped into peoples homes.

We have to buy 10 or so litres of bottled water, as my partner cannot stomach our water here…strange but true!!!

Surely the real question should be why does the Food Safety Authority continue to allow unsafe bottled water to be sold? Or at the very least not have a hygiene rating for each brand?

http://www.waterbobble.com/
The bobble is the best thing since britta filters, it’s a filter on a reusable bottle so you can fill it up from your tap and filter while you drink. They’re available in Stock behind Stephen’s Green SC and lots of gyms and homeware stores have them too.

No choice really because our tap water, while it may be “safe to drink”, has such a strong foul chloriney smell it’s undrinkable. It also makes your feet and hands itch if you stay in the bath more than 10 minutes. Presumably it’s whatever the council put in it to kill the bugs: good for washing clothes though…

Have no choice but buy bottled water as the tapwater where I leave is undrinkable!! Can have a brown colour from time to time…and limescale !!!! Have to descale my kettle everyday!!! Wont have my children drinking this “poison”!!!

I do buy bottled water but I also have a filtered jug at home and refill my bottles too :)

our water coming out of our taps tastes foul. i am not sure why exactly (dread to think it could have anything to do with the sewerage works a few doors down :) ) and is often cloudy or worse. it is just not drinkable. so bottled water here. i am not adverse to drinking tap water if i know it is ok. i just will never drink ours

I bought a reverse osmosis filter because you cant drink the water here in Ireland due to the levels of hexafluorosilic acid, arsenic, lead, nickel and other heavy metals.

did the food safety authority test tap water and its 300 different chemicals including flouride, a toxic substance made from aluminium

No plastic bottles, filtered from home, and if forgotten, plain tap water.

Our tap water thankfully doesn’t smell but I still filter it in a jug which we keep topped up in the fridge. It’s drinkable without as far as I can tell but I just filter to be on the safe side

I buy bottled water. I also buy most of my other beverages too in bottles, except maybe orange juice and milk which I get in a carton.

jesus. so many of you have water issues and you are now going to be charged a tax for the privilege of smelly armpit water! I buy water when I need to. love drinking water out of a glass bottle. it seems to always taste better…

The problems of the developed world are making life unbearable. How very middle class to turn your nose up at clean and safe drinkable water.

yrogella enanI

Again, I ask those who thumb down or disagree with a comment to voice their opinion so we get everyone’s view point. Someone stating their water is so heavily chlorinated that its undrinkable deserves a reason for thumbs down.
I’d seriously like to know what you found an issue with in that statement. Honestly I would.

I only like sparkling one so i buy the one at lidl very cheap and great to mix with juice….. i would never touch tap water u never know and anyway i HATE still water..feel like a sheep…lol

Wow, I would not care to be neighbours of ya in a thrid world country!