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-   -   TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/australia-54/tapwater-down-under-how-drinkable-388398/)

Clippy Aug 3rd 2006 11:22 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Ransi
Oh yeah I forgot about the parasite problem for a good few months in our water in N.Wales that killed a few..kind of puts you off ;)
:scared: :D

Ya big fairy :D

Ransi Aug 3rd 2006 11:31 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Clippies
:scared: :D

Ya big fairy :D
Dying is not my thing :D

Clippy Aug 3rd 2006 11:39 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Ransi
Dying is not my thing :D
Pah, you Welsh, got no backbone have you.

A little dying never hurt anyone.... :scared:


:D :p

Ransi Aug 3rd 2006 11:47 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Clippies
Pah, you Welsh, got no backbone have you.

A little dying never hurt anyone.... :scared:


:D :p
I could get gutterish here but you English wont take it like a Welshie :D

Clippy Aug 3rd 2006 11:48 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Ransi
I could get gutterish here but you English wont take it like a Welshie :D
:D that's very true, never been good at taking it like a Welshie :D :p

ray2gill Aug 4th 2006 5:04 am
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Clippies
You lived in Wales and didn't drink tap water :confused:

Why?
We lived in Wales - Bridgend. If you take a glass of water to bed with you and try to drink it at 3:00am it tastes like TCP, disgusting. Only drink bottled water now.

Johnsyweb Aug 4th 2006 10:40 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by mackinnon
I hope so, I'm drinking 3 litres of it a day at the moment!
Just because Carlton Draught comes out of a tap, it doesn't make it water ;)

suebrennan Aug 4th 2006 10:45 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Ray51
Up in NW EUroLand where we live now , on maybe 2-3 days a year
( maximum ) it might taste/smell ever-so-slightly slightly over-chlorinated , otherwise it's fine - so using bottled water for drinking/cooking is entirely uncalled for ;
how good is the tapwater , where you live , in Oz ?

Well I have been drinking it for 2.5 weeks now and I am still walking and talking. It is not the nicest taste but I used to filter my water in London and don't think I will have to bother here.

Sue

thribble Aug 4th 2006 11:28 pm
Re: TapWater , Down Under : how drinkable ?
 
Originally Posted by Clippies
Bit of gunge never did anyone any harm :D

Seriously though, isn't bottled water something like 2 years old? There was some report on it recently saying how bad it is for the enviro and that it's old or something
Oh God,here I go again, LOL!

The tap water is safe here, as safe as the UK (you'll always get the odd health scare occassionally). In our flat it tastes vile, so I drink bottled water as we don't have a filter tap, but I use the tap water for squash, cooking etc, bottled is only for drinking pure water.

Bottled water, due to being "mineral water", isn't subject to the same stringent health checks and legislation as tap water. Which means that tap water is safer. However, the chemicals used to make it safer sometimes make it taste, well, less good! The main reason bottled water is bad for the environment is all those bottles - landfills full of small plastic bottles, streets littered with them, and don't get me started on what the side of the roads in the Australian outback look like!

And yes, beer is 95% water!


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