Water Filter And Refills…. Which To Buy?

[smurfchops]

Which I have been looking Brita, as I had one in the past.  So many different ones and different replacement filters.  There are other makes on Amazon.  Which would you recommend, and which filters go with them?  Bit confusing, like everything these days. Thanks all.

[Buenchico]

Possibly useful (althouh I'd never bother with any of them!):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/recommended/home/kitchen/best-water-filter-jug-tested-experts/

[Atheist]

Why filter your tapwater? Perhaps you find the raw taste unpleasant, but I don't notice things like that.

[smurfchops]

Ok is tap water safe to drink?? Doesn't it have chemicals etc in ?  Is glass bottled water better?  I can't decide!!  

[Atheist]

Tap water is arguably safer than bottled water. Mind you, when did you last hear of tap water poisoning, or bottled water poisoning?

[Atheist]

And glass bottled water is not common; most of it is in plastic bottles. I enjoy bottled water which is fizzy and pleasant to taste, but only when I am in France, where it costs tuppence-ha'penny a gallon (if you avoid the designer brands). I repeat, have you ever known a mate who has been made ill by drinking tap water?

[johnny.5]

Hi Smurfy

yes UK. tap water is safe to drink

yes UK. tap water does contain chemicals ( different chemicals depending where you live)

and most tea and coffee in the UK tastes better when made tap water as that is what the manufacturers use for their taste tests

 

 

[Canary42]

If tapwater is so safe, why has Altzheimers/dementia increased since they started putting fluoride in it.

[ToraToraTora]

canary here's one you may have missed:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History/Question1891117.html

 

[Buenchico]

>>> "If tapwater is so safe, why has Altzheimers/dementia increased since they started putting fluoride in it".

There have been very few, if any, studies which show a correlation between fluoride levels and the incidence of Alzheimer's Disease.  Indeed, Kelley and Still's 1980 study, 'On the incidence of primary degenerative dementia vs. water fluoride content in South Carolina', found that the counties in South Carolina that had the highest levels of fluoride in their water actually had the lowest levels of dementia in their populations.

[johnny.5]

"If tapwater is so safe, why has Altzheimers/dementia increased since they started putting fluoride in it."

maybe because these are age related problems and people are living longer ?

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[ladybirder]

I have a large glass bottle with a metal screw top which had orange squash in it when I bought it.  I now keep it in the fridge filled with tap water and try to make sure I drink at least one bottle a day.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/311671109?srsltid=AfmBOop0x2VPH4vdqHBvvWEAtCI5NA3OQBWM4nRCg2ekc4L8oO0Bw598

 

[theshedman]

We use a Brita filter jug for ours but have been known to put different makes of filter in and not noticed the difference.  Where we live in the South West drinking tapwater is not nice, it doesn't taste nice at all.  If we use tapwater in the kettle it gets full of limescale within a couple of weeks and knackers the kettles fairly quickly.

[Atheist]

But hard water is reputedly healthier that soft water.

[Atheist]

I think you should follow your taste buds. All tap and bottled water is safe.