Water

[vinteuil]

Badoit for me, as for anyone with a fussy digestive system and a penchant for too much wine.... it is genuinely different, with a far higher bicarbonates content.

... yes, badoit is really nice; it is our usual lunch time water. Sometimes when we're more than usually fragile we go for Vichy-St-Yorre.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Yorre_(eau_min%C3%A9rale)

But by far my favourite, which we use when having a more expansive than usual meal - is chateldon :

http://www.chateldon.tm.fr/une-eau-d-exception/la-reine-des-eaux.html

« Il est dit que les eaux de Chateldon guériraient quelquefois sa Majesté, la soulageraient souvent et la consoleraient toujours ».

worth seeking out

[Quarky]

Living at the source of the River Colne in Hertfordshire, it might be assumed that tap water is quite drinkable, but unfortunately it has been treated, and has a somewhat bitter taste. Filtering improves it, but half the household opts for bottled water.

On the brink of installing a rainwater collection system, and have a filter arrangement for removing dead leaves. pieces of moss, etc. This is because one half of the household prefers to wash their hair in untreated rainwater (I don't have that problem), and one third of the household, that is Stanley the cat, prefers to drink rainwater, even from a dirty bucket.

[Nick Armstrong]

Stanley the cat, prefers to drink rainwater, even from a dirty bucket.

Could be worse...

[Quarky]

and

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Pennine water is lovely and soft straight from the tap - and the amount they charge me, I'm not paying extra for bottled!

Most Pennine water, from millstone grit areas, is soft and refreshing.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Buxton spring water,from the tap at St Anne's Well,after a long hike,fill yer own bottle for free,nothing better.
The dogs won't touch the stuff though,they prefer to drink from puddles,or the river.

They used to advertise Buxton water as being benificial to health because it was "highly radioactive". They don't make such claims today.

[Bryn]

They used to advertise Buxton water as being benificial to health because it was "highly radioactive". They don't make such claims today.

Mental health warning: this link is to a Daily Ma*l piece.

[Nick Armstrong]

Mental health warning: this link is to a Daily Ma*l piece.

[HighlandDougie]

The water at the Scottish but 'n ben used to come from up the hill and left traces of vegetation if you made ice cubes from it. It also tasted delicious. Nowadays, one couldn't tell where it comes from as it is so heavily chlorinated that the smell puts the tastebuds off even before putting the water in one's mouth. My feeble attempt at a complaint about the level of chlorination was met by a lecture about how I and everyone else nearby would certainly die from e-coli, dead sheep, cholera and heaven knows what else were they to discontinue shovelling mountains of chlorine into it at the water treatment works. In short, the tap water is pretty horrible.

In France, where it comes from up the mountain (about 2,500 metres to be exact), it is soft (an aberration in an otherwise limestone area), unchlorinated, full of some mineral (I suspect iron oxide), no doubt dangerous but tastes good. If it has to be fizzy, TOH likes Vichy St-Yorre (something of an acquired taste) whereas I like Vals (from the Ardeche). But none of them beat the taste of a decent white burgundy .....