drinking water in england,ireland and scotland

It's good....no matter talking about safety or taste!!

Ask Obama! He will be drinking it soon!
Roger

He wouldn't know...he's been drinking nothing but Guinness all day long. First, we have to worry about the rapture and place all of our traveling plans on hold. Next, we have more volcanic ash from Iceland threatening to bring our plane down. Now, we have to worry about drinking the deadly waters of Britain and Ireland. What's next?!? At least we survived Armageddon on Saturday!

In comparision to ???

Are you asking how good it is in terms of taste, or do you mean to ask if it's safe to drink from the tap? Tap water is safe anywhere in the west...you only need to be concerned if traveling to remote stretches in the Balkans or some parts of the former USSR.

Do you mean taste or safety? Safety is fine, had no problem with taste either.

I have found the water in Scotland to be especially good. London's is typical "big city on a river". Other parts of England and Wales, very good. Can't speak to Ireland. There is also excellent bottled water (still and sparkling, plain and flavored) available.

Safe.
Taste varies throughout uk. Hard water and soft water areas. Also, the hard water on London tastes terrible to me. Soft water better for tea, drinking, kinder to kettles, better washing hair, ...

How do you mean, "good"? Safe? Taste? Helps little old ladies across the road? I drink it every day. Not Irish or Scottish. The Irish turn it into Guinness and the Scots turn it into Whiskey. The English turn it into real ales and beers. Haven't died yet. Every water company has a different source and different sources have different rocks so the water tastes a little different. How "good" is the water in Brooklyn Park? A 2008 report on the web said you have barium from discharge of drilling wastes and discharge from metal refineries and flouride in yours. You're unlikely to find much of either in most of England.

We were once fortunate to stay at a B&B near New Ross in Ireland where the husband was in business drilling wells. They had an artesian spring on their home property, and they let us fill up every available water bottle we had with us with the most delicious water I have ever had. I would never worry about water in Ireland and the UK.

Nigel, The Scots make WHISKY - Americans and Japanese make WHISKEY. You could get flayed alive for that mistake, north of the border.
Roger

And a little fluoride in the water isn't necessarily a bad thing. Americans have a few faults to be sure, but bad teeth doesn't typically make the list. :)

Water quality seems to be a running theme recently. I think we have had a question regrading Rome, Spain and now the British Isles in three weeks.

In Britain only the Irish would turn water into whiskey. In Scotland as Roger points out it is spelt Whisky without the 'e'. An easy way of knowing if you're drinking Irish or Scottish.