Tap water v filtered water

[snowbird]

What to give my lo? Read that it's better to give tap water than filtered water not in fridge as tap water filters out something that keeps it fresh. Filtered water should, apparently, be kept in fridge.

We've been giving LJ tsp water as can't store filtered water in fridge - not enough room! S.o mentioned the damage that limescale causes in another post and said they hated to think what it does to our bodies.

We have very hard water and now I'm concerned...

So what are you all doing? Or what have you read?

[Lolly]

As far as I know the advice for the UK is tap water is fine from 6 months, before that it should be cooled boiled tap water. Our area is soft, but my DH comes from a hard water area and my SILs who live there have never had any different advice.

HTH!

Laura

[amayzie]

we use tap water.. we boil it but i'm not sure that's needed!!

[deb]

We keep a Brita pitcher on the countertop and have done for years. We drink enough as a family, though, that the water doesn't stay in there very long. I hadn't heard about filtered water needing to be refrigerated, so I'm tagging along to learn more. We don't drink cold water anyway; we prefer it cool or room temp.

[nwmm]

Interesting.  Hadn't heard of that.  Want to listen in as well as a result.

We do what Deb does.  I am not a huge fan of plastic--and plastic in the fridge.  I do place Cold filtered water in bottles in the fridge in the summer

Looking at a more $ filtering process, but I guess that is for different thread.   

[babymunkey]

Interested too - we have a water softener, so our drinking water is from either a separate tap on the kitchen sink which is filtered water or from the fridge dispenser, also filtered (nwmm - both are good options to jugs to save money but cost a bit upfront - we put them in when we did our extension)

ATM we are storing filtered, boiled and cooled water in a bottle in the fridge. With DS, we stopped boiling at the same time we stopped sterilising which I think was 12 months.

HTH!

[Seona1973]

You are supposed to keep filtered water in the fridge as the filtering process removes additives (e.g. chlorine) that help keep the water fresh.  We just used tap water from 6 months (we boiled water for formula but not for having as a drink)

[snowbird]

Yes Seona - that's what I read a couple of months ago but not sure where xx

[deb]

Ah, then I won't worry about putting the pitcher in the fridge then. We probably go thru a gallon a day easy in our house, between drinking and cooking water, and it's a half-gallon pitcher, so it won't have time to go really bad before it's gone.

[Lemonthyme]

I'd check how your water filter works as some add sodium I think which would be bad.  I don't think Brita ones do but it's worth checking.  I don't think there's anything wrong with  tap water either.

[deb]

I'm not a fan of all the flouride and stuff they add to our tap water - plus it just tastes nasty.

[Hedgehog17]

DS gets filtered then cooled boiled water to drink (and in his formula) because the water here is so full of limescale it's disgusting 

We don't refrigerate it either, it's taken at room temperature. I'm pretty sure that boiling it will knock out anything that the chlorine removal didn't kill off!