Comments:

Fee Berry, 23 August
I haven't noticed the same sort of prejudice against bottled water in the UK. I think possibly people here recognise that it is considerably more healthy than the sugary drinks which people normally consume in bottles. I am rather shocked by how expensive small portable bottled of water are, compared with 1.5 itre bottles... in my local supermarket a 1.5 litre bottle costs 35p, compared with 75p for a 500 ml bottle.

There are regular programmes on television espousing the high quality of tap water in the UK. While I do believe that is true in many areas, in my area of west London the tapwater has an extremely chlorinated smell and taste, fresh from the tap. My son was told to avoid it as he has Crohn's disease, and so we always buy bottled water for him.