What does your water contain?

Lol... Indeed Brue! 

...just don't distill that,  can't imagine what a stinky mess that would leave behind!  👍

Not sure if my memory serves me right but my 6th form chemistry seems to tell me that fluorine is both odourless and tasteless! Maybe the scientists amongst us can put me right!

I guess it depends if you are referring to fluorine (the chemical element) or one of the many compounds?

Elemental fluorine is an extremely reactive diatomic gas and the most electronegative halogen. At room conditions it is a pungent pale yellow gas.

But it is highly toxic, I'm not sure many will have tasted it and lived to tell the tale!     

It forms a myriad of compounds as it will react with almost all other elements to form both organic and inorganic compounds.

Many naturally occurring rock crystals contain fluorine (I think it is possibly one of the top 10 elements on earth?).

It is used in steel making, oil refining (HF, very nasty, eats all the calcium out of your bones if you get it on you), refrigeration, non stick pans (Teflon / PTFE), water fluoridation to help prevent cavities in kids teeth to name but a few.

Fluoride is somewhat of a generic term, in terms of water fluoridation I believe it is typically fluorosilicic acid, which at the concentrations it is added to water in , is generally considered odourless and tasteless (got there in the end!)      

Tap water may be fine if you can tolerate it.  I for one, and I know I am not alone, cannot tolerate it and will continue to distill.

Nothing wrong with that qashqai,  I filter myself for the same reason. 

Wouldn't personally distill,  especially with my kids as they don't need minerals leaching from growing bones and teeth,  but tap water don't taste great,  that's for sure! 👍

Our tap water tastes fine to me, nice and cold and clear why shouldn't I drink it. I filter water when away from home because in certain places its very hard and doesn't taste good. Kettle doesn't like it either, would never have thought about drinking distilled.

Exactly Tammygirl, well said!

I think it depends on where in the UK you are,we will drink cold water strait from the tap here, but when making hot drinks we use bottled water , as the water from the taps  comes from chalk aquifiers and is very hard ,one boiled kettle full from the tap will leave  white scale in the kettle,and brown stains in the cup and makes at times tea have a strange taste,

We are staying on our favourite CL about 8 miles south of Dumfries, and the water is from mains supply but even after filtering, it tastes and smells like someone has added Sheep-dip, always has. We certainly do not have this problem at home where the water is hard but tasteless, just like water really!!! 

(I was going to put, just like, well water really! but that would have meant something entirely different!!) 

I think there is an element of what you grew up with too.

The water here is ok-ish,  but does not taste as good as at my mum and dads house,  but my wife,  from the opposite side of the country thinks they both taste bad compared to her parents house.... who's water I think is mingin! 😂