My tap water acquires a mouldy taint from sitting around in the kitchen tap system - this will be altered as soon as I have some money released by house sale. I am assuming that it comes from the chalk aquifer as it is full of carbonate - I like carbonate rich water, having grown up on it.

I don't know if any of our Kent or Essex members know about the source on the NK marshes by the bird sanctuary near the Isle of Harty end of Sheppey - can't be clearer at the moment. I was down there with a friend who was off photographing frogs when I spotted someone with a car filling up bottles from a pipe which was gushing into a concrete tank. I asked if it was drinking water, and was told, in a French accent, that it was, because it came from Essex. (For our US members, this implies it had been piped under the Thames Estuary for a few miles.) I filled a few bottles, and it was a pleasant water, though I doubt the Essex origin. Anyone know anything about this? (I wonder if she meant it was from an aquifer running under the estuary and was an artesian well, which would make geological sense, though not necessarily economic sense.) If I had real information about this, it would be worth the occasional trip to stock up.

Penny