How long?

Can anyone tell me how long you can keep bottled water for unopened?

Re: How long?

Should have a use by date on it but I'll admit we forgot some we kept in a campervan only finding it well over a year out of date and it was fine no one got ill and it tasted ok too.

Re: How long?

It rather depends IMO on how thirsty you are .
Personaly I think that bottled water is one of the biggest rip offs of our time .
However there are times it is useful.
Last night I watched the disgsusting spectacle of Bear Grils peeing into a snake skin and later drinking it in one of his totally unnecessary trips accross a desert .
I wish he had had some bottled water .

Re: How long?

it's not so much the water but the bottle it's in. Modern water bottles are designed to degrade which means that the plastics are slowly making their way into the water. We normally buy a couple of bottles of water then continue to fill them with tap water and keep them in the fridge but after a while we can taste the plastic.

Re: How long?

I keep water in a bottle in the fridged but use one made of glass

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I wouldn't risk drinking bottled water after the sell by date unless I was desperate!
It may well be alright but why take the risk? It's not expensive to replace!

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Like a mug I used to buy the cheap bottled water from Tescos which turned out to be tap water anyway.

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How Long is a China man and he wouldn't even consider buying water in a bottle.

Re: How long?

Who believes Sell By Date ? Marketing con to buy more. I keep a small glass bottle of tap water in the fridge too. Not plastics laminated ones.

Re: How long?

I would drink it if it was in date and kept in a fridge. There was a warning about drinking bottled water that had been in a warm place not long ago.