"Sense, taste and smell and vision and hearing have a normal range, but there can be a hundred-fold between the ability of people to discern a taste or odour - it's not uncommon," says Dietrich. There is a minimum dosage requirement, but extra might be added at source because chlorine declines over a distance. Thai government has 'back against the wall', Thunberg's 'surreal' adventure told on big screen, YouTube bans misleading Covid-19 vaccine videos, Glitter litter 'could be damaging rivers', US Covid vaccine trial paused due to ill volunteer, Man gets Covid twice with second hit 'more severe', Carmakers compete to keep you entertained, Hidden camera's hugging tiger wins top photo award, NHS frontline staff featured in photo awards, Africa's top shots: Robes, reeds and dates. "Taste" is often confused with "flavour". A premiere date on BBC Two hasn't yet been announced. Most tap water tends to come from two main sources - surface water from lakes, streams and rivers, and groundwater. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook. "We have found at our tastings over the years that people have fond memories of water. When people talk about the taste of tap water, she says, they are not being quite accurate. Last Tango in Halifax: Series 5 Trailer | BBC Trailers - YouTube I have heard people waxing on about the 'pure' tasting water from grandma's well.". Given that odours can cue recall of a memory - an "earthy" flavour might evoke the joys of the hills and valleys to one person, but an unpleasant damp-in-the-basement experience to another. "People are most likely to kick off about the taste of water if they live near a treatment plant," says Younger. "Like any food and beverage, we bring our personal sensitivities to tasting water, and this can be to do with genetics, age and experience," says Dr Andrea Dietrich, professor of civil and environmental engineering and a water tasting expert at Virginia Tech in the US. Soft water is thought to have less of a "taste" than hard. The reason why tap water tastes different is a heady mix of geography, science and subjectivity. These blind tasting competitions are yet to take off in the UK, but many would stick up for their tap water as the best. And, some people are more highly tuned when it comes to the senses. Four basic taste sensations are recognised by our taste buds - bitterness, sourness, sweetness and saltiness. "It almost doesn't matter how it tastes, it's more about what the individual is used to," he says. 'They didn't intend their language to be... 'They didn't intend their language to be hurtful'. Naturally occurring organic compounds, such as humic acid, sometimes react with chlorine and can create an antiseptic or astringent taste. There is, however, an objectively bad-tasting water," he says. So most water, she says, will contain certain ions, such as calcium and magnesium, even if it's just a trace amount. Generally, he says, low chlorination - or an absence of chlorine and a low level of minerals - is preferable. At a blind water tasting held by The San Francisco Chronicle in 1980, a highly mineralised, non-carbonated French bottled water was hidden among the tap water. He reckons that we form subconscious memories of water.
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