Aarke (make your own sparkling water)

Homemade sparkling water obviously works out cheaper long-term, if you prefer it to still. You just have to buy a machine to carbonate the water.

Aarke costs around £200 but after that you only have to buy refill CO2 cylinders and pay your tap water bill, far cheaper than endless bottles of sparkling water, and no packaging. One cylinder will fill the included bottle around 60 times.

To use, just fill your bottle to the fill line with fresh clean water, attach to the machine, push the lever and hold until you hear a buzz. Then release and unscrew the bottle and voila, a bottle of fizzy water!

Carbon 8 is a one-touch countertop water carbonator, which removes chlorine and adds mineral. Purified UV light, just make your own fizzy water, then infuse with a sprig of mint or slices of cucumber or strawberry.

Never give sparkling water to to pets, it could cause bloat.

How much water should we drink?

The average adult needs around 1.2 litres per day (more in hot weather or after vomiting or diarrhoea). That’s around six 200ml glasses. So drink two glasses when you wake up, have two more before lunch, and two more before dinner. Add more per glass of wine or beer, or per tea, coffee or cola.

Wash and rinse pet bowls daily. Avoid fizzy water or guzzling water after runs or car trips (to prevent bloat). Don’t let pets drink from puddles (due to bacteria, oil, antifreeze). For outdoor pets, ensure drip-feed bottles are not blocked or frozen.

Some people prefer plain still water. But many people won’t drink water unless it’s fizzy! So it’s far better to choose good brands, rather than sweet sickly drinks with fake flavours and artificial sweeteners.

In fact, sparkling waters now out-sell cola. Accidentally invented in a brewery in 1676, the first fizzy waters used the basic basic system of attaching a soda siphon to a gas canister. Nothing much has changed!

All drinks have zero sweeteners and calories, so a nice refreshing way to hydrate, instead of sugary sodas or artificially sweetened drinks.