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Yorkshire water (at least South Yorkshire where I come from) between Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley is about the softest water in the country, It comes straight off the millstone grit in the Derbyshire Pennines and gets collected in reservoirs like Ladybower. You hardly need any soap as it takes forever to wash the suds off, it arguably makes some of the best beer in the country and a proper cup of tea. When I first migrated south to Portmsouth and got a pint of Brickwoods bitter - I asked the barman to pour another one - it was as flat as a glass of water ...no head on it at all. He poured another one and there was a slight foam on the top and he scraped it off ! Strange what you get used to but I still don't like drinking the tap water here compared to the soft stuff in Sheffield when I go home.