@MysteriousBob: At my parents place I have to use filtered because the water comes from the lake in their front yard. It's still not the cleanest stuff you'll drink. As a child growing up in the suburbs there were 2 athletic 18 year old guys drop dead from heart failure about 7 or 8 years appart. Turns out our town had abnormally high levels of arsenic in the water. Since they were athletic they drank more water and got more arsenic. I'll stick with filtered water.
Tap water for me. I have some friends who only drink bottled water and that is just a crazy waste of money. Anyone watch that documentary on the bottled water industry? Can't remember the name of it but you can find it on netflix.
Actually I do, but filtered. Anyone who drinks lot's of water should check out water bobble bottles, these are amazing. And before you ask. No I don't get money for this message :p
The only time I hated the tap water and tried not to have to drink it was at my dorm first year of college. The water from the fountain down the hall had the weirdest taste and also smelled.
Tap water quality varies by area. People also have preferences for different water based on what they are used to. That said, I can barely drink any SoCal water out of the tap. I even had my 2 year old throw a sippy cup of SoCal water out of the crib and tell me it tastes bad.
when i grew up in LA the water was bad, so i have to filter it.
I now live in SF and the water is great, i enjoy the tap water
When i go to India i can only drink bottled water (and before the concept of bottle water i had to boil water and bottle it up) because if you don't live there your immune system can't handle the water there.
I've got well water at my house, so yeah. It's clean. Bottled water tastes like assplastic to me.
If you have a septic tank, I bet it isn't.
The weep field for a septic tank is usually only about 3-6 feet under ground, if that. That's where your sewage leaks out of the septic system and weeps into the soil. The problem is that most wells are many feet deeper than septic systems, some a few hundred feet deeper. You can see where this is going.
Nah, I live on Long Island, NY and while we have some pretty good tasting tap water we also have a high rate of breast cancer in the region which is thought to be linked to the chemical plants and factories we used to have in the area. I don't know if its linked to the water but ever since being told that at a young age i avoided tap water when possible.
yes, i drink the tap water. it's how we get our mixed drinks in, like lemonade and iced tea. some people tell me that they can tell the difference if it's tap or not.
can anyone here taste the difference between tap and other water?
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