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How is the tap water in where you live?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24972points) 4 weeks ago

From taste to safety?

My tap water is cloudy white, for a minute after pouring, and goes clear and drinkable.

I was told that it is just gasses, and is safe to drink.

How is your tap water?

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Blackwater_Park's avatar

It’s safe but it’s just ok. Run through a three-stage filter it’s pretty good. I miss the well water we had when I lived in Western North Carolina. That water was divine.

Kropotkin's avatar

It’s very good where I live. It’s moderately soft and safe to drink without filtering.

SnipSnip's avatar

We have great tasting fluoride-free water. I still use filters because I can’t stand the smell of chlorine.

filmfann's avatar

My tap water comes from a neighborhood well, and it’s perfect.

flutherother's avatar

Our tap water comes from Loch Katrine and is very pure.

MrGrimm888's avatar

I put it in a filter, before drinking it. AFTER A LIFETIME DRINKING IT AS IT WAS…......

As long as it’s clear, and cold, I don’t care. I’m sure my tap water, is about average…

elbanditoroso's avatar

Not bad. It all comes from Lake Lanier, which is fed by the Chattahoochee River and the Chestatee River in the north Georgia mountains.

The county purifies it and then pumps it out to us. No discernible taste or aftertaste.

seawulf575's avatar

It was sketchy for a while. Chemours polluted the ground water and the PFAS (GenX) was ridiculous and was getting into city water systems. My city just built a huge RO plant for processing the water. RO (Reverse Osmosis) keeps all the crap out of the water that comes out the end of the plant. They did a whole lot of line flushing and chlorinated the hell out of the system for a while, but now it is perfectly fine and tastes like, well, water. No taste. My bigger concern is that there are no minerals in it other than what sloughs off the piping on the way to the tap.

raum's avatar

The tap water in Northern California generally tastes better than the tap water in Southern California.

Beyond that, I don’t have much of a point of reference.

raum's avatar

Three contaminants detected that exceed EWG health guidelines but within legal limit. :/

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

Demosthenes's avatar

It’s Mexico, what do you think? ;) (We have good filtration where we live, and there is worse tap water in the country than here, but I would not drink it straight from the tap).

I do miss the Bay Area Hetch Hetchy tap water. Best tap water in the U.S.

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