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Post by BSnyder on Jul 4, 2024 19:03:29 GMT
Yes, we do. Not too far away from you around Columbia, MD. We are big water drinkers so a Brita pitcher would not work for us nor would a filter on our faucet. We are not to the point of taking on the expense of putting in a basement system. Filling water bottles (32 oz x 2/day for just me) and such from bottles of spring water would just be environmentally wasteful and cost a ridiculous amount of money.
I am grateful that I have never really had to consider the safety of our drinking water, but in December 2023 we received a warning that low levels of the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium may be present. That started the conversations on message boards and on Facebook from the Chicken Littles about water contamination, government, immigrants, terrorists, blah, blah, blah. Many of these are the same people that rail against EPA regulations and water protection programs.
All of that to say, we followed recommended protocols and continue to drink tap water.
ETA: Where I grew up, we had well water. It was contaminated by runoff from all the farms nearby. That waster was not safe to drink. My parents had to have a system with high heat and UV light to decontaminate that water, then it was filtered through a number of systems before it came into the house for use.
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Post by melanell on Jul 4, 2024 20:21:10 GMT
We do filter it, mostly for taste. It's quite heavy on the chlorine.
We both grew up here drinking the tap water all of the time, and it's perfectly safe to drink it now, as well.
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valincal
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Post by valincal on Jul 4, 2024 20:28:12 GMT
Outside of the huge water main break that we recently experienced and the water restrictions and some area boil water advisories, Calgary has excellent drinking water and I don't hesitate to drink tap water. I think our water tastes great, especially in the winter when it is ice cold out of the tap! 😄 |
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Post by gracieplusthree on Jul 4, 2024 20:38:03 GMT
We have well water where I live(and it's a spring fed well). But I drink city water at other places and ours is really pretty awful too me, but Ive certainly had worse so I guess it's ok.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Jul 4, 2024 22:14:48 GMT
We have fantastic water so there is no need for filtering. There’s even an artesian well not too far from me - several towns over but worth the drive. It’s a fun and free way to fill our 5gal bottles for the drink dispenser, and the kids always loved going there. One of the local water companies maintains it.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 4, 2024 22:48:31 GMT
Speaking of tap water...
Our tap water is just fine and we all drink it. However one day step son was here and wanted a drink. I was using the kitchen water for? so I said, just get some water in the bathroom. He was appalled and refused. "I don't drink bathroom water!" My logic is: water in bathroom is same as water in kitchen and I would fill a glass from either place.
Anyone else outraged at suggestion to drink water from bathroom faucet?
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Post by Lexica on Jul 4, 2024 23:57:36 GMT
I posted this a couple of days ago on the thread about fixing your coffee the night before. In California we were given water that had come from sinks and toilets, was then super cleaned and sent up into the hills to trickle back down again to be sent back into the main drinking water supply.
When I originally heard this, I thought it had to be some sick joke. But it wasn’t. Colorado does this too. I know they claim the water is 100% safe to drink, but I couldn’t get past the grossness aspect. I bought a large Brita container for the refrigerator and two smaller portable ones. I only drank cold water anyway so all drinking water was taken from the refrigerator Brita.
When I needed water for cooking, or to fill the coffee reservoir, I used the small container and filled it multiple times. I kept the second Brita upstairs to make water for brushing our teeth and filling the cat fountains. The fountains had their own filters already, so the pets got doubly filtered water. I changed out the filter as soon as the cleaned water smelled weird it began to taste funny. Straight from the tap, it had a weird chemical smell.
Upon moving to Oregon, I noticed the water here didn’t smell funny. I tasted it and it tasted great and doesn’t smell odd. But after years of cleaning my water, old habits are hard to change. I am still doing it. I figured it couldn’t hurt to clean it, even if it started out much cleaner than the California water. And I still only drink cold water, so the big rectangle container still sits in the refrigerator as it always did. I will just not have to change the filters here quite as often.
I remember my mom having to boil our water a few times as we were growing up, but I can’t remember her telling us what had happened to it. We never had a Brita back then, and I don’t know if they were even invented yet. Mom just transferred the boiled water to a pitcher that she labeled with a piece of tape and it was kept in the fridge. There was always a huge pot still on the stove cooling down after being boiled and we would transfer that to the fridge container after it had cooled down to room temp. I remember. Asking Mom if I was drinking dead cooties when drinking the fridge water and I would hold the glass up looking for floating evidence.
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Post by milocat on Jul 5, 2024 1:58:04 GMT
I used to. Then it got kinda wierd, our vilalge also had a lot of water issues which we are now being looked after by qualified comoany from the city.
Most people have a water cooler and buy 18.9 litre (is that 5 gallons?) jugs of water. When DD worked at the grocery store she packed a lot of water jugs and did delivery on many also.
Whenever we go to Jasper National Park I think the water tastes like it's melted from a glacier.
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Post by sawwhet on Jul 5, 2024 1:59:29 GMT
Absolutely! Ours is from Lake Ontario and it tastes fine.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Jul 5, 2024 3:26:16 GMT
It has been many many years since I drank tap water. I have a bunch of 3 gallon water bottles and 2 dispensers at my house. The two of us and our 3 dogs all drink the filtered water. I also have to cook with it because it is so hard that it will ruin cooking your vegetables, and well anything. In this area, the well water is very hard and tastes terrible and the sink filter didn't help much. And the town next to us, their city water has so much chlorine and junk on top of being very hard and bad tasting. Not to mention with all the fires and flooding in the last 18 days that they go back and forth about boiling the water first.
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Post by craftedbys on Jul 5, 2024 3:49:50 GMT
Memphis has always been known for its great tasting water, growing up here I seem to recall them having awards for beat tasting water, not sure if if was self proclaimed or actually bestowed by some official entity.
We always packed gallons of water whenever we went to the lake house to use for drinking because it was the days before bottled water.
Even now, whenever we take a car trip, we carry Memphis water in our water bottles and tumblers.
One year, when DD was working at camp, I was going up there to drop her off and a friend of ours asked me to take a few gallons of local water to her son at camp because the well water was nasty. Found out later thata he kept some and sold the rest, LOL.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 5, 2024 4:01:16 GMT
I have always been fine with tap water where my parents or I live, but have recently been in some other parts of the country where the water smelled and tasted gross. I don't know if I just needed to get used to it or if it really was bad. But I think there I might have needed to get a filter or something.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 5, 2024 13:23:21 GMT
Yes, we do. Not too far away from you around Columbia, MD. We are big water drinkers so a Brita pitcher would not work for us nor would a filter on our faucet. We are not to the point of taking on the expense of putting in a basement system. Filling water bottles and such from bottles of spring water would just be environmentally wasteful and cost a ridiculous amount of money.I am grateful that I have never really had to consider the safety of our drinking water, but in December 2023 we received a warning that low levels of the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium may be present. That started the conversations on message boards and on Facebook from the Chicken Littles about water contamination, government, immigrants, terrorists, blah, blah, blah. Many of these are the same people that rail against EPA regulations and water protection programs. All of that to say, we followed recommended protocols and continue to drink tap water. ETA: Where I grew up, we had well water. It was contaminated by runoff from all the farms nearby. That waster was not safe to drink. My parents had to have a system with high heat and UV light to decontaminate that water, then it was filtered through a number of systems before it came into the house for use. This is exactly what we do. We get 3-4 five gallon jugs for our home water cooler and I think the total ends up being about $20-25 a month. We fill our water bottles out of those jugs every day, all day. The guy comes and picks up the empties when he drops off the full bottles once a month, so the bottle deposit ends up being a wash. We live in an area that IMO isn’t far enough away from a decades old chemical dump site and even though they say our well water tests safe to drink, I’m not taking that chance. No amount of filtering will remove the forever chemicals that were dumped decades ago, so quite a few homes in my general area were switched over to city water several years ago. For me the expense is worth the peace of mind. |
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Post by BSnyder on Jul 5, 2024 15:17:57 GMT
Yes, we do. Not too far away from you around Columbia, MD. We are big water drinkers so a Brita pitcher would not work for us nor would a filter on our faucet. We are not to the point of taking on the expense of putting in a basement system. Filling water bottles (32 oz x 2/day) and such from bottles of spring water would just be environmentally wasteful and cost a ridiculous amount of money.I am grateful that I have never really had to consider the safety of our drinking water, but in December 2023 we received a warning that low levels of the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium may be present. That started the conversations on message boards and on Facebook from the Chicken Littles about water contamination, government, immigrants, terrorists, blah, blah, blah. Many of these are the same people that rail against EPA regulations and water protection programs. All of that to say, we followed recommended protocols and continue to drink tap water. ETA: Where I grew up, we had well water. It was contaminated by runoff from all the farms nearby. That waster was not safe to drink. My parents had to have a system with high heat and UV light to decontaminate that water, then it was filtered through a number of systems before it came into the house for use. This is exactly what we do. We get 3-4 five gallon jugs for our home water cooler and I think the total ends up being about $20-25 a month. We fill our water bottles out of those jugs every day, all day. The guy comes and picks up the empties when he drops off the full bottles once a month, so the bottle deposit ends up being a wash. We live in an area that IMO isn’t far enough away from a decades old chemical dump site and even though they say our well water tests safe to drink, I’m not taking that chance. No amount of filtering will remove the forever chemicals that were dumped decades ago, so quite a few homes in my general area were switched over to city water several years ago. For me the expense is worth the peace of mind. That makes total sense for you and anyone that has any sort of water safety concerns. We drink about 1.5 - 2 gallons a day and don't have room in our small home for a large bottled water dispenser and to store the bottles, so we would have to buy gallon bottles of water to store in the fridge. It just doesn't seem to make sense (money and environment-wise) for us when we are fortunate to have safe drinking water. |
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Jul 5, 2024 15:48:35 GMT
We had home delivery with Ready Refresh and it was $125 a month for 10 5 gallon jugs. It was way more than buying water at the store.
It also made it difficult to travel as I was still needing to buy water for ds' medical formula.
He can not have tap water. He has to have purified water or spring water from a bottle.
At least our bottles are recycled. The ones we'd get while inpatient are not able to be recycled.
In all honesty seeing the amount of plastic we go through due to medical equipment and supplies that is not able to be recycled, I am just glad the water bottles are.
I make sure to be environmentally friendly in other ways.
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Post by JoP on Jul 5, 2024 15:49:44 GMT
Yes I do
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 5, 2024 15:57:01 GMT
I typically drink it from my fridge at my house. At my parents, I drink from the tap.
I live in Colorado and for the most part our water is awesome.
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Post by hopemax on Jul 5, 2024 16:28:32 GMT
Exactly. In 1987, we visited my Dad’s cousin in Boulder and we commented on how good the tap water tasted. Having been around good water most of my life, either in western Washington and now in Colorado, I have a low tolerance for bad tasting water.
When I visit my Dad and his Florida sulfur water, I bring a cup of filtered water to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Bottled water if we are on vacation in SoCal. In AZ we had a Brita, but that was also just to keep a supply of cold water in the fridge, because what comes out of the tap in summer is not.
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