Do you drink tap water?

[bassinplace]

Artesian wells occur when the groundwater table (top of the groundwater) intersects the ground surface resulting in water "springing" forth from the ground. It's how our neighbor cities Artesia and Fountain Valley got their names.

Shows what I know. Actually, now that you say it, I do remember reading that. Looks kinda funny coming out of a mosaic bench in the middle of a parking lot. Guess it's as trustworthy as your average plumbing.

 

[elgecko]

Shows what I know. Actually, now that you say it, I do remember reading that. Looks kinda funny coming out of a mosaic bench in the middle of a parking lot. Guess it's as trustworthy as your average plumbing.

As long as the groundwater isn't contaminated!

 

[two fingers]

Filtered on the fridge where I live now. Back home where my parents live I drink it right from the tap.

 

[Unrepresented]

I drink primarily tap water, however I like to add some delicious carbon favoring to it via a filter in a jug.

 

[jmattbassplaya]

In Memphis I'll drink it out of a tap. It's hands down the best tap water in the US (though some claim NYC or San Fran to have it). I have to filter it pretty much anywhere else.

 

[MJ5150]

What is that? All I can read is "Olympia Artesian Well". Looks suspicious to me.

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I've been drinking water from that well for a long time. It is way more popular now than it used to be. On some days, you have to wait 20-30 minutes for your turn to fill up. Those are the days the hippies come down from their treehouses and fill up a few 55 gallon drums.

The city of Olympia turned it into a park. Back in the day, it was just a pipe between a few rocks.

-Mike

 

[bassinplace]

As long as the groundwater isn't contaminated!

Yeah, that was my line of thinking. As in, "what's that pipe connected to?"

 

[bassinplace]

I drink primarily tap water, however I like to add some delicious carbon favoring to it via a filter in a jug.

Mmm, carbon.

 

[Lee Moses]

In Memphis I'll drink it out of a tap. It's hands down the best tap water in the US (though some claim NYC or San Fran to have it). I have to filter it pretty much anywhere else.

I don't think I've ever had better. And our filter went into a cabinet during the two years we lived there.

 

[Stilettoprefer]

At home I drink the tap water. It comes from the Willamette... Not so yummy if you know what used to be going on with the septic treatment plant up stream...

I really like the water we get at work, though. There's about 4 of those dispensers with the big water tanks on top around the shop. Lots of guys fill up their water bottles before leaving the shop and drink it at home or leave it in their cars.

 

[MatticusMania]

Yeah, that was my line of thinking. As in, "what's that pipe connected to?"

Id assume the same source as everyone elses pipes... but maybe not?

 

[Unrepresented]

Mmm, carbon.

Carbon particulates: water's MSG.

 

[Junk420]

I did drink tap water, then I bought one of those 0 water pitchers and I'm addicted. Tap water tastes like poison to me now

 

[Lee Moses]

I just drank from something like this a few days ago on a farm in upstate New York.

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Tap water. I trust the city of Scotia far more than I trust corporate America. What's Evian spelled backwards?

 

[Marial]

Grew up on well water (high mineral content), now that I live in the city I drink tap water. Doesn't bother me at all. The well water at the beach house is a tad sulfury, though, so I buy water when we go there.

 

[Johnny Crab]

No.
We have a well.

 

[tastybasslines]

FWIW, in my drinking days, I'd buy the cheapest vodka they had, usually Kamkatcha and run that through a Britta filter 4 times. I swear it worked to make the vodka taste better. I was too lazy to put the extra filtered vodka back in the bottle, so I just kept cold vodka in the Britta jug in my fridge.

 

[baba]

Most of our water comes from soil runnoff from the snowpack in the Sierra Mountains. It is collected in the Hetch Hetchy reseviour north of Yosemite. I think it is a good idea to know the source of my water.

While backpacking past the Hetch Hetchy I peed in the reservoir. True story. Sorry.

Ever hit the fresh spring on the way to Half Moon Bay? Head south down 280 and bounce west towards Half Moon Bay....forgot that road name that heads up those headlands. Right about when you start going back down towards the coast you will see a pull off on the right with a spring. Great place to fill up.

 

[hover]

I filter at the faucet, and use one of those tall, aluminium "sippy" sport bottles, I go home at lunch so I refill. Other than that, we get the shorty bottles of Poland Spring for my son's lunch, and the school recycles the bottles.