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Do you drink tap water?

Do you drink tap water?

  • Yes I drink Tap water

    Votes: 65 51.2%

  • I filter my water at Home

    Votes: 46 36.2%

  • I drink bottled water

    Votes: 7 5.5%

  • WATER? Only if it is used to dilute my adult beverage

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • I only drink prune juice

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Carrots

    Votes: 7 5.5%
  • Total voters
    127
  • Poll closed .
#81
EricF said:
...For those not familiar with the various cities that make up the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Artesia does have the appearance of a place you would find good water. Highly carcinogenic industrial waste? Yes. Clean, pure water? No.
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You can add the entire West side, large portions of the San Gabriel Valley, and a myriad of locally affected areas to that list. I definitely wouldn't go around, drinking shallow groundwater! :atoz:
 
#82
elgecko said:
You can add the entire West side, large portions of the San Gabriel Valley, and a myriad of locally affected areas to that list. I definitely wouldn't go around, drinking shallow groundwater! :atoz:
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Valuable safety tip!


The water in my area is from local wells and tastes pretty darn good. The water that runs through my fridge gets filtered, but I have no problem drinking from the tap or hose.
 
#83
EricF said:
Valuable safety tip!


The water in my area is from local wells and tastes pretty darn good. The water that runs through my fridge gets filtered, but I have no problem drinking from the tap or hose.
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Drinking water wells are usually DEEP so they're typically unaffected by cooties. SoCal also imports a lot of water from the Owens Valley and Colorado River.
 
#84
I live in upstate NY and have well water. It's filtered twice, once after the tank through a high density cotton sediment filter, then through a UV system to kill microbial crap. Still tastes horrible. The water is safe, but I just feel better giving my family bottled when I can. NYC has better tasting water than my neighborhood does and is supplied by a reservoir about 30 minutes from me.
 
#86
My company specializes in well remediation, and filtration of muni water supplies. Knowing what is in water means I will never drink from the tap unless I'm in NY city or the pacific NW, both have great water , for now. :ninja: Within the next 10 to 20 years though the tap water in most of the US is set to become THE major issue. Thanks to fracking my company stands to make a fortune making water potable again. Carbon is good but check with the NSF or WQA website to make sure your filter is rated to remove contaminents that may be in your water, not all do.
 
#87
Carbon filters are great and remove all sorts of things but the filters most of us use just decrease odors. Especially if you have chloramines in your source water. As long as you don't have a lot of heavy metals and industrial crud in your water the GI tract is pretty selective and you end up excreting most of the bad stuff. But as the person above said water will likely be an increasingly valuable resource.



For the record I drink tap water as long as I have data on what I'm drinking. I travel a lot for work and deal with water and usually when I'm out of town I go bottled. Which is a whole nother can o worms.
 
#90
I should correct myself, I drink filtered water that is mixed with malted grain and hops, then fermented and aged.

That is after all pretty much how we survived the middle ages.
 
#92
City of Birmingham has some of the cleanest water in America, but I'm not on their system.

I've got a (deep) well and it's nice and clean and a little hard but not enough to be worth worrying about.

Times being what they are and our state EPA being little more than a rubber stamp for the coal industry, I have our well water tested at least once a year.

Tap water at home, bottled when I'm away.
 
#99
HaMMerHeD said:
The tap water here is a goodly amount of hexavalent chromium...in fact, it has the highest amount measured of any of the cities tested in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexavalent_chromium#Presence_in_major_cities_and_pending_regulation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman,_Oklahoma#Drinking_water_controversy

So that's fun. I filter my water.
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So you could rinse brass parts in hot tap water and chrome plate them? Neato!

Sorry, bad joke. That really sucks.
 

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