Our tap water tastes bad and has a lot of…something…in it that clogs up our showerhead and causes our faucets to need replacing periodically. Maybe crud from our old pipes, I don’t know. Smells funny too, and even the dogs don’t like to drink it until it has settled. We have a bunch of 5 gallon jugs we fill up at Walmart and we use that for drinking and making ice.
Our well water is delicious, but I buy bags of ice out of sheer laziness. They are cheap!
Tap water wherever I go in Europe, unless specificly warned against it by locals/guides, or if the local water is to chlorinated or otherwise bad tasting.
Africa/Asia - usually bottled, unless locals say it’s a-okay. (Never been to the Americas, but would prob. go tap in NA, bottle in SA).
Yes. My husband worked for the local water department as the Assistant Manager of Operations and both my father and my step-father worked at the local water dept. when I was growing up (all in large mid-western cities). I have no worries about the local water supply.
I don’t know why either, but our kitchen sink has a water fountain on the far right where some people put a squirty thing. The actual faucet is extendable so we didn’t need that attachment. There’s a filter attached under the sink to the water fountain, as we have whole house filters for everything else. Our well is shallow.
I dislike plastic waste. There’s enough of it here from the gallon juice bottles…
Western Washington boonies- well and septic.
How do you wash your hands when you don’t have tap water?
I cannot stand the taste of my tap water, so only drink bottled. I buy it by the gallon, and refill bottles from it. I miss the tap water in NYC, when I lived there.
I drink bottled only, as the stuff coming out of the tap is often salty and has come from a waste water filtration plant or desalination plant off the coast, or from underground and is contaminated. I do cook with tap water and have had no ill effects, but many here don’t even do that. Bottles of Nestle water come in 5 gallon containers and cost about 10 SAR (under $2).
I drink tap water and am not bothered by the flouride etc.
I live in the Uk, where we have a Drinking Water Inspectorate to keep an eye on things.
We buy 5 gallon bottles from the local spring; at three dollars per bottle after deposit, it’s not particularly expensive. Our house is more than 250 years old, and it has tested for some lead content in the water.
Pittsburgh tap water, carbon-filtered because my old house has lead pipes. (I’ve done testing to confirm that my filter is effective in removing that lead.)
Like most places, we get an annual written report from the water company showing the levels of various stuff in the water. It’s fine, and tastes great too, especially with ice cubes (also made using filtered water). I carry around a plastic bottle of tap water too.
Sure it can affect your health. It has a positive effect by killing stuff that would otherwise be harmful.
Yes, I drink tap water… even though there’s a filtered water dispenser on the fridge. There was one time in the 10+ years I’ve lived here when there was a problem with the water. Someone ran into a hydrant and there was a break in the water main, and the water, once it started coming out of the tap again, was dirty for a couple of hours.
I don’t think about the chlorine at all. Can’t smell it, can’t taste it. I’m more concerned about the fluorine, of which there isn’t any. There was a vote on whether to add it to the water, but people thought it was a Socialist Plot and it didn’t pass. At least I don’t have any kids whose teeth will rot later.
I have a Brita pitcher around here somewhere. I used it sometimes when I lived in L.A. In actuality, the water in my L.A. apartment was very good. The Brita filter made little difference. I don’t use a filter here. The water is some of the best I’ve ever tasted. That filtered water in the fridge door? We took the filter out. No need for it.
Were it not for the disconnected Point Roberts, I’m about as far northwest as you can be and still be in the Lower 48.
As much as I like tea, it requires attention and time to make. Plus it gets cold before I finish the pot. I like beer, too; but I only have one every couple/three months. Around here I drink coffee, and I drink tap water. I love the water here.
Do you find that the carbon filter “strips” the water of all the minerals and salts? I knew someone who had one and they said it made them dehydrated drinking it becasue it took all the salt out of the water and it was almost like drinking distilled water.
Bottled water is a scam. The notion that bottled water, which is almost completely unregulated, is somehow better for you than municipal water supplies, which are heavily regulated and frequently tested, is ridiculous. If you have serious concerns about your tap water, get a filter. Don’t switch to bottled water, there’s no telling what’s in that crap.
I drink well water. Much better than fluoridated water (gotta protect my bodily fluids)
All tap all the time. I live in Louisville, KY. We have good water here.
I prefer seltzer water cuz of the fizzies, but I never, ever drink plain bottled water unless that’s the only thing available and I’m thirsty beyond toleration.
We have very good tap water in New York.
Gross.
It sounds like you may have a valid reason for not drinking your tap water, but $5 for 3 gallons is quite expensive, relatively speaking. I drink municpal water and pay $4.85 per thousand gallons.
Drinking water can’t dehydrate you, no, not even distilled water. Distilled water is perfectly OK for drinking, although most people don’t find the taste appealing. People who go on with statements like that don’t know what they’re talking about.