Same here. There are times during big storms and typhoons when we’re advised not to drink it for a couple of days. We always have bottled water readily available anyway.
Brussels.
I drink tap water all the time. Warm tap water! We have one of those Brita filters but I can’t be bother to change it as regularly as I should.
The tap water here just tastes bad. I used to think I hated water, but it turned out I hated out tap water. Pure water actually has a slightly sweet taste to it.
Half the bottled waters taste good, and the others taste bad. And both groups taste pretty much the same. I mostly drink distilled water, which tastes like Aquafina or Sam’s Choice, even though the latter actually has extra ingredients on the label. The stuff that tastes like Dasani is bad. Neither taste like the water from my house.
Connecticut: Tap water here, from my well, but filtered through a Brita filter. The well water has been tested intermittently, and come back safe every time. For drinking straight from the tap, the unfiltered water tastes just fine, but when I use it to make ice cubes for soda and the like, I notice that after the cubes melt, they lend a strange and unpleasant taste to the beverage. I have no clue why that’s so; it doesn’t really make sense to me. But the activated carbon filtering of my Brita pitcher eliminates the problem completely. And since I have the cold, filtered water on hand for making ice, that’s what I drink as well.
Yes, I drink the tap water. I don’t filter it at all. It tastes fine.
Given the quality of the tap water, I can’t understand why people pay for the bottled stuff.
Houston area; I drink the tap water but only after passing it through a Brita filter.
My current tap water is excellent and I can’t tell the difference between it straight out of the faucet or run through a Brita filter jug. I use the jug anyhow because I like my water very cold, so I keep it in the fridge. But I think it’s been at least a year since I changed the filter.
This, a hundred times.
Municipal water departments take their water very seriously. There’s all sorts of regulatory hellfire that comes down on them if their water is sub-standard. Dad used to work for the Houston Water dept, and I was honestly surprised to find out how seriously they took all that stuff- both the safety of the water itself, and the securing of water sources anticipating the city’s growth.
That said, I used to have a Brita filter when I lived in Plano and Frisco, TX because the local water authority got their water from a nearby lake, and during the summer, there was a distinctly funky dirt-like taste due to compounds produced by some sort of lake bacteria. It was perfectly safe to drink, but just didn’t taste good, so I filtered it.
Now that I live in Dallas proper, the water’s fine, and I don’t even bother filtering it.
I drink tap water. I also occasionally drink bottled water but only sparkling.
Tap water here is awful tasting! Shallow wells and old leaking pipes.
HEB bottled spring water is expensive,but tastes much better
Not here. There is a pretty reliable supply of bottle water that suits our needs and we boil water for the critters ( dog and four cats ). A running joke amongst the expats is that drinking the tap water would allow someone to drop that extra 3kg just before the holiday break. :eek:
I answered this in PM, but in case anyone else was wondering…
You can buy hand sanitizer.
You can fill a small bowl with water, dip your hands in, lather up, then dip again to rinse.
You can have someone pour a bottle of water over your hands.
If you’ve ever gone camping before, it’s that same creative process of problem-solving.
I drink tap water. Because my tap water is from Poland Springs.