Rain Vs. Tap Water

i never knew how GOOD nyc tap water is

but its, like, really good. way better than tap water in LA.

LA is better than NYC

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nyc tap water is better than bottled water here!

what's their secret?

Where is here?

someone i know only drinks poland spring water cuz it tastes like the tap water in maine.

"someone you know"

wink wink.

Does anyone else feel kind of weird getting tap water from a faucet other than the kitchen sink's? If my husband is using hot water in the kitchen I'll fill my cup from the bathroom sink, but it feels subtly wrong. Like the same feeling of disease you have when I'm in a car that doesn't have a seatbelt for the seat I'm sitting in.

Yes, I have always felt this way, other than in one house that I occupied during or immediately after college when the bathroom sink water was the coldest and the best in the house.

i don't feel weird but i do think of it as being different water somehow. could be my sink was clogged for a while so it looked really dirty.
i have a question about tap water though. why do you need filters (brita, etc.) for city tap water? i just realized i'm the only person that doesn't have one. my parents have a well and drink bottled water only, too.

i feel like bathroom water is less cold in my house too but i don't think that's possible

I was recently told that tap water in Portland tastes like dead leaves. Tastes normal to me.

harbl: it depends on what city you live in. some cities' water is more drinkable than others'

maybe but i don't know if the filter would catch the stuff that makes it undrinkable! i'm gonna get alzheimers or something aren't i

I think that it's less a function of the water and more a function of plumbing. We use a filter and can taste the difference probably because our building is oldish and the plumbing might be funky. Also sometimes the city water tastes too chlorine-y.

In the same town where the good bathroom sink water house was located, sometimes after a snow storm the water would taste salty, presumably from all of the street salt that got washed into the drains (that's just a theory; I have no idea how urban water treatment works but the water really did taste salty sometimes). It was gross.

i think i just get used to bad water and don't notice anymore :/

That's good, though! When the revolution comes, all us water-filtering pansies are going to die of dehydration while you'll survive drinking stagnant water out of puddles.

that's what i always tell myself, for real. it makes me feel real superior tbh

I live in the city and my tap water's absolutely fine

I've never lived anywhere that we used a filter

The U.S. has one of the best standards in the world when it scomes to water cleanliness, you don't really need a Brita.

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i'm not that confident in our abilities. just careless about my long-term health.

http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters btw

that wawa looks like peepee

you can see how polluted your tap water is here http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/home

Exceed Health Guidelines on 14 chemicals. National Average is 4
Pollutants Found: 21 chemicals. National Average is 8.

GO CHICAGO!!!

Some of the chemicals that are excessive in Chicago's water include lead, chloroform, and two (2!) kinds of radium. Resolved: drink more beer.

Funny you should say that, Jenny -- I'm reading a book about taverns in the revolutionary era US and pretty much everyone at the time felt water was unsafe or only fit for horses, so it was all alcoholic beverages all the time. Apparently John Adams started each day with a mug of hard cider.

mb i can be president after all...

gah this stuff makes me mad. that's why i'd rather not think about it and just keep drinking gallons of unfiltered lead-laden city water per day.

some people use brita because it makes the water taste better, it doesnt surprise me that you dont harbl, given that you have a long history, of having weird taste

i challenge u to do a blind taste test max

wait so harbl you're blind *and* you have no taste buds

i'm blind but i wear glasses, they are brown-colored so the water looks clear to me

I'm reading a book about taverns in the revolutionary era US and pretty much everyone at the time felt water was unsafe or only fit for horses, so it was all alcoholic beverages all the time.

Yup! Small beer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-alcohol_beer#Small_beer

ive done tap water/bottle water blind taste tests before. its like diet coke and real coke. u can tell the difference.

i'm talking about filtered, i don't think it's different. it's ok though. i respect your preferences. i wouldn't say your tastes are weird ; )

cool

Those pollutants sure are yummy, though. I can't find Chicago water anywhere else I have traveled in the US.

They are also what makes our pizza and hot dogs so good.

We have a filter and it seems to taste better. Why not. I have tasted bottled water that is less robust than tap water.

Bottled water tastes v weird to me.

I really like this water filter because:

It is cheap.
The filters are cheap.
There are no moving parts so it doesn't break every three weeks.
When you replace the filter, you replace the almost all the parts that the water runs through so you don't end up with a bunch of yicky stuff caked into the crevices.

isn't one of the concerns about tap water the trace amounts of pharmaceuticals that make it through the purification process

the brita has an active charcoal filter or some thing, catches all those organic compounds or whatever, plus it just tastes better

yeah maybe i just wasn't sure if it was like other people are paranoid or i'm dumb
i could get one, someday

The U.S. has one of the best standards in the world when it scomes to water cleanliness, you don't really need a Brita.

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This times a million. I still have a Britta from college that I use so the water is extra fresh but there is no filter in it. There really isn't any need to filter tap water in the US and compared to how problematic clean water is in most of the world stressing over this is just laughable. If it's a matter of taste I guess that's different but I've never really tasted a difference tbh.

you can use yer brita to get rid of fluorite

yeah i don't stress
at the same time i wouldn't compare it to the rest of the world and i think we have a lot of problems

it's hard to ban chemicals here compared to the EU and canada, for example

idk there was a big thing in the nyt about how polluted drinking water is - i have p much no facts other than stuff i read in a couple of article every now and then but im super skeptical about how well regulated/policed these things are

i mean i also kind of doubt that my brita filter is going to prevent me from getting cancer if the water is r contaminated but i still dont think it hurts

one filter costs like as much as a 6 pack but its good for like 3 months

can you really put a price on your health

i posted it earlier lampie
still something about drinking plain tap water, i feel like it makes me stronger and filterers are wimps, i might become a superperson if i don't get cancer

from the times article:

All told, more than 62 million Americans have been exposed since 2004 to drinking water that did not meet at least one commonly used government health guideline intended to help protect people from cancer or serious disease, according to an analysis by The Times of more than 19 million drinking-water test results from the District of Columbia and the 45 states that made data available.

harbl im even cheaper than u but srsly a brita + filters is really not that much money

it's not about money or anything, i was just wondering!
ur not cheaper than me btw ; )

lol idk - im p frugal

lampie

libcrypt?

Harbl I didn't mean EU or Canada - I meant all those other places in the world where fiding potable water is such an issue that the act of doing so puts ppls lives at risk as much as driking the polluted water that is readily available to them. Basically worrying about our pretty damn clean tap water is a first world problem that really isn't that much of an issue in the whole scheme of things. Can filtered water hurt? Of course not but do I really think that it's necessary or that filtering tap water actually does that much? No, probably not.

yeah i know what you mean and i agree with you about people who worry about tap water!

i just think we have a long way to go is all. should be able to ban stuff, at least. maybe enforce some more laws.

anyway if you live in an old building with old/rusty pipes it doesn't matter how good the purification plant is in your county

my bldg is approximately 130 years old, guessing. MEH

Oh yeah, I don't disagree with that point at all. Pretty sure I discussed that on some cosmetics/personal care products thread somewhere in regards to things like parabens etc. I just know ppl who do get really weird about their water filters and bottled water and imo that's pretty retarded. Like I said earlier though if your water tastes really funky then that might be a diff story but I really don't think health should be much of a concern re your tap water.

gonna continue being a man and not using a filter then :)

lollll ;-)

So bottled water vs. tap water is there really a difference? I know bottled water is clearer than my tap water, and it definitely tastes less metallic, but is it really all that much better for you?