Who here does not drink tap water? Where do you live?

[maveric]

I'm in San Diego and hardly anyone down here, myself included, drinks water right from the tap. Theres a funny, sometimes foul taste to the water here.

I remember when I lived in Tampa 25 years ago, the water tasted, and smelled like sulphur.

[Catch22Dem]

1. I only drink tap water

But that wasn't your question was it? ;)

[alwynsw]

2. I drink mostly tap water

Only tap water at home. We have a nice, deep, CLEAN well, with CLEAN water.

[meti57b]

3. I ....

:hi: I'm in a 'burb about ten miles NE of downtown Los Angeles and I don't drink the tap water.

[bearfartinthewoods]

4. no tap becaus we're on a well and it's sulphur

[Robb]

5. Our tap water is so good....

Well, ours is good too, but there's a guy just down the highway in Ouray, Colorado that's pretty much just bottling the town water.

He's calling it Biota, an acronym for "blame it on the altitude". ;)

[Liberal Christian]

6. I drink tap water

but I filter it. We have good water, but sometimes you can smell a little chlorine.

[supernova]

7. I drink my well water

All the minerals in it give it a slightly sweet taste. And it's crystal clear.

[Cleita]

8. I stopped drinking tap water in the city a long time ago

when I discovered that they recover and purify sewage water and reintroduce it into the fresh water system. It's probably okay, but the idea gags me. Right now we have our own well and the water is very sulfuric, so I only use it for washing.

[HuckleB]

13. Where do you live?

[Cleita]

17. Central California coast.

[Benhurst]

9. I live in Western North Carolina, and I drink tap water; but

I filter it.

[mlawson]

21. I live here as well; why do you filter it???

Asheville water tastes so good, that visitors take home gallons of it, straight from the tap.

Now, I was in FLA in December. That water was so foul I could not drink it. But I had brought along three gallons of Asheville water, so I was fine.

[wtmusic]

10. About two miles away from an EPA superfund site

The old Lockheed Skunk Works, where industrial solvents were disposed of by dumping 'em out back.

No, I don't drink tap water.

[jmm]

11. I was warned not to drink my tap water.

My mom works in a lab and a friend of hers tested my tap water this summer. When the results came in her friend said she wouldn't drink it, even if it was filtered.

[HuckleB]

12. I didn't drink the tap water in Phoenix.

It's horrible!

Luckily, Portland has wonderful tap water. It's all I drink here.

[imax2268]

41. Second that...

No Tap water...not since those two little boys died...forget it...!

[creativelcro]

14. Boston: only bottled water. No real reason though...

[IronLionZion]

15. I use a Brita filter

because the water in Rochester will make a billy goat puke. Well, it tastes horrible. The mountain well water in Somerset, PA tastes better than anything you can buy at a store and its free. And its completely pure, safe to drink and has calcium.

[tinrobot]

16. LA tap water with a Brita...

Tap water is perfectly fine as long as you have good plumbing. There is a slight chlorine taste to it, but if you filter it or put it in the fridge for an hour, the chlorine goes away.

Some cable network did a taste test with LA tap water against a number of other bottled/filtered waters. LA tap water won the contest.

Remember, tap water is regulated by the EPA and must be tested hourly. Bottled water is regulated by the FDA and is tested weekly.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. I can't stand our tap water...

and here in the MD suburbs of DC, the water is expensive compared with many parts of the country.

[soothsayer]

23. I don't drink the DC/VA/MD water either

unless i absolutely must.

We don't even have chlorine anymore, we have that new terrible ammonia stuff that DOES NOT LEAVE THE WATER EVER! You know how you could let chlorinated water sit for few days and the cholorine would dissipate? Well this stuff doesn't. And it kills fish, so you can't use it with your aquarium of pond fish cuz it makes their red blood cells not be able to carry oxygen. Even if you have a home DISTILLER, it will not get rid of this stuff.

i drink spring water.

Luckily the ol' GF has a farm in Haymarket with delicious well water, so I drink alot of that too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. What do you use for your fish?

Are they using the ammonia stuff in all jurisdictions? Maybe I should stop cooking with it too...

[BigDaddyLove]

19. We don't drink straight tap water at all anymore........

just spring or bottled; though I do make coffee with tap water.

Since starting about 2 1/2 years ago we've lived in Denver, Santa Rosa Ca., Portland OR, and now on Long Island.

[Liberal Christian]

26. I'd re-use coffee grounds

before I'd make coffee with unfiltered tap water from anywhere.

[hlthe2b]

20. Denver: I will drink tap water but routinely filter it...

I'm just not a big fan of residual chlorine taste. One thing to take into account, fellow water "filterers" and bottled water drinkers is that you may need to take extra steps to get enough floride for your teeth, since floride is filtered out along with the chlorine.

[gate of the sun]

22. I never drink tap water

unless I have nothing else. I live in Santa Fe, the water taste like bleach to me and well honestly I don't trust our fair government to keep our water clean. When they came out and said that pregnant women should drink bottled water it was pretty clear that the water in general is not safe.

[hedgetrimmer]

37. i'm so addicted to the bleach in the water now i have to put it into

the bottled water... i say hey i'm a guy i don't need to worry about being pregnant... so how 'bout 'nother shot of clorox?

[DS1]

24. I drink out of a glass

har har!

In all actuality, a Brita, which was originally bought for crystal clear bong water.

[PhishWithLemon99]

25. Only bottled water in Hershey, PA...

there's a lot of limestone around here, including a huge cave a mile away, and it makes the water extremely hard and it tastes pretty foul.

[F-5]

27. I drink tap.

It's free. Why not? But the tap here in Morris, Minnesota does suck a helluva lot. It tastes like chlorine.

But at my old house, my family and I lived in the country and we couldn't drink our tap because of iron, sulfides, and other crap in it.

[aQuArius]

28. I HATE tap water in Texas...

I grew-up in Utah with natural mountain spring water... I buy my water now since the tap water in Denton County tastes like mildew!!!!

[corporatewhore]

38. i can guarntee you its better than the tap in the rio grande valley

[Wcross]

29. Well water- I drink it.

I am in a pretty good area for well water. I am near the Jack Daniels and George Dickell distillery's. Same aquifer anyways...the water tastes great- only 28ppm!

[bikebloke]

30. My tap has a filter

I drink water all the time. Bottled water would add up quick. But that's in the kitchen. In the room with the bath, I've been known to swig it raw out of the tap. I figure it keeps my immunity system updated. Though with my global wanderings, I'm sure I've ingested worse.

[Sentath]

31. I do not drink the tapwater

At least not any more than I have to.

It has a rotting meat smell some days here in Stillwater OK

[corporatewhore]

32. when i lived in the Rio Grande Valley i only drinked bottled

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. In Michigan. Used to, but we got a new fridge with a water filter so

we drink that now. :hi:

[Lostmessage]

35. I only drink bottled water

We might be drinking tap and we don't know it.

[NoPasaran]

36. I don't drink the tap water

But I use it to make coffee and tea and ice because that magically makes it all better.
Austin, TX

[scarlet_owl]

39. Not anymore. Too much chlorine.

We live in Champaign, IL, and most of the time it isn't too bad. Sometimes, though, the water smells like bleach.

[slackmaster]

40. LMAO - I'm in San Diego too and the tap water is BAAAAAAD!

I stopped drinking tap water when I moved out of my parents' house at age 17. Started drinking Perrier water because it was trendy and pretty good. I use filtered water from a vending machine for all of my drinking and cooking, and feel some guilt for giving tap water to my cat. Once in a while I'll drink tap water if I am very thirsty and no bottled water is handy. There are springs in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park that have better water than what comes out of the tap here.

San Diego tap water comes mostly from the Colorado River. Up at its souce (in Colorado) the water is fine, but we tap it way down in the desert (Lake Mead if I'm not mistaken).

The only place I've lived that had harder water than San Diego was Alamogordo, New Mexico. If you use ice made from southern NM tap water in your drink, the cubes emit little flakes of crystallized calcium salts that look like tiny snowlakes settling to the bottom of the glass.

[shanti]

42. sulphur water, yechhhhh!

when i lived in upstate ny, we had sulphur water. dad used to make me drink a tall glass of it every nite cause i wouldn't drink it unless forced. it was nasty!