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

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.

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

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

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

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". ;)

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

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

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.

I 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.

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

No, I don't drink 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.

It's horrible!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

har har!

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

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.

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.

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!!!!

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!

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.

At least not any more than I have to.

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

we drink that now. :hi:

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

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

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

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.

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!