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Mmmmm, PCBs and extreme amounts of limestone.

I think I'll pass. One run of the humidifier and the filter was rock hard and it said it wanted to be changed.
 
my parents have well water - that's good stuff so i drink that from the tap

i live in the city so i only drink bottled spring water - no purified crap for me
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Yes. Portland, OR has the freshest and cleanest tap water of any large city in the world. It actually pours completely clear and tastes as good as any bottled water.

edit: the source is so pure, in fact, that they don't have to treat the water in any way. No chemicals, no chlorine, no flouride. They just filter it and send it out.
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Good ol' Bull Run reservoir. I actually use a Brita, but I have no problems drinking the tap water.
 
Nah...don't drink tapwater very often. My wife and I have Arrowhead deliver bottled water every 2-3 weeks. The nice thing is that it comes with a dispenser to keep the water cold, so we can have nice cold water any time of the day. Especially nice right now since it's so hot in SoCal.

At work, we've got a dispenser hooked into the water supply that filters and chills the water.
 
Originally posted by: DurocShark
For some reason, I only like the tap out of the bathroom faucet...

Not in a cup tho. Gotta drink straight from the tap. The other faucets water tastes off.

I know, I'm wierd.
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DAMNN! I thought i was the only one!
 
Only drink the water that comes out of the fridge (goes through reverse osmosis system first and then goes through a filter in the fridge itself... good water)
 
Never! Here's why:

Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen fortysix, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard core commie works.

Mandrake: Jack... Jack, listen, tell me, ah... when did you first become, well, develop this theory.

Ripper: Well, I ah, I I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.

Mandrake: Yes...

Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense my power, and they seek my life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.

Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenzo once said about war?

Mandrake: No. I don't think I do sir, no.

Ripper: He said war was to important to be left to the Generals. When he said that, fifty years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Ripper: Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

Mandrake: Well, no I... I can't say I have, Jack.

Ripper: Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?

Mandrake: Well I... I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.

Ripper: On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Mandrake: Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite.. see what you're getting at, Jack.

Ripper: Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water.

Mandrake: Uhhh God...

Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake: Yes.

Ripper: You beginning to understand?

Mandrake: Yes.

Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

Mandrake: Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake: Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

Ripper: Well do you know what it is?

Mandrake: No. No, I don't know what it is. No.

Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
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They claim NYC has some of the best tap water around.

Sometimes I drink from Britta, sometimes I don't...
 
We have the Pur filter right on the tap. I have a phobia about using tap water. I even use the filtered water in all cooking, icecubes, everything. My girlfriend thinks I go overboard but she's obviously nuts.
 
Sometimes. In the summer, it's ridiculously warm though and almost impossible to get decent cold water out of a faucet.

The toilet seems to get pretty cold water, though, somehow.


Don't ask me how I know that.
 
Little known fact:

Tap water purity standards are set by the Environmental Protection Agency. Bottled water purity standards are set by the Food and Drug Administration. The standards set by the EPA are higher than those set by the FDA, so tap water that meets minimum standards is both cleaner and healthier than bottled water that meets minimum standards. I'd be willing to bet any bottled water drinkers that they could not distinguish between premium bottled water, cheapo bottled water, regular tap water and filtered tap water in a blind taste test. $10,000 to me if you fail to indentify which is which, $10,000 to you if you succeed. Any takers? Enough morons with more money than brains and I can retire.
 
Originally posted by: LordMaul
Sometimes. In the summer, it's ridiculously warm though and almost impossible to get decent cold water out of a faucet.

The toilet seems to get pretty cold water, though, somehow.


Don't ask me how I know that.
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:Q

 
I'll drink tap sometimes when I'm at home in NoCal. The water there tastes alright. Right now, living in west LA, no. It just tastes funny to me.
 
i heard it depends on where you live. when my family used to live in columbia missouri, and theyd drink tap water. not anymore, in san jose.
 
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