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quality of water supply

zCypher

zCypher

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Have you ever looked into the quality of your water supply? I was curious about it myself, so I looked up the city website and found annual charts of organic and inorganic substances. Among the inorganic substances there is uranium, mercury, lead, fluoride, copper, boron, arsenic and several others. In the organic substances there is at least 5 variants of chlorine among other things.

I knew about the chlorine and suspected it was fluoridated but damn... Upon googling several of the substances the most common source is cited to be sewage/landfill contamination. Wonderful.

What is your water solution? I know for many, the answer is bottled water. However I am under the impression that the bottled water industry is very poorly regulated.

I know there are a slew of filtration products available, but do any of them really make a difference for any of this stuff?
 
I have no idea how healthy my water is. It tastes terrible out of the tap, but it tastes pretty good coming through my Pur filter. I use the one that goes right on the faucet.
 
Louisville water has actually been voted the best tasting and best in the country. Also, it's just water, it isn't going to hurt you. Just drink it from the tap or filter it if you must.

Careful when you read thing about municipal water, most of the information is from people who aren't quite right in the head and frankly suffer severe mental illness.
 
San Francisco water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir all the way from Yosemite National Park. I do believe we have some of the best tasting tap water in the state. I still use a Brita Filter though.
 
i heard nyc have the best water out of the tap. but i could be wrong, maybe there's a list somewhere... too lazy to look
 
My city's water comes out of the faucet brown and I was at first skeptical about drinking it. However, ever since I decided to start drinking it I no longer need yearly enemas, so life is good.
 
Bottle water usually exchanges several hands from the supplier to the distributor before it hits the shelf.

Fawk, some of us have to die sooner or later. Though it's good to check to see if they're excessive amounts of substances in your well from time to time. As for tap water, I imagine the township, county, or city will check that from time to time. Though their tolerances are much more loose than you health freaks.
 
Chlorine and chloramines are disinfection byproducts that are intended to remain in the system as a safety measure.
 
Most of these chemicals are naturally occurring in nature and will be in plenty of natural, uninfected water supplies if you look around enough. Well water is definitely no exception to this, if anything it's probably worse since it's not nearly as well regulated.
 
In VT we have lots of local springs coming out of a hillside. I drink water that I bottle at a local spring that everybody loves, it has a big granite basin with 1848 written on the side and it comes out of the pipe at like 10gpm. It doesn't freeze in the winter, and is in a town that has no incoming water, but feeds 2 rivers. I love it. I wish I could move to that town, put up a house and drink out of my own spring. My town's water sucks and I won't drink it because it tastes bad. I don't own a filter because it can also filter out the good dissolved solids in the water.

Uranium does naturally occur. A nearby town wanted to expand their well and drilled deeper into the granite hitting huge concentration of natural uranium. The town had to admit their mistake and offer bottled water to residents.

I am not a fan of added fluoride. The quality of this additive which is only used to medicate the people (and dispose of toxic waste at the same time) is not properly verified if it even comes in a form close to naturally occurring. I can buy mouthwash or toothpaste, which all contain it. You don't medicate people with a fixed dose. Too much fluoride for body weight results in brittle bones, which happens to a number of babies and small children these day from overdosing on it. The ADA has finally come out and recently admitted to not give it to children, of course after years of it being good for us and nothing to worry about.
 
Originally posted by: OCguy
The 1.1 Billion people worldwide who lack proper drinking water, and the 1.8 million people who die annually due to water contamination, would love to try some of your tasty flouridated water, believe me.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_water
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meh...don't care about them...theys not 'Muricans...😛

In spite of the city's claim of having great tasting tap water...most people here either buy bottled water, or heavily filter it. NASTY tasting stuff, heavy chlorine taste. Our annual water report makes it LOOK good, but as we all know...numbers are only as good as they want them to be. :roll:
 
Riverside water is completely solid white out of the tap, cold.
No thanks to the pipe juice.

And I thought LA tap was bad.
 
For the record, the information I got was directly from the city's website, here: http://www.h2opointe-claire.qc...lts/subinorga09ang.pdf

I agree not everyone benefits from having readily accessible water, and from that perspective I have no right to complain. Still, for those that are on a meter and pay for their water I think they should be able to choose whether the water is fluoridated and what measures are taken regarding other substances. It doesn't seem to be a priority for most people, yet it (clean water) is so very critical to good health.

I have read about fluoride accumulating in bones and also the pineal gland, with links to cancer and alzheimer's. I've had my doubts about fluoride ever since I was a little kid. I'm not convinced of its goodness, nor the sources of it that the cities use.

I think it's a valid thing to be concerned with, just like the quality of food.
 
Originally posted by: astroidea
Riverside water is completely solid white out of the tap, cold.
No thanks to the pipe juice.

And I thought LA tap was bad.
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Yeah, LA tap is bad. My bro buys drinking water from the supermarket.
 
Actually, here in Raleigh, we get a water quality report once or twice a year. I'm not from here originally so the first time I received one, I was kinda conused as to why I was getting one.

Dave
 
Originally posted by: Apathetic
Actually, here in Raleigh, we get a water quality report once or twice a year. I'm not from here originally so the first time I received one, I was kinda conused as to why I was getting one.

Dave
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That's cool. What did it say? They never sent us one here, I had to dig up the info myself on their website, but was glad that it was there for the finding.
 
I think my water comes from a giant reservoir they built near town, I get quality reports yearly that I don't read. I don't like tap water though, I could taste the difference when my pur filter wore out. I'm waiting on my new filters 🙁
 
I live in Hawaii, and probably have better tasting tap water than anywhere in the world...

the water quality report for my area: http://bws.honolulu.gov/ccr/11061.pdf

But I still have one of these: RO/DI Filter

Use fresh Reverse Osmosis water for drinking...and love it.

It's amazing how the water tastes sweet even at room temp. Gives that mouth feel, like it's still cool.

Combine the RO water with 5 gallon water dispenser, and I have all the "free" clean pure RO water that I want (TDS = 2).

the De-Ionized Water is for the fish tank...
 
😉 :laugh:
I like that bottled stuff from Poontang Springs the best. It is biologically treated and sent thru a natural filter. No fluoride, or chlorine. It's bottled right from the Poontang outlet while it is still warm. Doesn't taste like that city tap water at all! Must be good for you, right?

 
Originally posted by: Pepsei
i heard nyc have the best water out of the tap. but i could be wrong, maybe there's a list somewhere... too lazy to look
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Toronto has fantastic tap water.
 
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