Where do you live, and do you have good drinking water?

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Kibbo

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London, Ontario Canada.

Good water.

I lived in Guelph for for awhile, and you are right. The water there is exceptionally good.
 

Wallydraigle

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Ohio; my water comes from a hole in the ground and is run off from the strip mines. It's full of iron and sulfur compounds, and will stain anything you put in it bright orange. It's not very good.
 

v3rrv3

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Central Washington and I'm on well water. It's honestly the best water I've ever tasted. I don't drink water much but the city water here tastse like poo and it's better than the bottled water I've had.

- Kevin
 

Gurck

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NYC suburbs, water tastes disgusting and is supposedly pretty bad for you. Ironically, the city gets its water from where I am, or a bit north, and it's pretty good. I use a Pur faucet filter and that makes it drinkable.
 

MDE

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Chicago, IL suburbs, water isn't bad at all. We get Chicago's Lake Michigan water.
 

Czar

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Iceland, tastes so good that its one of the things you miss when you go on vacation to other countries.
 

BW86

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freeport, ny, tastes pretty good to me :cool: other towns near me the water doesnt taste the same ;)
 

MikeMike

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suburb of Cleveland ohio.

well water

Best stuff on earth, and im not kidding, i love our water.

MIKE
 

OrganizedChaos

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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I tasted water in Vegas and boy does that water taste like chlorine.

are you kidding? i was there last april and the stuff that came out of the faucet at the hotel (harrahs) was better then anything else i've ever had out of a tap near where i live.


back on topic, my water is crap, it always seems to have a brown tinge to it, the calcium levels are way the hell over state guidelines, the distribribution system is falling apart, and to top it off every few years theres a lead scare.

billerica massachusets,

Source: Concord river.

the upshot its that we just had our first water rate increase since may of 1980 and its still cheeper than any of the surronding communities, we've never had a drought, to my knowledge we've never had a water ban.
 

Zim Hosein

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I live in NYC & the water is great, but :beer: is better! :p
 

compudog

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North East PA, water is heavily chlorinated from local resevoirs. It's fine for drinking through PUR or Brita, but not straight from the tap. Where I grew up, water was great though.
 

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Lifer
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NJ, we have a well, the water tastes (and sometimes smells) terrible.
 

OverVolt

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MD, well water system, out water is very hard and acidic, it eats away at the pipes, showerheads, and everything. The water is fine to drink but it taste funny because it's so hard, and has iron content.
 

Tremulant

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Coral Springs, FL. The water isn't that great (smells funny) but we have a filtration system and it makes it delicious. When I lived in NY the water was better, I think.. that was almost 10 years ago and I was a little kid, but my parents liked the water there better.
 

zugzoog

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Melbourne, Australia, very good quality, only thing is they chlorinate it. :thumbsdown:

The town where I grew up sources its watrer from a mountain stream, absolutely beautiful stuff.