Does your tap water taste good?

Lost_in_the_HTTP · May 4, 2024

I used to live in a place that almost had a reputation for good tasting tap water. Now I live where is tatsets OK, not great, not bad. I can drink it, but I don't really enjoy it and it has to be ice cold. Once it's room temperature, it gets a weird taste.

I deal with it by adding some sort of flavoring. No matetr if it's tea, coffee, lemon juice, lime juice, or some other flavoring. The dry crystal packets or the squirt stuff like Mio works well.

BoomerD · May 4, 2024

Oh hell no. Our tap water tastes horrid. I have 2 4"x20" "Big Blue" canister filters, one with a .5 micron pre-filter, the other with a carbon filter.

On the right is the .5 micron prefilter after almost 12 months...on the left, brand new. (In the back is the carbon filter.)

iRONic · May 6, 2024

I honestly don't know because I drink it cold out of the refrigerator dispenser and that has a filter on it.

pete6032 · May 6, 2024

Ajay · May 6, 2024

No. But we use a Brita filter for our drinking water/coffee/etc.

deadlyapp · May 6, 2024

We're in Houston so our water is pretty bad. When I lived in the PNW we would drink the tap water straight since it was basically just treated glacial runoff and was excellent.

We exclusively drink from fridge dispenser although I would like to install a full house filter at some point in the future.

sdifox · May 6, 2024

Our water is very hard but tastes ok.

https://www.markham.ca/wps/portal/home/neighbourhood-services/water-sewer/water-quality-and-testing/04-water-quality-and-testing

mindless1 · May 6, 2024

Ours is moderately hard, tastes acceptable most of the time but a bit bitter/bad after eating certain acidic fruit like fresh pineapple.

GodisanAtheist · May 6, 2024

Yeah, it's alright.

Red Squirrel · May 7, 2024

Ours is not terrible but you do get a chlorine taste if you drink it straight from the tap. I installed an under sink filter system years back and it gets rid of that taste.

Greenman · May 7, 2024

It's pretty good taste wise here.

herm0016 · May 7, 2024

from the well it is terrible, brown, flaky and full of uranium.

after a 20 micron and 5 micron filter it goes to an ion exchange resin tank, then the water softener for domestic use and then an RO system for drinking and cooking. after all that it's higher purity than a bottle in the shops. my 4x20 filters last about 3 months, the last one i cut open was packed full of very fine clay like stuff.

Pohemi · May 7, 2024

This town/area is supposed to have pretty good tap water, so I've been told. Don't know; don't care.

I filter my water whenever possible, but I try not to buy bottled water due to the waste. At home I have a 'Waterdrop' countertop 5-stage canister filter. Can't do an RO system here unless I did a countertop version, and I just don't have the space.

I don't drink soda/soft drinks, and mainly drink water. Lived in places with bad water in the past and now I just have a hard time drinking straight from the tap...anywhere.

highland145 · May 11, 2024

Red Squirrel said:
Ours is not terrible but you do get a chlorine taste if you drink it straight from the tap. I installed an under sink filter system years back and it gets rid of that taste.

This on the chlorine and filter kit, Everpure H-300. Boss wants a better system because of her autoimmune issues.

Muse · May 30, 2024

East Bay Municipal Utility District water. Tastes OK to me. Their analysis always looks pristine when I look at it.

bbhaag · May 30, 2024

BoomerD said:
Oh hell no. Our tap water tastes horrid. I have 2 4"x20" "Big Blue" canister filters, one with a .5 micron pre-filter, the other with a carbon filter.

On the right is the .5 micron prefilter after almost 12 months...on the left, brand new. (In the back is the carbon filter.)

That looks awesome. Is this a whole house filtration system or just drinking water? I'm assuming by the size it is whole house.

If it is whole house I'd love to have a system like yours. A couple of years ago I hired a plumber to come and install a whole house filtration system and all he did was install a 10" single housing unit with a carbon block filter.

Lesson learned on that one but it still pisses me off.

Greenman · May 31, 2024

Muse said:
East Bay Municipal Utility District water. Tastes OK to me. Their analysis always looks pristine when I look at it.

East Bay Mud used to be the best water quality in the nation. A few years back they were going to bottle it and sell nationwide. That idea was nixed because of a rule that prevents them from selling water outside of their service area.

Micrornd · Jun 1, 2024

Greenman said:
East Bay Mud used to be the best water quality in the nation. A few years back they were going to bottle it and sell nationwide. That idea was nixed because of a rule that prevents them from selling water outside of their service area.

Is there no company/business in their district to sell it to.
City of Daytona Beach sells a lot of theirs to NASCAR, and they don't care where NASCAR resells it

Hotrod2go · Jun 22, 2024

In Northern Tasmania, boiled then cooled tap water tastes absolutely fantastic. This Island state has a reputation for clean air & water being so southerly to mainland Australia, its no wonder really. On the west coast they get the cleanest air in the world blowing up from Antarctica.

BoomerD · Jun 22, 2024

bbhaag said:
That looks awesome. Is this a whole house filtration system or just drinking water? I'm assuming by the size it is whole house.

If it is whole house I'd love to have a system like yours. A couple of years ago I hired a plumber to come and install a whole house filtration system and all he did was install a 10" single housing unit with a carbon block filter.

Lesson learned on that one but it still pisses me off.

Whole house. Does a decent job. Water still has a very high TDS...around 500ppm. Deionizing beads in water softeners like the ones made for rinsing cars don't last very long.

I'dluv2 · Jun 24, 2024

Water here is very hard, full of minerals. If you don't have a water softener all your faucets will be crusted with scale after a year. And everyone has a reverse osmosis system for drinking water. Or they take 5 gallon jugs to a fill station.

Ken g6 · Wednesday at 12:00 AM

Colorado water is good. Fresh from a mountain stream in some cases. Oddly, I don't like the taste of water from a carbon filter.

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