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RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled?

Comment comment by Brandon on 25 December 2007

We use Brita filters at home, and they have Ozarka bottled water at work.

Speaking of filters, when I was in college, some friends and I decided to do a filtered water taste test. We pitted Brita-filtered, Pure-filtered and College Station, TX tap water against each other in a line-up. After being taste-ranked by 5-7 people, Brita was the clear winner and tap water came in last.

The most surprising thing, to me, was how different the tastes were. Well, that and the fact that come people ranked tap water higher than the Pure-filtered water.

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RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by scottb :: NR7

There's quite a wide range of quality in community tap water. I recall College Station as being relatively nasty tasting.

Some cities, like New York, have surprisingly good quality water coming right out of the tap. Something like 90% of the city's drinking water comes from reservoirs fed from the Catskill/Delaware watersheds, and is mostly on protected land owned by the city. As a result, they need to do very little processing to get very high quality water throughout the city.

Here in DC, I use a filter on the tap. The southern end of the city, and its 'burbs, where I live, is mostly re-claimed swampland. The system is pretty old, and needs improvements, and we had some lead-contamination scares in the past few years, so it seems like it's prudent, even if I didn't think the filtered stuff tasted better.

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