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by | Virtually zero | |
| About a glass | |
| 1-3 glasses | |
| 4-5 glasses | |
| Nearly a gallon | |
| I live in the bathroom |
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Speaking of strange water, I recall the water in Savannah and Hinesville had a peculiar odor to it. Everything out of the tap smelled funny. At first, I thought it was the dump motel I was living in but then it turned up in restaurants, at the base and other surrounding establishments. Even the showers smelled. I found the only way I could drink it was to filter it and flavor it up with Gatorade powder to make it smell nicer.
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Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 25 December 2007
Generally ... tap water suits me just fine though running it through a Brita filter doesn't hurt.
RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by Brandon :: NR9 :: 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.
RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by scottb :: NR7 :: on 27 December 2007
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.
RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by Brandon :: NR9 :: on 27 December 2007
Even more than the taste, my most prevalent memory of the College Station water is it wouldn't rinse the flipping soap off. I swear my showers (and hand washings) in Houston take half the time...
RE: Tap, Filtered or Bottled? by scottb :: NR7 :: on 27 December 2007
Yeah, College Station has very "soft" water, with a very high sodium content. It makes soaps lather better, but harder to rinse off. Unfortunately, filters won't do anything for that problem. The only real option is reverse osmosis - or use less soap.