Halifax is actually quite good/consistent. Little bit of a chlorine tang/smell...but other than that....
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Halifax is actually quite good/consistent. Little bit of a chlorine tang/smell...but other than that....
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Currently a minor biohazard, and has been probably since around april. The official advice is either drink bottled or boil 'til kingdom come. Other than that it's grandOriginally Posted by banquo's_bumble_puppy
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My town has well water. Its quality varies with the seasons, as does the amount of chlorination used. Most times the chlorine is barely noticable.
In past years, it had one serious problem: high metal content (copper and iron) that would stain clothes brown over time and repeated washings. The new utility owner seems to have reduced this problem significantly. I don't know if they're treating, filtering, or simply not using the more problematic wells.
Interestingly, the problem seemed to abate at the same time that they stopped using one of the wells due to benzene contamination. They have since brought that well back online, but the staining has not returned.
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Hard water here.
We all have bones stronger than concrete from all the Calcium content. The local sport is to Jump off buildings and see who makes the deepest crater.
Halifax eh? I was doing a lot of calling to Halifax. My phone company kept overcharging me. Double charging actually. Maybe it was something in the water.
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is that Halifax, Nova Scotia, or?
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In these parts, bottled water may be worse.
Definitely better than Fiji bottled water.
In fact, better than about a quarter of those tested.
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Our city water is okay. I grew up in a house with it's own well, and so I'm use to hard water. My g/f won't drink it without it going through the Brita filter first; but I have no problem with it.
Here at the office it's a different story, although it's only three blocks away and is the same utility provider (city). Here the water is cloudy, with little specs floating in it. Since it's fine at home and not here, it leads me to believe our pipes are just old and gunky. I think it [the water] tastes awful, although I cannot garuntee I've ever been brave enough to try it. I use it to make coffee though; gets heated enough that I don't worry about it.
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Well, would you look at that! I went looking for an official article to link as a post script to my previous post and it turns out we got an all-clear as off today. I dunno how much I trust it personally as yet but fingers crossed. I am speaking of Galway, Ireland, by the way.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0820/galway.html?rss
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My friend lives within 20 minutes of me, but it's a tiny middle-of-nowhere town. Anyway, the occassionally get notices on their door from the city saying "It is now safe to drink your water". The funny thing is, they never get a notice that it wasn't safe. After the first one or two of those, they no longer drink their tap water, particularly since they now have a baby.
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Our city water makes an excellent ice tea (and I'm very particular about my tea)...it also comes out of the tap ice cold.
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Yes. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Have beautifuls Photos from there...
They moved away - providing me considerable relief on my phone bill- and NOW im calling Alberta.
Oh well.
Incidently- On the next bill after that- I recieved a full amount of oops charges credited back to my account along with sincere apolgies for the glitch- The phone company had corrected it (after 6 months of fighting)
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I can see their point. There has been a suspected but unconfirmed fatality, or two. I am not even going to comment on this darling government of ours that allows these things to happen in what is supposed to be a developed country...But then I suppose they're too busy prosecuting the county Mayo farmers who had a problem with the fairly dangerous high pressure oil pipeline in Rossport and on the coast around there, being built by Shell to worry about little things like drinking water. I mean, a town of population 300 hundred (I think) really needs around 3 times as many gardai (police, and in this case mostly thugs from the sound of it) to try prevent the local population rioting. Oops, I just broke the no comment stance, didn't I?
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And without using teabags?
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Tastes like, well, water (pun intended).
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The local water here is very good. Especially now that they got the asbestos out of it 25 or 30 years ago. They were required to build a filtration plant, not because of the (naturally occuring) asbestos, but because of the general turbidity from logging activity around the reservoir. The city owns the reservoir (Spada Lake, WA), but not the watershed.
Tacoma, where my parents live, has really excellent water. They do own their watershed. The Northern Pacific railroad used to have to lock the toilet doors on their passenger trains as they passed through. (Before holding tanks, of course -- they just dumped it on the tracks!)
On the other hand, our vacation home is on a community water supply serving about 200 homes. It's safe enough, but tastes pretty bad and has a lot of minerals. We use bottled water and/or a Britta filter.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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Albuquerque still gets most of its water from the aquafer under the city (but soon it will be getting some from the Rio Grande). Our water is hard, clear, and tested safe, and I think it's great right from the tap, but my wife still likes it filtered.
There was one bottled water company who, at one time, *proudly* proclaimed on their bottles: "source: Albuquerque City Water", but I can't remember which brand. I remember when I saw that for the first time I laughed, because I could get 100s and 100s of gallons of it for about $30/month.
The only better water I've had (and by far the best) is Spokane, WA. (USA) water, which comes from a continually replenished underground river with its source in some small mountiain range in northern Idaho.
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Our water is a little on the hard side, but I brush my teeth with it and good without incident. I rarely drink straight tap water anywhere.
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Usually cut it with whiskey, or gin?
Sorry...something about "straight tap water" struck me as funny, even though it's accurate. I'll go back to my corner now...
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The closest I get to "tap water" at home is the meltwater from the ice cube maker in my refrigerator or from tea made with it.
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We have well water and aside from the mineral content it's fine. On the other hand, I can grow my own travertine in the toilet bowls.
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The tap water I've had since moving to the South has invariably been heavily chlorinated, and, nevertheless, loaded with organics. This shows up in various water-using appliances as a mossy build-up if one doesn't clean them every few days.
My last house in Connecticut had well water. It was very cold and clear, and very nice, coming from deep in a New London granite gneiss formation.
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New York/New England, with all that Canadian Shield granite, have great water. NYC tap water is the best I've ever had, anywhere.
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Our water is off the Moors, it's lovely and soft and peaty, I sail in the reservoir that holds it lol.
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In this side of the planet.. our tap water is ok for drinking ....
But .. I was used to drinking filtered water ....
And we have problems too on water supply .. especially during summer months..
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It tastes alright after going through 5 stages of filtration in my house.
Not to mention the ceramic nano-technology thing...
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Disappearing.
Well, while not quite that bad, yet, we're 14 inches below the normal precipitation amount. We're starting to set records for the driest months, 0.05in for July (the previous record low rainfall was 0.51in). One town nearby (know for its pompous residents) has sent threatening letters to a couple hundred residents that if they don't turn off their automatic lawn sprinklers, the city will do it for them ... by turning off the supply to the entire house.
I too grew up on well water. Then a gas prospecting company sank a well on the back side of our property and didn't find anything. However, sulfur still contaminates the water 20 years later. You'd take a shower only to end up smelling worse than before you got in.
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Cold, wet, & refreshing. Comes from a hole in the ground next to the house. The pipe goes 80' down, the water level is at about 60'.
Strikes me as a bit odd, because the stream behind the house is only about 30' below the ground level of where the well is drilled.
How come the water level in the well isn't just 30' down? Why doesn't the stream represent the water table?
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It might be easier to show you.
I found this picture to illustrate.
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The water's great - its just all the lead pipes fokes hab a prolem wid... wha the queshion again?
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