What's your town/city's water like?

[Lurker]

What's your town/city's water like?

Wet... really, really wet!!

[Trebuchet]

The water's great - its just all the lead pipes fokes hab a prolem wid... wha the queshion again?

About 25 years ago, this town had a project to replace its wooden pipes! Cedar. They were still in good shape, about 100 years old.

[Maksutov]

About 25 years ago, this town had a project to replace its wooden pipes! Cedar. They were still in good shape, about 100 years old.

Why was it decided to replace them? Gerbil infestation?

[Whirlpool]

lovely and chunky

Icey....coldy...bricky....water....

[mfumbesi]

One of the best in the world.
Better than most bottled still water.

[Neverfly]

Icy cold, fizzy and delicious.

No...

wait...

I've been drinking Dr Pepper.

[dappyhaze]

I've long been interested in water quality. I do not drink the tap water where I live. Outside NYC (and w/o a darn good reason!), I don't drink municipal water. I buy distilled and use sea salt, supplements and a good diet for mineral intake. I even use distilled for making coffee (better coffee, too!).

My water, usually heavy in chlorine (~75%), at times smells like a fish aquarium (~20%) but will sometimes have no odor (~5%). Due to the smell, I've never tasted it. I believe it comes out of the Toccoa River just before crossing the line from GA into TN, where it's renamed the Ocoee - but I can't prove that. (grin)

I think the chlorine may be heavy because I'm at the end of a supply line, at the highest point in the system, and I figure the chlorine 'out-gasses' and tries to reach the top. That's a guess, too.

The absolute best water I ever had was from a natural artesian spring up a nearby mountain top here in North GA. A very close second was NYC.

The absolute worst (by far) was Jacksonville, FL. It felt like taking a shower in diesel fuel, and smelled like a cross between very heavy sulfur, and decomposing rodents. But of course, it had to compete with the paper processing plant a couple miles upwind of me. Ughhh. I lived there (briefly!) in Spring 1983, and to this day ('07), I am still nauseous every morning.

--Tom

[Lianachan]

Beautiful, crisp, clear, cold, pure and abundant.

(edited afterthought - I had really good water from a natural spring in the mountains in Crete last year, filled several bottles. A drop or two in my quarter cask Laphraoig was lovely)