Water Quality - Do you use a Water Filter device?

[Whiskey 7]

Question if I may and any response welcome

I appreciate you people are all over the world so I start the debate on water quality, specifically do you use a water filter device on your mains supply?

There has been some concerns locally about the addition of fluoride to the city drinking water supply and lots of argument both ways, but my concern is the other stuff you don't see and my general water quality.

How's yours? Considered an after market filter?

Stuff like,



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I am considering the cheap option firstly before outlaying the big bucks, something like this ............. ...................


I am not really interested in the single jug options (below) as I figure I can always buy bottled water



Discuss.

[mjrpes]

Municipal water is very safe. I have a Brita fitler anyway because water here has a slight algae taste that I don't like.

[o'dium]

We had one installed on our fridge that pumps out cold water and ice, and I use it all the time now. Can't stand the taste of out the tap water these days, it just tastes too... Odd...

[Fender]

summary: http://www.ci.akron.oh.us/PubUtil/pdf/2 ... Report.pdf
detail: http://www.ci.akron.oh.us/PubUtil/pdf/2 ... rtests.pdf

we still use an after market filter in our fridge

[scared?]

we had to get one cuz the water in this backwater town tastes like ass. they soften it for some reason too...

[MKJ]

i killed ur dad and fuck u...

[Underpants?]

we've used filtered water for the past 8 years. Past mining and present agriculture leaves it's mark on above and belowground resources in this state.

[Dr_Watson]

our pipes impart an odd hard-water sediment into our water so we have a Clear2O pitcher. (which totally rocks, Brita pitchers take way to fucking long to drip)

[scared?]

lol u have the patience of a 2 year old...

[Dr_Watson]

only a tool waits for gravity when you don't have to.

[obsidian]

The taps are fine here.

[Grudge]

no filters needed here

[kôrupt]

pussies tap water is fine

[ToxicBug]

Tap water is alright here. The taste isn't awesome however. I used to buy 20L bottles for the water cooler, but at this point it's a bitch carrying them and we run out of bottled water quickly.

downtown Montreal, QC, Canada

[Underpants?]

pussies tap water is fine

a while back i heard that tap water was actually found to have healthier (lower) levels of many harmful contaminates, including sulfates over bottled water when compared vs. several big city municipalities. That doesn't mean that filtering is necessarily a waste of time.

some interesting reads:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87558&page=1
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/ ... -of-purity
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/health/sto ... r-than-tap
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/consu ... water.html

[plained]

tap water ? pppffftt


i take tap water and PUT dirt and stuff right in there!

[EtUL]

Never did, then got a fridge with ice/water so of course a filter goes in line. I'm in Northern Kentucky and our water is pretty damn good imo, there's is a small difference i can taste between the water from the fridge and right from the tap, but it's negligable. Never had a problem with the tap water, and I wouldn't be surprised if the taste difference was more due to 80 year old plumbing.

[MKJ]

tapwater is checked and brought up to standards twice a day here (my ex gf's job.. very exciting :s ).
im not worried

[surgeon62]

Our tap water's OK... we have the Brita jug that the wife & kids use, but I just drink tap. However, the ice made in our refrigerator has a strange chemical taste to it, which is kind of disturbing.

[xer0s]

The water tastes good here. Although, I've wanted to get a filtering system for some time now, mainly because some impurities can't be tasted and ya never know.

I too, like Underpants, had read somewhere in the past that most tap water is just as healthy, if not healthier, than bottled water. Plus like Memph said, you need a few germs every now and then as long as it's nothing too unhealthy...

[vesp]

pussies. your immune systems are going to be useless. get some germy shit in you

damn straight. (although where we are most of the water comes from highland reservoirs)

[Survivor]

Water quality is excellent here like mkj says. Only thing which changed in the past few years for me locally is they placed some sort of softening plant nearby to get rid of a lot of calcium in the water here, it improved taste even more but it wasn't even that bad to begin with. I think noone around here drinks out of bottles unless they simply cannot easily get to a tap like when camping or sporting.

[Whiskey 7]

Thanks Fender and Underpants for the links - Lots of reading to do

Thanks to all for your replies

[tnf]

We have very clean tapwater here - as for the immune issue, drinking filtered water isn't going to dumb down your immune system - you are exposed to enough shit (literally) even with sterile water. I do use a Brita jug with a charcaol filter just because I like really cold water and figured if its going to be in the fridge anyhow, another filtration step can't hurt - but I don't consider the filtration some sort of necessity and have no problem drinking tapwater.
Western side of the state has water that tastes like ass though, IMO.

What drives me nuts is water that is too hard...my in-laws get their water from a natural well and it has a shitload of minerals in it. Makes it suck for everything.

In regards to the fluoride debate, I've never been too concerned about the addition of it to the water, but I'd rather not have it there if I had the choice.

[Peenyuh]

You did NOT cap on the Real Wa's water!

Ass? Eastern Wa looks and smells like ass!

You have my vote for secession.