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How much thought/money do you put into the water you drink?
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I studied mine in university. Tap water all the way! My city is in the top 2 in my country for water quality.0
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The water in my house is triple filtered, it taste better than bottled water, even the spring kind.
Filter changed every four to six months0 -
House water is well water that has been softened and filtered. I also have RO/DI, but only use that for my fish. I typically drink bottled, but regardless, I don't drink enough water for it to matter.
Back when I moved into the house, the water testing showed off-the-charts high lvls of iron, thus the whole-house filtration. I haven't looked at the numbers in a long time though, so I don't know how good my water is these days.
Clean eating is low on my list of priorities. Clean drinking is even lower.0 -
What is RO?
We drink a combination of filtered and bottled water. The bottled water is a necessity because our cats are jerks and I have a thyroid med to take before I get up.0 -
I add whiskey to mine and I am good.0
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We drink creek water.....no filter, no testing! Our water is tannin stained so it's a brown color, the cows poo in it lol, animals drink from it and yup we drink it!......we also have very strong tummies and excellent immune systems.....ours kids have only had gastro once in there lives (as young kids when we were living in city) even when gastro and bugs go around school the kids don't pick them up! We think it's because they are exposed to the bugs and it's enough to build up our immune systems! We do buy bottles water if we are staying in the city because we can't handle the taste and smell of the chlorine!0
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summerkissed wrote: »We drink creek water.....no filter, no testing! Our water is tannin stained so it's a brown color, the cows poo in it lol, animals drink from it and yup we drink it!......we also have very strong tummies and excellent immune systems.....ours kids have only had gastro once in there lives (as young kids when we were living in city) even when gastro and bugs go around school the kids don't pick them up! We think it's because they are exposed to the bugs and it's enough to build up our immune systems! We do buy bottles water if we are staying in the city because we can't handle the taste and smell of the chlorine!
Wow
You know there's a campaign called Water Aid that fights hard to raise money to protect people in the third world from having to drink dirty water that animals defecate in0 -
summerkissed wrote: »We drink creek water.....no filter, no testing! Our water is tannin stained so it's a brown color, the cows poo in it lol, animals drink from it and yup we drink it!......we also have very strong tummies and excellent immune systems.....ours kids have only had gastro once in there lives (as young kids when we were living in city) even when gastro and bugs go around school the kids don't pick them up! We think it's because they are exposed to the bugs and it's enough to build up our immune systems! We do buy bottles water if we are staying in the city because we can't handle the taste and smell of the chlorine!
Wow
You know there's a campaign called Water Aid that fights hard to raise money to protect people in the third world from having to drink dirty water that animals defecate in
Huhm, both abs make a compelling case, but I think I'd go with filtered water.0 -
summerkissed wrote: »We drink creek water.....no filter, no testing! Our water is tannin stained so it's a brown color, the cows poo in it lol, animals drink from it and yup we drink it!......we also have very strong tummies and excellent immune systems.....ours kids have only had gastro once in there lives (as young kids when we were living in city) even when gastro and bugs go around school the kids don't pick them up! We think it's because they are exposed to the bugs and it's enough to build up our immune systems! We do buy bottles water if we are staying in the city because we can't handle the taste and smell of the chlorine!
Wow
You know there's a campaign called Water Aid that fights hard to raise money to protect people in the third world from having to drink dirty water that animals defecate in
You mean they have clean water over there?? Here I was thinking the water was filthy with human waste, rubbish due to unsanitary living conditions if I knew it was only the odd cow poop and kangaroo poo I'd never give them money!0 -
The point I'm making is humans shouldn't be drinking water that animals defecate in without filtering0
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I use personal distiller and drink purest water possible. Would not drink store-bought didtilled water stored in those funky plastic milk jugs. That water tastes terrible. I use distilled water for other purposes, so might as well distill enough to drink. Also make ice cubes from it instead of auto ice maker.0
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Our well was tested when we bought our house 10 years ago and met the criteria for safety. I haven't considered testing it again. My "city friend" told me that our water tastes sweet. I figured that was better than "sour."0
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I lived through the cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee many years ago. SE Wisconsin cities have some of the safest tap water because of the upgrades they did as a result. On the other hand, it doesn't taste the best because of the chlorine and chloramine used. I have a 1 gallon Pur filter dispenser that stays in my fridge. Except the cost of the dispenser, I spend about $5 per 2 months on new filters. I have no need to spend anything more on water.0
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I drink it straight from the tap and don't give it a second thought. But I also grew up in a time when all kids drank water from garden hoses, long before the fearmongering about that practice began. I guess because they never told us we could die from it, none of us ever did.0
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Where I live, they are always announcing "boil water" notices on the 6 PM news for various areas of the state. That usually means the bacteria count from coming from sewage treatment plant is too high to be safe by government regulations. Happens so regularly, I won't drink tap water.0
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I've got 3 spigots. Regular tap water for dishes, Unsoftened & filtered water for drinking, and reverse osmosis water for tea, ice cubes & coffee.0
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summerkissed wrote: »We drink creek water.....no filter, no testing! Our water is tannin stained so it's a brown color, the cows poo in it lol, animals drink from it and yup we drink it!......we also have very strong tummies and excellent immune systems.....ours kids have only had gastro once in there lives (as young kids when we were living in city) even when gastro and bugs go around school the kids don't pick them up! We think it's because they are exposed to the bugs and it's enough to build up our immune systems! We do buy bottles water if we are staying in the city because we can't handle the taste and smell of the chlorine!
wtf????0 -
Water is water. Unless it's coffee. Usually, for me, it's coffee.
I've probably added two pounds to my weight in just absorbed lead and cadmium, still don't care.0 -
We have a water cooler at home and at work. At work we get RO water delivered, but at home we refill the 5 gallon bottles at the grocery store RO station because its cheaper. I've moved around a lot, and tap water is always a little different everywhere you go. I don't think there's anything unhealthy about tap, but I prefer the consistency of my RO.0
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