Does your water come from a well or a municipal water supply?

[Wcross]

Do you like the water?

[IndianaJones]

1. well....hate it. nt

[juno jones]

16. Me too.

It comes out greenish and stains the bathtub blue (I'm guessing high copper content, god knows what else). We are renting this place from one guy, and the well is actually the neighbor's. When we've brought it up, they both seem to think we're weird for even mentioning it. "Never noticed a problem," they say. Either they're ignorant or lie like rugs. We use filtered water for everything that we possibly can.

I can't wait to get out of here to a place with municipal water, which around here is at least drinkable, and not at all bluish.

[IndianaJones]

17. we buy our water....high iron in the well. I'd much rather be on city water. nt.

[chixydix]

2. Lots of municipal water comes from wells...

:shrug:

[Wcross]

10. It is most likely treated though.

I guess I should have asked if people paid water bills or not. Of course somebody would argue that paying to pump the water out is paying a bill..........

[MissB]

24. Not necessarily.

A more proper phrasing of the question would be private versus public.

There are a lot of public water systems that use wells exclusively, as opposed to surface water sources such as rivers or lakes. Most private (homes) water systems use wells.

My line of work and all that. :)

[frogcycle]

3. well

private well
iron filter
softener
carbon filter
reverse osmotic filter

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The water here is so bad

that, I have a neighbor that drunk the water here
for 14 years and her husband died of a strange liver cancer,
their dog just died of blood cancer and another neighbor
that lived here died of cancer.

We have 4 old oil sumps that were pointed out by the California Environmental agency
as a risk but said there is no health hazard.

I couldn't drink the water when I moved in being from Colorado
even making coffee that had a brita filter.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. OK Muni water, but I mostly drink water we distill.

We refill bottles. The brown residue at the bottom of the distiller after one gallon is enough to make you wonder.

(And don't give me the refilling plastic bottles is dangerous urban myth, I don't believe it.)

[TomInTib]

6. Recycled urine....

Just kidding.

I am north across the Bay from San Francisco and our tap water is better than that of NYC.

Better than just about anywhere.

[Wcross]

11. Mine comes from a well & I have never tasted better.

I live near the Jack Daniels distillery & enjoy the same water used to make the whiskey. I've tested it & it only has 56 parts per million solids.

[pbca]

7. I'm on a municipal line

and it's better than most bottled water (I've seen the test results)

...of course I'm in Canada

[mac2]

19. Hail Canada

I'm from Buffalo and miss going across the border to Toronto, etc. Both countries' citizens ran back and forth freely. Not sure how it is now.

[pbca]

30. There is still ALOT of traffic back and forth

but the * Admin. is trying to make it more difficult.

[Alexander]

8. Municipal water. Here in Phoenix, it's terrible. We had a contamination scare 3 years ago.

We were told to boil our water before we showered, brushed our teeth, etc. It was awful.

As it is, the water here tastes awful and leaves a white film on everything - mineral deposits.

[Ilsa]

9. Where's the beer in your poll?

:beer: :shrug:

Just askin'. Someone had to ask.

[margotb822]

14. Carbonated beverages n/t

[seabeyond]

12. i voted buy water, but not in bottles. i have a filter on tap so i dont have to

drink and it wont kill me.

our water here is so bad when you drink it the mouth gets dry.... dries ya out. oddest thing.

[margotb822]

13. I think someone managed to fart in

the San Diego water supply. That's what it tastes like to me. Good thing for Crystal Light. The water may still be killing me or maybe it's the nutrasweet, but I can't taste it...

[doc03]

15. I have a municipal water supply that comes

from wells, we have a new state of the art water plant and it is excellent.

[LeftyMom]

18. We have about eight skillion little water districts here in town.

This one has pretty good water.

The area in another part of town where I used to live? That stuff came from wells near old aerospace sites, and I bought filtered water religiously while I lived out there- even if it hasn't tasted horrible, I really wasn't confident that it was safe.

[tabasco]

20. A lot of iron in the water in WV.

Not supposed to be a health problem but it needs treated to remove the bad taste.

[unkachuck]

21. well....and it's not good....

....iron, sulfur odor, calcium/magnesium?....if left untreated, it's rusts faucets, fixtures, bowels, etc. not to mention my digestive track....

....the only positive thing about having this well, is if a disaster should occur and if we were to survive it and if we still had electrical power, maybe, just maybe, we'd have our delicious well-water available to drink....yummy

[BlooInBloo]

22. Huh. Looky at that. Even with a jillion categories, the majority is still fine with muni....

.... Dammit - another outrage attempt foiled again!

[Wcross]

34. Not an attempt at anything.

Where did you get that idea BlooInBloo? You seem to take this personally or something while it was intended as an innocent question. I'm on a well & would love to have access to a municipal water supply but there are no water lines where I live. I AM surprised at the number of people on a well who responded though, I thought the majority would be on public water.

[dysfunctional press]

23. we have a well, and a reverse-osmosis system for drinking water.

works great...but i miss the chicago city water- except for the bill.

[MissB]

25. Municipal surface water source- unfiltered.

One of the few in the country. Great drinking water. I've been fortunate to go all the way to the headwaters and take a look at where my water comes from. Federally protected watershed, and has been for many, many decades.

The water system does add chemicals for corrosion control and disinfectants (chlorine and ammonia to make chloramines). But it is unfiltered.

[Nicole]

26. Both

I use municipal water in the house. I use my well water for the garden, washing cars, etc.


Both are fine.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Anchorage municipal water tastes great

and it's ice cold out of the tap.

[Kitty Herder]

28. Municipal. It's fine in the winter, But in the summer, it tastes like water from a fish tank.

But they assure us it's safe. I use one of those filter you attach to the tap, and that makes it bearable.

[Broken_Hero]

29. on a well,

water is excellent, only because we dished out 5k on a water filtration system....before the filter system, the water was only good enough for toilet use, a lot of sulphur...tons of it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

31. I have a well

and all of my water goes through a filter .I wouldn't drink that crap unfiltered on a bet. I also had to invest in a water softner because the water made my clothes yellow.

[Wcross]

32. I had a well when I rented like that.

I couldn't boil anything without a heavy cake of lime building up on my cookware.

[bigwillq]

33. Municipal water, acceptable (nt)