Water Supply

[supersurgilator]

I was just wondering if any of you have your own well or if you are on the city/municipal water supply? We have city water here and it is alright, it is hard, but you can't smell the chlorine in it. We still run it through a Pur water filter before drinking it.

 

[DADoES]

 
Private well and septic systems.

 

[xraytech]

we have a well here also

 

[yogitunes]

well, with water softner, and pH tank

septic for waste

 

[jeffg]

During the year we have two water sources, both municipal. From November to May it's a local reservoir (local rain and occasional snow runoff, great quality), but from June to October they switch us to the same supply as Santa Cruz's, which is putrid by comparison. Very hard and smells like pond water.

 

[maytagbear]

City water

from an aquifer. One of the best municipal water supplies in the country.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[mpatoray]

City water, comes form a lake down the street, some mornings smells like a pool, others like fish...

Had an old well but the pump failed and the well would need relined and the new pump installed, we only used it for watering plants.

 

[blackstone]

Springfield, Mass., also has one of the best fresh water supplies. No fluoride, no chlorine smell, always clear.

 

[circlew]

City water here. Won't drink it, as it has foul odor. At times I've run water in sink, and chlorine smell is so strong I wonder if I've poured Clorox in it. It also leaves film on everything.

 

[whirlcool]

We have well water here, but it is moderately hard and after using it, the room smells like somebody poured a bottle of Chlorox on the floor. We have a reverse osmosis filter in the kitchen and those charcoal chlorine removing filters on our showers. Since I have been using these I don't get winter itch as bad as I used to.

 

[sudsmaster]

The water here is mostly from the EBMUD's reservoirs on the Mokolume River, which is a bit north of Yosemite, where SF gets its water. I don't think it's quite as good as SF water, but very close. Other localities to the north, south, or east may get water mixed with Delta water or well water, and some of it is pretty bad tasting.

I also have a well on the property but the water is not potable. It's fine for irrigation, though.

 

[mielabor]

As mentioned in the hard water thread, the main source for the Amsterdam municipal water is the river Rhine. It's ok for drinking and washing. Amsterdam uses ozone instead of chlorine so the taste is good. I never use bottled water.

It is said that the best water is found in the province of Utrecht. Here the source is rain water that has been filtered through the soil, a process that takes many centuries! This water is also bottled and sold to the rest of the country that does not get it from the tap.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Municipal water from the county. Most don't drink it; suspected as full of carcinogens, tastes like grandma's dirty panties when used to make tea.

Water on Long island comes from the ground. Inground fuel-oil and gasoline stoarge tanks are now very old and may be leaking. (The population explosion on L.I. began in 1945-ish). NYC water [three block away] is delicious, clean soft and comes from the mountains upstate.

NYC has LOWER cancer rates than L.I.
Three possbile causes.

1- water
2- Electrical high-tension and other wires MUST, by law, be buried in NYC.
3- Use of Romex (plastic-sheathed electrical wires) is abundant on L.I. NYC had Bx (Metal-sheathed electrical wires.

Thge law recently changed. (Actually laws on the city level are called ordinances) allowing Romex in NYC in cetain places.

 

[countryguy]

Well and septic system. The water has a sulphur odour which varies depending on the time of the year. I've pretty well gotten used to it but when other people use the water they notice it right away. The water is safe to drink but I use a Brita filter just to get rid of the sulphur odour. A couple years ago I had a water treatment company test the water and provide a quote for what would be required to remove the odour. It was going to cost over $4000 so I said no, I would live with the odour.

Gary

 

[turquoisedude]

Well and a brand-new septic system in Ogden

We have a well and it seems to have a fantastic output - we have never run out of water like we did in our previous homes up in the Laurentians!
We noticed a sulfur odor on the hot water when we first moved in; we did buy a water softener, but the guy who installed the system removed some rod from our hot water tank and the sulfur odor vanished.
We are also lucky enough to have a gravity fed supply from a spring on the hill above the house - it can actually supply enough running water to the house in the event of a power outage.

 

[MrX]

Our water is from the city's system here in Cork in Ireland. Originally our area was served by a smaller treatment plant which sourced its water from an aquifer, but in recent years we've been connected to one of the city's main treatment facilities.

The city's water comes from two treatment plants up-stream on the River Lee. While the water is very soft, I find it can be chlorinated to an almost unpleasant level. You certainly get that faint whiff of mild bleach / swimming pool when you turn on the shower.

Water supplies here are also fluoridated, much like the United States which is unusual in a European context and very controversial.

We have even had Supreme Court cases taken against the state on the grounds that fluoridation is mass-medication and a breech of the constitutional right to bodily integrity !

Recently the EU has ruled that fluoridated water should be classified as a 'functional food / medicine'. This has complicated things quite a lot in Ireland as it means that it cannot be used as a food ingredient once the legislation comes into effect.

So, I suspect that we will fall into line with the rest of the EU and stop fluoridating water supplies.

There is more than sufficient fluoride in toothpaste to have a positive impact on your teeth. Ingesting fluoride isn't really necessary.

 

[petek]

City water here right out of Lake Huron, treated of course. We had a well and septic system in our last house. It had a slight sulfur smell and was full o iron. Having an iron filter resolved both those problems. An iron filter "looks" much like a water softener except you don't add salt.. the second tank is full of some type of mineral that absorbs iron as the water passes thru it. It then gets backflushed per your programming to clean it