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Poll: how do you rate your local water?

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  • 10

    Votes: 17 26.2%

  • 9

    Votes: 12 18.5%

  • 8

    Votes: 7 10.8%

  • 7

    Votes: 7 10.8%

  • 5

    Votes: 5 7.7%

  • 4

    Votes: 4 6.2%

  • 3

    Votes: 4 6.2%

  • 2

    Votes: 2 3.1%

  • 1

    Votes: 7 10.8%
  • Total voters
    65
QChawks

QChawks

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Feb 11, 2013
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During a zoom yesterday I learned many of my co-workers around the country don’t drink their local tap water, which is strange to me as I really like Davenport’s.

So what do you rate your municipal water (or well) water?

Scale
10 = drink daily, enjoy the taste
1 = avoid at all costs, only bottled water for consumption
 
QChawks said:
During a zoom yesterday I learned many of my co-workers around the country don’t drink their local tap water, which is strange to me as I really like Davenport’s.

So what do you rate your municipal water (or well) water?

Scale
10 = drink daily, enjoy the taste
1 = avoid at all costs, only bottled water for consumption
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It is funny what you get used to. Lived in Bettendorf and thought the water was fine. Now when I visit 20+ years later I think it tastes like chlorine. I assume it is the same source for Davenport. Des Moines/ankeny tastes like it should: nothing
 
My tap water is, IMO, very good. I gave it a 9. The source of Zephyrhills Bottled Water (now owned by Nestle) is about 9 miles away.

I drink a good bit of tap water every day. Very rarely do I drink bottled water - mostly only when in the car or at one of the boys’ games.
 
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Tenacious E said:
Maybe it’s where we vacation but water along the gulf south of Tampa tastes like brackish shitwater. Vile.
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It’s a state wide problem from what I gather. I live in st Pete beach and I won’t drink from the tap.
 
Thanks to my neighbors’ (and their neighbors’) farming practices, my well water is unfit for drinking. While they receive checks from the government to poison my water, I will have to shell out about $23,000 of my own money to drill another well that is deeper than they have been able to poison—yet.

The water I buy from the store tastes great.
 
Kakaw83 said:
It’s a state wide problem from what I gather. I live in st Pete beach and I won’t drink from the tap.
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You gather wrong. The water in the center of the state, where there are a number of springs, is quite good.
 
Well water that passes through two Big Blue filters down to 1 micron, then through the fridge charcoal filter...it’s delicious.
 
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SeaPA said:
You gather wrong. The water in the center of the state, where there are a number of springs, is quite good.
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Ok, I’ll admit I don’t know much about the center of the state as it sucks, lol.
 
Both homes have whole house drinking systems and the CA home also has whole house filtration.

Growing up on the farm, I loved the taste of well water.
 
I don’t like the taste of Coralville tap water, so I have a filtration system. I think Iowa City water tastes somewhat better.
 
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QChawks said:
During a zoom yesterday I learned many of my co-workers around the country don’t drink their local tap water, which is strange to me as I really like Davenport’s.

So what do you rate your municipal water (or well) water?

Scale
10 = drink daily, enjoy the taste
1 = avoid at all costs, only bottled water for consumption
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Bad news for ya - Quad Cities is on a list for having among the most carcinogen-laden public water supply in the country. I’ll look for the link.
 
Our tap water is pretty good but I still run it through our Berkey filter before drinking it or cooking with it.
 
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It's not quite as good as when I was on well water, but it's pretty good. Good enough where I've got no need for bottled water.
 
As a kid I lived on well water far out in Dallas County and it was God’s sweat that I drank and bathed in and it was tremendous.

Today - I drink tap water that goes through my RO system.

FWIW - Iowa City water 25 years ago was surprisingly good.
 
Cedar Rapids I gave an 8. Perfectly fine tasting water. My best friend (see blow) says it's the best tap water he's ever drank.

My well water near Guttenberg, I do not drink. I've had it tested (best friend is in the wastewater treatment business)...too much farm runoff in it although others that live/camp up there drink it.

I will add, the granddaughter (age 17) of the one permanent resident at my campground (she grew up there) is currently in hospice for cancer. Now, one can never truly know the cause...but I knew in the early 90's to stop drinking it.

My buddy says says it's perfectly fine for showering, cleaning, teeth brushing, etc. Just doesn't advise drinking it. As a result, I haul CR tap water up there. Ain't taking any chances and it's easy to do.
 
bagdropper said:
Cedar Rapids I gave an 8. Perfectly fine tasting water. My best friend (see blow) says it's the best tap water he's ever drank.

My well water near Guttenberg, I do not drink. I've had it tested (best friend is in the wastewater treatment business)...too much farm runoff in it although others that live/camp up there drink it.

I will add, the granddaughter (age 17) of the one permanent resident at my campground (she grew up there) is currently in hospice for cancer. Now, one can never truly know the cause...but I knew in the early 90's to stop drinking it.

My buddy says says it's perfectly fine for showering, cleaning, teeth brushing, etc. Just doesn't advise drinking it. As a result, I haul CR tap water up there. Ain't taking any chances and it's easy to do.
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CR does have really good tap water.

DFW, specifically Plano/Richardson, has nasty stuff.
 
We lived for a couple of years in a brand new high rise on the Las Vegas Strip. We were the first tenants, but the unit has been empty for about nine months, meaning the water pipes had not been cleared/flushed in nearly a year.

We did not use the bathtub in the second bathroom for a few weeks and discovered that the faucet did not work. It turned out that the water had calcified somehow in the faucet assembly and clogged it up.

The water in this town is nasty. It corrodes the pipes and rots that PVC stuff as well. You constantly hear stories of bursting pipes.

There is no way you can drink it.
 
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Love this. When I was a kid I spent some time over several years at the U of I Clinics or an eye defect. My ophthalmologist was genius and ended up at Johns Hopkins as head of his dept, BTW. I still recall how bad the water was in IC.
 
bagdropper said:
Cedar Rapids I gave an 8. Perfectly fine tasting water. My best friend (see blow) says it's the best tap water he's ever drank.

My well water near Guttenberg, I do not drink. I've had it tested (best friend is in the wastewater treatment business)...too much farm runoff in it although others that live/camp up there drink it.

I will add, the granddaughter (age 17) of the one permanent resident at my campground (she grew up there) is currently in hospice for cancer. Now, one can never truly know the cause...but I knew in the early 90's to stop drinking it.

My buddy says says it's perfectly fine for showering, cleaning, teeth brushing, etc. Just doesn't advise drinking it. As a result, I haul CR tap water up there. Ain't taking any chances and it's easy to do.
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I’m pulling a Lute here...
The City of Cedar Rapids obtains its drinking water supplies from shallow vertical and collector wells constructed in the sand and gravel deposits along the Cedar River. Those deposits form an underground water-bearing layer called an alluvial aquifer.

Most the good stuff comes from aquifers, and bad stuff directly from a body of water, IMO.
 
We have a well that tastes great, but have to use a filter for clay particulates.
The two municipalities that I often drink from have very good water. Asheville and Waynesville, NC both have watersheds encompassing many thousands of high elevation acres. Water is damned up and pulled for use just above the dams.

https://ctnc.org/clean-water-from-land-to-your-glass/

“We know that it’s far more cost-effective to keep drinking water supplies clean by safeguarding land within the watershed, rather than cleaning up pollution downstream,” Galloway said. “This project is a great example of public and private partners working together – persistently and cooperatively – to overcome obstacles and leverage their resources for the good of our citizens.”


Partners in the watershed protection project enjoy a site visit. Thanks to long-standing efforts to protect the streams and underground springs that feed the reservoir, the Waynesville Watershed has earned the highest quality ranking the state can assign a drinking water source. The forested, undeveloped land is also able to efficiently trap rainfall to gradually fill the reservoir, meaning the town’s water supply is particularly resilient to extended droughts.
 
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