Water…what are you drinking?

Rick Meyer

Rick Meyer

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I always like to combine my own research with the advice on this forum…

I recently moved from upstate New York where the tap water was clean, pure and delicious. You coulda bottled that stuff and sold it. Here in Cali…I’ve got hard, funny-tasting water. Currently, I am buying several 2.5 gallon jugs every weekend which is annoying but currently necessary.

I am thinking of calling the Culligan Man. The price is nearly the same and they will do all the lugging. But, I was also considering plunking down money on a Brita Filter. But there are all sorts from pitchers to faucet mounts etc.

Anyone have one of these? Or another solution?
 
Been using a Pur pitcher around $20 and using Dupont replacement filters $6 that are 4 stage compared to the Pur 2 stage and are half the price plus are rated for more gallons of filtering over the Pur filters. Works well for me.
 
I've been using a Pur filter as well. The first one lasted maybe a month, but this one we're on now has held out a good 6 months or so without the orange bar telling us it's going bad. Maybe we have better water where we moved to, so we don't have to purify as much.
 
Thanks for the info guys.

Matt...how often you need to change the filters? And, are those pitchers still a hassle and very slow or have they improved on them? A couple of years ago my brother had a pitcher and it took forever for the water to filter down into the bottom of the canister.
 
when you put a new filter in the pitcher it does take a while for the water to drain thru. after a while it filters much faster but i usually just refill when its about half empty so to always have water in the pitcher.

we usually change the filter about every 2 months or so. at only $5.50 for a filter at wal-mart it makes sense as we would spend much more than that on bottled water every month.
 
I just can't stand the test of tap water outside of New York City. New York water is the best tasting water anywhere in the world. Since leaving New York I have not drunk from the tap.
 
mjjason said:
I just can't stand the test of tap water outside of New York City. New York water is the best tasting water anywhere in the world. Since leaving New York I have not drunk from the tap.
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Tell me about it. I moved from the Hudson Valley (about 85-90 miles north of NYC) and the water was special. Not every town up there has fantastic water because a lot of people have their own wells. But when its good, its perfect.
 
Filters like Brita help taste and remove minerals, but don't help much with bacteria.

Bottled water is monitored under the FDA, tap water by the EPA, which enforces stricter standards (IIRC). You can take water out of any hose, spring or well and sell it as bottled water. Tap water is theoretically monitored more effectively for contaminants.

For good taste and bacteria free water, I think a pressed carbon block filter is best. You can get them to mount under or on your kitchen sink. Reverse osmosis filters will give you very safe water, but they also remove a lot of good minerals...again, IIRC.

I'll also throw in about the NYC water. Moved away from Staten Island when I was 25. I don't miss much, but the tap water was great.
 
Rent a pickup with the biggest bed you can find, go up to a high mountain streem or creek with a ton of 5 gallon jugs, fill em up, take em back home, run em thru a filter. We did that one year and wow. Most epic water I've ever tasted.
 
Here in the UK, I've pretty much drank tap water all my life, never had any issues.

Back "home" we have it pumped straight out of the deep deep ground, depending on the well, you can get anything from pure clean, to slightly iron biased.
 
dory_breaux said:
Rent a pickup with the biggest bed you can find, go up to a high mountain streem or creek with a ton of 5 gallon jugs, fill em up, take em back home, run em thru a filter. We did that one year and wow. Most epic water I've ever tasted.
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Funny. I have always had hangups about drinking tap water. About 2 miles from where I lived there is this stream of natural spring water running off of some super clean rocks that was a source of water for many people. It really was delicious but after several months it became a pain to make sure we always had jugs filled with fresh spring water. It was then my brother (who used to do water quality) assured me that my tap water was the best of the best. So, through sheer laziness I decided to give it a try and it was great.

Boring and long-winded story to just say "yeah. spring water is good".
 
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