dc residents: what water do you drink?

I have a filter, but generally there's a 24 pack of Aquafina in my house.

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Corporate media breeds distrust of government-run services and utilities and persuades the public to put its trust in private enterprise, businesses that always put profit first and everything else after that, including public health. So we suck from the dihydrogen oxide teat of Corporate America instead of pressuring our elected representatives to improve water quality and we wonder why the rest of the world hates us.

no, i think government run services do a pretty good job on their own of causing people to distrust them.

Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
I have a filter, but generally there's a 24 pack of Aquafina in my house.

Source? ;)

Originally posted by Darth Ed:

Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
I have a filter, but generally there's a 24 pack of Aquafina in my house.

Source? ;)

Safeway.

Originally posted by Cali:
do you drink or bath in dc water. you can actually smell the clorine at times. you can taste it too. when i was in college, my roomate and i would make tea with the water and that was the meal. you were too full to eat anything after that.

I think DC tap water gets a very bad rap.

I travel a lot for work and I get to "experience" tap water all over the US and Canada.

Florida tap is disgusting, all over the state, particularly in Jacksonville whhere it tastes like a musty old basement, and in Orlando where it tastes like manatee poop. I even brush my teeth with bottled water in Florida.

San Antonio water is not much better; it leaves almost a film in your mouth. It just doesn't "feel" like water when you drink it.

And the quality of the water is 24-point bold headlines from time to time in many of the cities I visit.

I'd love to see where DC tap ranks compared to the rest of the US. And I would much rather have the chlorine than the what-stinks of Florida tap.

I'm a DC resident, and usually quick to defend our city, but DC tap water deserves its bad rap. Several times since I've lived here there have been official warnings about drinking the water, with orders to boil it first. That is what you do in third world countries, not here.

And to the original poster, it's not high chloroform in the water, it's high coliform. That means DC tap water is full of crap. Literally!

For me I use a Brita jug filter. Aquafina is just filtered tap water – you can filter it yourself, why pay for it?

it's not high chloroform in the water, it's high coliform.

Thanks, I suspected I had the wrong word. So I'm off at lunch to pick up a Brita dealie, even though I haven't read anything that says whether it filters out coliform. My plan is to use that most of the year, and only buy bottled water if the tap water is noticably whiffy

when i lived in gaithersburg, i didnt drink the tap water because it always tasted weird. now i live in bethesda, and the water doesnt taste bad at all - which doesnt really make sense, but whatever. i dtink the tap water now. sometimes i'll buy those gallons of water from wal-mart for 60 cents, but i have no filter on my tap. i should get one.

If it comes from the Anacostia you may want to filter it…

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Here's a guide on what filters do what. It looks like PUR filters actually are more thorough than Brita.

http://thegreenguide.com/reports/product.mhtml?id=23&amp;sec=2