OT How many here regularly drink municipal tap water?

I'm sure anyplace it rains 200 days a year has better water. Tradeoff

 

Yep! Carry water from home, boat or vehicle.

 

Love my Willamette Valley tap water. When I was in Iceland all the water smelt like sulphur so bad I wouldn't even try it. It's supposed to be fine though I guess.

 

I suspect you meant to use green font in the first paragraph but........for those unaware, Coca Cola takes Wilsonville tap water (who's source is the Willamette River) and bottles it under the Dasani name. Great tasting stuff but tap water nonetheless.......but because it is tap water, it is required to meet much higher standards BEFORE it comes out of the spigot than it does before it goes into the bottle. So it has that going for it.......government regulations at their finest......

 

Ha! Shit, that's not funny.

 

When away from home I just drink beer.

 

At home, away from home. At church, at work....beeeeer

 

Yes, but with a Brita Filter Jug

 

I'm living in Colombia and I drink the tap water from my apartment, although im sure it's filtered because its great. In oregon i love the tap water too

 

Now that I know why most of you are so emotional I'm going to post links to more tap water crazies.

Here's one

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/tex...inal-day-caps-contentious-legislative-session

 

Just read this article and it reinforced my painful choice to not eat fish. Grew up eating salmon and halibut and red snapper all the time. Haven't eaten much for years. I visualize eating a sponge from a wastewater plant. The fish live in filth.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/pharmaceuticals-in-the-water/

 

I was at a house party not too long ago and I started drinking a glass of water. This bitch starts telling me how dumb it is to drink the water because it has trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in it - as she looked up from her line of coke.

I was like "You're right, drugs are bad. I'll keep that in mind"

She goes "No I'm being serious! People take Prozac then pee it out into our water!"

I go "Ew gross, do you think people pee out coke into the water too?"

It got silent.

 

I think they were mostly talking about fresh water fishes and the problems for them. ocean run species would unlikely be harmed much, like your snapper and halibut. that said however think mercury and now radiation from fukashima impacting ocean run. (I still eat sashimi and poke at least twice a week here.) your snapper and halibut live 50-100 years to accumulate toxins. ahi-tuna, mahi mahi grow to harvestable size in less than 3 years.

 

Reason 500 not to drink tap water. Cocaine cocaine cocaine. Although Portland probably has way more meth in the water.