Portland's Bull Run water is great. I always just drink it out of the tap. I am staying in southern Oregon until the end of summer and the water here is great for 9 months of the year, but gets a slight chlorinated taste during the height of summer. I recall tap water in Montana, and Nevada being kind of gross. The tap water in Florida, when I was living there, was surprisingly good and totally wasn't laced with bath salts and meth, like one would assume. We had to add it in ourselves.
I can actually see that.... I was over there working as an ornithologist with endangered shorebirds, not doing elicist drugs and eating people's faces, for the record. Just so you know.
The town i live near just started fluoridating their water, so i dont drink it if i dont have to. If im in town at work and really thirsty ill say fuck it occasionally and drink it. The well water up at my house is great though. My buddy in town bought some device that takes the fluoride out, but it wasn't cheap.
Worst water i ever had was in south Texas. I got some crazy gut infection. I felt totally fine but my food/drink would not digest no matter what. It would just sit in my gut and I would spew projectile vomit every hour or so then go back to work. It was weird.
You know most bottled water is tap water that has been filtered don't you? Hell, wouldn't be surprised if some is straight from the tap. Arrowhead "spring" tastes like shitty tap water
The worse water I experienced was in Coronado CA, the Special Warfare base. Yuk! I think it was the Amphibious Base then, maybe the water is better now too.
Now that you mention it, the absolute worst I have tasted was from Tule Lake California. It is a relatively geologically rich area south of Klamath Falls. The water tastes like sulfur. Its like drinking water that you boiled your eggs in.
I drink tap water. At work though they still haven't deleaded the school water, so we drink bottled water there.
I love my tap water in Walla Walla. A few years back I decided I should have the ability to purify any water just in case there was an issue so I went out and got several different systems. I have three filter systems, two small backpacking ones and a larger stationary one. I also got two UV light StriPEN water purifiers which are great for traveling and drinking less than potable water in Mexico or elsewhere. Aldo got a bunch of iodine tablets which taste shitty but are small, great for hiking or for emergencies.
You're a doomsday prepper. I had no idea. Dude, I haven't lost the last 70 lbs I want to lose. I'm thinking a good excuse to keep it is if the shit hits the fan I can live off it while other people get weak. That's my excuse if I keep procrastinating.
haha, that's good reasoning. Ya, I started prepping a bit a few years back. Don't do much anymore, and never took it too seriously but I find it pretty fun to prep a bit. I have a GO bag jam packed full of all sorts of oh-shit goodies from mylar sleeping bag to food and backpacking stove, first aid, wool clothes, handgun and ammo, fire starters and much more. Then around the house I have bunches of canned and freeze dried foods, extra gasoline, candles, lighters, headlamps, and on and on. Never believed an apocalypse is imminent but have fun planning
I drink out of the tap. I feel fortunate to be able to stick my head in the sink with the faucet on and have some of the best water in the country.
Are you saying they take good clean tap water, run it through a dirty filter, and then charge 300 to 2,000 times more for it than tap water? Who would be dumb enough to buy that product? Oh, and to answer the OP’s question. I only drink tap water at home. Why would anyone want to live where they can not drink the tap water? When away from home, I drink the same tap water I put into recycled bottle water containers, after I clean the container, with tap water.
