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Topic: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?  (Read 3360 times)

LenoraMinogue

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2016, 02:37:43 pm »
That sounds awful to deal with. I'm so sorry you're having to go through that. I can technically drink from the faucet here, but the taste is so very heavily chlorinated. It's like drinking from a pool, so I stick to bottled water.

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2016, 04:15:44 pm »
My goodness, this reminds me I need to hurry up and get a faucet filter.  I've had it on my list for a while.  We can drink our water but I've gotten in the habit of buying bottled waters.

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2016, 06:37:56 am »
I try not to dink the water from the faucet,  too much chlorine.  I joke when the shower/toilet smells strong that the E.coli level must be up in the lake.  I bring home some gallons of well water to drink and we keep bottle water to go to after that

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #33 on: April 07, 2016, 06:39:55 am »
I live in an area with hard water,  they say it's safe to drink the faucet water but when I pour it into a glass it's a bit cloudy. I can't drink that lol.. it just doesn't look clean enough.The water kinda looks like when you pour water into a cup that previously had milk in in it. It doesn't taste to bad but I'd rather pay the extra expense and buy bottles water. Plus, I live near an Albertson's and they have really great deals on water all the time. Makes it a lot easier to stock up on water.

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2016, 08:18:47 am »
No there is a fernery next to us and I would be afraid of what seeps in the water system.  Also the water stinks.  We bought a water filtration system called a Berkey and now we can drink the water after it filters.

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #35 on: April 07, 2016, 08:21:00 am »
Yes I do drink the water

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #36 on: April 07, 2016, 08:48:24 am »
We are able to drink our tap water here, but we don't want to because it tastes awful. You can taste chemicals like chlorine in it. the Town keeps sending us flyers that say our water quality is just great but it is difficult to believe that when the water tastes so bad. We drink bottled water and just use the water for other things.

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #37 on: April 07, 2016, 09:16:38 am »
Yes.  I can drink the water out of the tap.
We have a water filtration system in the kitchen, but you can drink the unfiltered water in the bathrooms & it is fine.

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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #38 on: April 07, 2016, 12:04:41 pm »
No, our water is not fit to drink.  We get notices every other month that three months prior certain contaminate levels exceeded the allowable amount in the testing they did.  We have used bottled water (Ice Mountain) for about the past 10 years for drinking and cooking.
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Re: Can you drink your faucet water in your home?
« Reply #39 on: April 07, 2016, 01:58:13 pm »
Yes we can, but for the most part we drink bottled water.

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