Cities with the best/worst tap water (Boston, Phoenix, live)
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I agree with this. Phoenix water is absolute garbage.
Water out west has to contend with all the minerals that it has come into contact with the rocks. Cyanide is a big problem out West.
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Originally Posted by LordHomunculus
My theory is that NY/NJ makes damn sure to filter their water because they know it can be heavily polluted.
New York still has the PCBs in the Hudson after all these years. Plus the old infrastructure on the East Coast in general such as lead pipes in water mains and even lead welds in domestic piping.
Houston does not have to worry about lead. There was a big push to rebuild water/sewer lines in the '90s and '00s and you could see the huge PVC/concrete pipes they were about to bury.
The worst that could happen is that your galvanized steel pipes are beginning to reach the end of their lives and starting to rust within. That was featured on a local TV news story a month ago. Most of those houses are the older houses built in the 1960's-1980's, which are mostly clustered around Beltway 8 in West Houston. The builder of my house in the exurbs mentioned the copper piping in the features sheet.
This data is almost 15 years old. Things could have changed significantly since 2001. These ratings seem to fluctuate year-to-year. According to this study, Seattle received a grade of poor for 2000. But they were upgraded to fair for 2001.
Thanks.
History of Seattle's water supply and the protected land it comes from.
How clean is Seattle's drinking water?
So how does Seattle keep its water clean? The answer starts more than 35 miles away at the Cedar River Watershed and the Tolt River Watershed, where an unspoiled wilderness sits in the Cascade Mountains.
The city owns almost 91,000 acres of land around the Cedar River Watershed, more than 99.6 percent of the hydrographic boundary that feeds the river. By owning the land, the city protects the source of the water. That's nearly twice the 50,000 acres of the city itself. The same's true for the Tolt. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/artic...ter-888354.php
I agree with this. Phoenix water is absolute garbage.
As gross as this sounds, I remember when I lived in Tucson (similar water sourcing minus SRP in favor of recycled groundwater) is that I was forced to drink tap 1x and I was full afterwards? Like I had eaten something. It was purely disgusting.
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This sight list many cities and water results by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) for 2001 on ......
--Water Quality and Compliance
--Right to Know Reports
--Source Water Protection
Chicago was the ONLY city listed as EXCELLENT WATER QUALITY, from Lake Michigan. NRDC: What's On Tap?
New York still has the PCBs in the Hudson after all these years. Plus the old infrastructure on the East Coast in general such as lead pipes in water mains and even lead welds in domestic piping.
New York doesn't get water from the Hudson... wtf. NYC tap water is pretty much wild mountain water, we get it from upstate and its piped through two giant tunnels. They even bottle NYC tap water to sell it in stores.
NYC has enough mountain water reserves for like 100+ million people or something crazy... no need to use the Hudson.
Best tap water from my experience: NYC, parts of NJ, and Long Island (except far out east which is gross and chemical-lay).
Mediocre tap water: Washington, D.C. Area, Richmond, VA area, Miami (Florida has terrible water in general but it is pretty good at least in Miami Beach).
Not-so-good tap water: Hoboken, NJ (really gross taste), Los Angeles, Jacksonville, FL (hands down worst water I've ever had or showered in), Orlando, FL (a close second to Jacksonville), all of Florida in general has extremely hard water, and Savvanah, GA.
Our water tastes good because it comes fresh from the Cascades: natural, minimally treated—no herbicides, pesticides or chemicals—clean, tasty water. It’s not like the water from the Mississippi River or Lake Michigan, which is heavily filtered and processed (because it’s been through thousands of kidneys) and kind of tastes flat. Our protected watershed is a fundamentally different kind of system. We get the first use of this water, and everything in here is natural.
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