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04-06-2009, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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How bad is your drinking water?
I will for sure only be drinking bottles water from now on....what are we going to find out next?
Last edited by tao; 04-09-2009 at 06:46 AM..
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04-06-2009, 10:34 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Colorado has some of the best tap water in the nation, you want flammable go to lake Erie and light a match, or god forbid open a tap in Indiana.
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04-07-2009, 02:41 PM
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Bringing chaos out of order
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: North Beach, MD on the Chesapeake
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Did the Environmental Protection people there shut down the water plant? Actually that situation has occurred a few times elsewhere, leaking fuel tanks discharge into the aquifer.
Last edited by tao; 04-09-2009 at 06:47 AM..
Reason: edited out original quoted post's spam
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04-07-2009, 03:33 PM
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Senior Member
Status:
"Are we there yet? I gotta go."
(set 22 days ago)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Way South, ME
1,605 posts, read 666,338 times
Reputation: 943
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I live in Maine with well water. The water's FINE.
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04-08-2009, 10:25 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Virginia
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Reputation: 286
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My water is so bad that I used a Britta filter for 2 months with the filter installed incorrectly, and couldn't even taste the difference.  |
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04-08-2009, 10:56 PM
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Member
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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I live in Blair,NE and the water company got in trouble for not monitoring the water quality according to state guidelines from Jun 2008-Jan 2009. The excuse given was that they didn't know they changed. They are also having issues providing clean drinking water to one area of the city. When I lived in Omaha, granted it is bigger, we never had issues.
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04-09-2009, 10:02 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Back in New York
1,105 posts, read 633,186 times
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Tap water as a general rule is not good tasting or good for you. Its chemichally treated and passes through lots of piping so has excess metal, pvc..etc..
Unfortunately bottled water isn't any better. Most major bands of bottled water have been tested and results did not come back good. They were loaded with every bit as many contaminents as tap water including heavy metals and pharmacueticals. 99% of bottled water is in plastic bottles and since all plastic leaches you are drinking plastic too. I won't even get into the environmental diseaster plastic is too.
The only solution is buying your own home filter which is installed in the pipes. Very expensive but water is your most important resource so its worth it.
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