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For those of you who get water from the ground (most municipalities here), do you drink it? We got a letter saying one of the aquafiers/tanks had to be shut down due to a bad finding and it set off lots of rumblings about how safe any of the water really is. We know nitrates are bad for infants and the levels had always been borderline acceptable. Chlorine is added to kill waterborne diseases but that's not good to ingest or even bathe with. I'm curious what most people are doing about it. Just had a guy from a whole house filtration company come and give me his pitch (no hard sell). They use a carbon/resin filtration system with salt (filters nearly everything but some chloramine and nitrates), as well as a reverse osmosis add-on for drinking/cooking at the kitchen (filters the rest). Nearly $4k.
We had been drinking Poland Spring just to be safe but he told me he had tested and found many minerals like mercury and arsenic in it also. The fridge filters do a good job with filtering out chlorine and others and would be a better bet than bottled (unregulated). So what do you guys do about your drinking water if anything? Are you concerned about it or does it not yet raise a red flag?
For those of you who get water from the ground (most municipalities here), do you drink it? We got a letter saying one of the aquafiers/tanks had to be shut down due to a bad finding and it set off lots of rumblings about how safe any of the water really is. We know nitrates are bad for infants and the levels had always been borderline acceptable. Chlorine is added to kill waterborne diseases but that's not good to ingest or even bathe with. I'm curious what most people are doing about it. Just had a guy from a whole house filtration company come and give me his pitch (no hard sell). They use a carbon/resin filtration system with salt (filters nearly everything but some chloramine and nitrates), as well as a reverse osmosis add-on for drinking/cooking at the kitchen (filters the rest). Nearly $4k.
We had been drinking Poland Spring just to be safe but he told me he had tested and found many minerals like mercury and arsenic in it also. The fridge filters do a good job with filtering out chlorine and others and would be a better bet than bottled (unregulated). So what do you guys do about your drinking water if anything? Are you concerned about it or does it not yet raise a red flag?
Not sure if you're in Nassau or Suffolk, but in Suffolk the water authority has much higher and stricter standards that what goes into bottled water. So drinking Poland Spring doesn't automatically mean safer.
I live in Nassau and I drink straight out of the tap.
And I think the plastic water bottle craze is terrible for the environment so I don't want to contribute to it when I don't have to, and although they're cheap, water in drinking quanities is damn near free from the tap.
My tap water is so good I would drink it from the hose outside!
Even if it was laying in the summer all day.
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