What's the story on the NEVADA tap water? (Las Vegas, Reno: utilities, live)

[Tiger Beer]

]Cities with best and worst tap water | Yahoo! Green

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today released the results of a three-year investigation of municipal water supplies across the U.S.
The research and advocacy group looked at water quality tests performed by water utilities since 2004 and created an extensive database that contains info on the contaminants found in 48,000 communities in 45 states.
EWG also rated 100 big city (population over 250,000) water utilities. Below are the top and bottom results.


Cities with the best water:

1. Arlington, TX
2. Providence, RI
3. Fort Worth, TX
4. Charleston, SC
5. Boston, MA
6. Honolulu, HI
7. Austin, TX
8. Fairfax County, VA
9. St. Louis, MO
10. Minneapolis, MN

Cities with the worst water:

1. Pensacola, FL
2. Riverside, CA
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Riverside County, CA
5. Reno, NV
6. Houston, TX
7. Omaha, NE
8. North Las Vegas, NV
9. San Diego, CA

[dynimagelv]

if ya can't see it or chew it, it ain't water.

[ITChick]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

if ya can't see it or chew it, it ain't water.

LOL! Dark Chewy water. Yum!

Seriously though, it might be time to look into investing in a water filter if you're worried TigerBeer:
Find the best filter for your tap water | Yahoo! Green

[Chinga]

haha I dont know honestly, I just think its en vogue these days to put las vegas on every "worst" list out there. I have drank the tap water, and I am still alive.. then again most of my water comes from Pahrump.. since I live there

[DoberPup]

I assume Carson City has the same water source as Reno, and we're just fine here.

[Bayarea4]

San Francisco's tap water is excellent. In a blind taste test it was rated just as high as expensive bottled water.

[tijlover]

People who come to Las Vegas to do some heavy partying and drinking will say over and over again, on their return flight, to the annoyance of the flight attendants: My liver! My liver! My liver!

Little do they know, it wasn't the alcohol, they drank some tap water while they were here!

[gvc8]

I couldn't or woudn't live here without some kind of RO system. the tap water (NW vegas) tastes bitter to me

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

]Cities with best and worst tap water | Yahoo! Green

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today released the results of a three-year investigation of municipal water supplies across the U.S.
The research and advocacy group looked at water quality tests performed by water utilities since 2004 and created an extensive database that contains info on the contaminants found in 48,000 communities in 45 states.
EWG also rated 100 big city (population over 250,000) water utilities. Below are the top and bottom results.


Cities with the best water:

1. Arlington, TX
2. Providence, RI
3. Fort Worth, TX
4. Charleston, SC
5. Boston, MA
6. Honolulu, HI
7. Austin, TX
8. Fairfax County, VA
9. St. Louis, MO
10. Minneapolis, MN

Cities with the worst water:

1. Pensacola, FL
2. Riverside, CA
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Riverside County, CA
5. Reno, NV
6. Houston, TX
7. Omaha, NE
8. North Las Vegas, NV
9. San Diego, CA

I don't know about Houston, but I know that Tampa and San Diego and probably many other dryer western cities recycle and reuse a lot of their water. National Geographic actually had a recent article that mentioned even the wastewater from toilest in California is recycled, its in that special water issue, where the author visited a facility in San Diego or somewhere else in Southern California. I've noticed most of the cities on the worst list are in the Southwest with a lot of water shortages. I think Tampa has shortages too, its on the coast but doesn't have a lot of FRESH water.

[tackleberry]

its nasty. but floridas i think is way worse.