Drinking Water in PA (Reading, Lancaster: new home, buy, university)

[enviroman]

Water really varies here in PA. If you have well water and you live in an agriculutral area, you need to have your water tested regularly for nitrates.

Personally, I prefer tap water simply because I know it has passed through a water treatment plant and it's regulated by the EPA. *shrug* If you let tap water sit open for like 24 hours, the chlorine molecules will dissipate and the water will taste "normal." It's a pain, I guess, but I don't mind the taste of tap!

[books1017]

We have very good water in Stroudsburg area in Monroe County. We've been here almost 18 years and have never bought water. For a long time, they even sold water to Perrier.

[GreenGuyJ]

I've been living back and forth between an apartment in Stroudsburg and a home I just bought in Allentown and the water is fine in both places. I like to use a Pur filter with a water cooler, but neither place is bad enough that I wouldn't drink it without being filtered, I just like it plain and cold!

[ScranBarre]

We "city folk" in the Scranton area all drink public water, and I don't have much of a problem with it at all. Granted, we use a PUR water filtration system (as do most of our neighbors who remember the public water giardiasis outbreak of the 1980s) but I still fill up a glass every now and then and gulp it right down, and so far no brain damage! LOL! We have no "sulfur" smell, but there is a slight metallic taste to it, as there probably is in most urban water supplies.

Bamboo, much of Susquehanna and Wayne Counties are quite rural, and most local residents (outside of the boroughs, such as Montrose, Honesdale, etc.) depend on deeply-drilled wells for their drinking water. From what I've heard from a few locals who post on other message boards, the aquifers in that area are pristine.

Just an aside, it's hard for me to believe that the Susquehanna River, recently dubbed the "Most endangered river in the nation" for its high pollution, is the drinking source for Harrisburg! Here in Pittston, where the Lackawanna River flows from Scranton down into the Susquehanna, you can often see orange acid mine runoff coming up from the abandoned anthracite coal mines beneath the city, which has stained the pillars of the city's bridges. Think about that the next time you slam down a gulp of delicious tap water in Harrisburg! LOL!

[winnie]

Our water is not so good - but I think it is because this is a brand new house and the well is very, very deep. We have a 50 gallon/minute well and it had to be shocked several times (because it was brand new with such a fast flow) and our water was GREAT before that, now it has a little smell which we are told will ease up - in a year or so...

If you go into the Walmart in Milford, you see very few packs of bottled water for sale. The clerk told DH there is not much of a demand for it up here. So I guess that speaks volumes..

[BlackCatPhotography]

We can drink the ground & spring water w/ out filtering here in Sullivan County. It gets tested every six months, always clean, even better than the filtered and chlorinated borough water in Dushore. Of course.. you don't just drink out of any spring.

[turboredcart]

Drinking water in Selinsgrove PA SUCKS.

[turboredcart]

I grew up in Chicago. Which has great water! But they also have a billion $ treatment facility.

Small towns cant afford this costly treatment- not state of teh art.

Weis grocery store has outside spiquet. Look for "reverse osmoses"- you bring your own jug, it is 30 cents a gallon. I usually get 5-7 at a time.


http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/water101/


i drink 90+ oz a day. the above is a group i started.

[susquehannock]

Originally Posted by turboredcart

Drinking water in Selinsgrove PA SUCKS.

Indeed,it is loaded with fluoride and chlorine and tastes like (fill in the blank). Luckily, I'm on a well that has been tested and has great water as far chemicals and bacteria. Unfortunately, I need a softener but still it beats city water.

[turboredcart]

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/water101/

<--- my group. 70% of the public is not properly hydrated. I drink 90+ ouces a day. This is a simple cheap habit that can enhance your life. The body is full of toxins and poisens, which need to be flushed out.

2000+ chemical exist today that did not 70 years ago. [medications] we ingest all this. It is fine to absorb teh nutrients...but due to lack of water and activity- combined with processed foods- the typical person can have 5+ lbs of crud in their colon. Some as much as 40 lbs.

Keep your colon flushed...and your health will be better.

Roger