How's the water?

[PenguinsFan]

I never appreciated the water here nor appreciated bottled water until I experienced hard water with a strong iron taste in the midwest.

[greg42]

I'd have to filter just about anything at this point. After years of bottled or filtered I can taste pretty small amounts of chlorine. I use my tap water, but with a PUR filter on the tap. I can't remember the last time I tasted it straight. Up here it's actually not from a big river source but fed by smaller springs so in theory could be better tasting, but after the various things they do for safety reasons any taste advantage might be gone.

[greg42]

Originally Posted by PenguinsFan

I never appreciated the water here nor appreciated bottled water until I experienced hard water with a strong iron taste in the midwest.

Try Florida. Ugh, that is nasty. You can barely brush your teeth in it, let alone drink it out of the tap!

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by greg42

Try Florida. Ugh, that is nasty. You can barely brush your teeth in it, let alone drink it out of the tap!

Especially in the middle of the state. Bad water sent through 45 miles of pipes doesn't get any better.

Yeah, Pensfan is right. People who think the water here is bad have never had bad water.

[szug-bot]

when i gave up soft drinks for good a few years back, i was crazed with bottled water. i cant believe how much i spent, and how much aggravation i had, to recycle all these plastic bottles (i was living somewhere that did not have curbside recycling - who is 'backwards and non-forward thinking now??).

pittsburgh tap water is perfectly fine. strangely, i find i do NOT like west view water. maybe it was just at the house where i was.

Several times during my 6 years there it came through the faucet brown and dirty.

this usually follows a service shutdown, which usually is because of a water line failure. was that the case, if you remember, I_Like_Spam?

[Buckeye Burgher]

Depends on where in town you live.

The water from the City of Pittsburgh Waterworks by Route 28 is excellent. Good tasting.
I have actually seen surveys where it is highly rated for taste and quality. That water
comes from the Allegheny River, which has less industry along its length than the other two.

My water comes from American Water's plant on Beck's Run Road. It comes out of the
Monongahela. It is harder than city water, and does not taste quite as good. Not bad,
but I can tell the difference when I visit my parents and have the city water.

[I_Like_Spam]

Originally Posted by szug-bot

Several times during my 6 years there it came through the faucet brown and dirty.

this usually follows a service shutdown, which usually is because of a water line failure. was that the case, if you remember, I_Like_Spam?

I called West View Water when it happened, the explanation was they were flushing out the lines.

I think it may have had something to do with the proximity of the apartment on Laurel Ave. with West View's water intake on the Ohio.

[Hopes]

Anytime our water turns brown it's due to a water main break. It doesn't last long if you stop using the water until the water main is repaired. Using the water causes the brown water to fill your hot water tank, which extends the time brown water comes out of the tap.

[Buckeye Burgher]

I lived in Michigan for a few years with exceptionally nasty well water.
It looked and tasted like a rusty nail. There were no blondes in town,
only oranges.

[crae09]

My tap water in N. Oakland isnt the most fabulous tasting. You could tell that it'd be better filtered, but its clear and drinkable. My friend lives in Forrest Hills and their water is always cloudy and has weird particles in it .. bleh she says its normal compared to Indiana County. To each their own, right? haha