Anybody experienced with well water?

[TabulaRasa]

Originally Posted by historyfan

If your well water tastes good, you can run an unfiltered line to your kitchen sink for drinking water. That is commonly done.
Hard water is usually much tastier than softened water. Then you take a large pitcher of cool water from that line for final rinse of your hair.

Yep. I much prefer the taste of well water to softened or municipally treated water.

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by TabulaRasa

Yep. I much prefer the taste of well water to softened or municipally treated water.

I too also use unfiltered water from my wells. Excellent taste and no mineral deposits on the fixtures.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Tominftl

I wouldn't want well water today. Too many chemicals are leached in the water system. Harmful bacteria and amoeba exists. Has to be tested on a regular basis. Wells can get polluted with bacteria. With all the fracking and messing with the environment today, I just don't think it's a good idea...

That is totally dependent on where you locate yourself.

Many areas have no chemicals in the water. No bacteria. Testing should only need to be done once a decade.

A lot of areas have not allowed any fracking.

[Giesela]

Ground water can be contaminated by all sorts of chemicals from local industries, some long gone. I don't even know if your average testing tests for some of them.

I was researching a property once in Michigan and ran into some article or paperwork on a bloom of some cancer causing chemical from a long closed paper mill being monitored and tracked by DEQ as it moved through the underground water systems. I bet half the people in the area didn't even know about it, the paper mill was long gone.

My parents were on a well. When I was in high school a local appliance factory closed and soon after we had to start drinking bottled water that they picked up at a drop off point that the company was required to pay for leave and there for a certain number of years because they caused the well water for our whole area to be contaminated by some carcinogen.
And get this, the water table was tested as part of their closing up shop. So who knows how long it was there? And...the company paid the testing company providing the report to the state off for a cover up. The only reason it came to light was someone blew the whistle.

The OP says they don't drink the water though so thats fine. Otherwise I would suggest an osmosis just for drinking and cooking. Otherwise I like the one suggestion about the splitter and taking filtered water into the shower for your hair. I did that when deployed to the mideast. Desalinated water was heck on hair too. Took a bottle into the shower with me.