Tap Water (Orange, Poway, San Gabriel: house, neighborhood, to buy)

[AADAD]

When I first arrived here, there was talk about toilet to tap e.g. filtering water with enough chemicals to render it potable. I suggested that the rendering might be as bad for our bodies as the actual "water" that is produced. I was reassured by some that this water was entirely "drinkable" and a poster posted a video of the water being actually consumed by some executive of the plan.

Fast forward 4 years later. The desalination pilot plant is going full bore ahead and while this holds promise for the future my question is still is the tap water here an attractive alternative to bottled water which is tightly controlled e.g. Crystal Geyser.

Opinions thoughts and conjecture (and science) appreciated.

[oddstray]

We drink tap water filtered through a dual-filter undersink setup that we got from Sears. Nothing at all to do with Crystal Geyser.

I don't know how pleasant drinkng de-sal'ed water will be. Soldiers typically used something like Kool-aid to cover up it's taste (or lack thereof).

[CSD610]

We have a water filtering system from Culligan and it works great with the well water we have.

[futbol]

Originally Posted by oddstray

We drink tap water filtered through a dual-filter undersink setup that we got from Sears. Nothing at all to do with Crystal Geyser.

I don't know how pleasant drinkng de-sal'ed water will be. Soldiers typically used something like Kool-aid to cover up it's taste (or lack thereof).

Our Sears-bought water filtration system broke where the tube enters the filter and flooded our house. Turns out the PSI to the house was too high (100+ PSI), but still, those plastic filters are risky, IMHO.

Good thing I was only away for 15 mins and was able to cut off the main water valve and clean it up... and remove that broken filter.

Originally Posted by CSD610

We have a water filtering system from Culligan and it works great with the well water we have.

Culligan is what we've gone with ever since. They do one thing (water) and they do it right. Our filter is just outside the house near the kitchen. The filters are easy to replace but they last years.

The Culligan people also installed a regulator on our water supply to reduce the PSI.

Interesting that they have different filters for different water supplies. Since the City of Poway supplies the water to our neighborhood we only needed one kind of filter.

[DougStark]

You all are forgetting (or not aware) that filters don't take out salts. The cheapest way to remove the salt is reverse osmosis. Orange County has been recycling their waste water with reverse osmosis for years, turning sewer water into very pure drinking water.

[bloom]

Tap water tastes weird when you first move here but then you get conditioned and don't notice it. Other regions have better tasting water. I think we have hard water here. Fracked water is flammable.

[3chidogs]

Compared to the San Gabriel Valley where I lived for years, the tap water here is just fine. Ours had a strong medicinal taste, even flavored stuff you boiled in it. Nasty. We used to have to buy bottled water to drink and cook with. Tap water here has no nasty taste at all.

[AADAD]

Originally Posted by 3chidogs

Compared to the San Gabriel Valley where I lived for years, the tap water here is just fine. Ours had a strong medicinal taste, even flavored stuff you boiled in it. Nasty. We used to have to buy bottled water to drink and cook with. Tap water here has no nasty taste at all.

Yah but what do they put in it?

[Gentoo]

In areas served by SD water authority, it taste like swimming pool water but as mentioned you get used to it. If you live in the Sweetwater Authorities area, you never get used to it.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

You should smell Yuma AZ water. It smells like sulfur. Nasty.