Basically all rivers and lakes in Boston area are polluted with mercury and PCBs (Ayer: buy, utilities)

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by Lampert

I only drink tap water. What do you drink?

Me too for the most part. I have a reusable water bottle that comes with me everywhere I go. I fill it from the tap at home (mine or anyone else's), the water cooler at work (bottled), and water fountains (generally tap/municipal) almost anywhere I go in public.

[Bettafish]

Originally Posted by mp775

Do the fish go through treatment plants?

How much do you trust the treatment plants?

[id77]

Originally Posted by G-fused

Does anyone drink much tap water these days?

My tap water is just fine, no filter needed even.

This question actually scares me. Are there so many out there blowing through cases of Poland Spring or Dasani single-use bottles in Boston?

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by msRB311

I usually drink the water out of the thing on my fridge.

I always thought it had some kind of filtration device on it. Otherwise what is the point of it?

When i'm down the cape I dont drink the tap water at all. We do bottled water.

[Boston_Burbs]

Quabbin is one of the best water sources in the country. So good they don’t even have to filter it. Nothing to worry there.

[mingna]

We recently had the privilege of drinking Boston tap water and the general consensus was that it was very “tasty” for municipal water, especially compared to other city tap water I’ve sampled.

Boston tap water was a delight to drink, and we just refilled our reusable water bottles with the tap water to drink as needed when out and about. I prefer drinking tap over any store bought water if safe, given you don’t know how long the store water had been sitting in those plastic bottles plastic, and how much chemical leached from it as a consequence.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pr...ottles-humans/

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by id77

This question actually scares me. Are there so many out there blowing through cases of Poland Spring or Dasani single-use bottles in Boston?

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by mingna

We recently had the privilege of drinking Boston tap water and the general consensus was that it was very “tasty” for municipal water, especially compared to other city tap water I’ve sampled.

Boston tap water was a delight to drink, and we just refilled our reusable water bottles with the tap water to drink as needed when out and about. I prefer drinking tap over any store bought water if safe, given you don’t know how long the store water had been sitting in those plastic bottles plastic, and how much chemical leached from it as a consequence.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pr...ottles-humans/

I agree, Boston/MWRA water beats pretty much any bottled water you would buy.

[bostongymjunkie]

Chronicle has done several shows on the Quabbin and once did a great episode on management of the water supply. Very impressive. I wasn't able to track that episode down, but this video is also good. These people aren't the typical Mass state government patronage hacks.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRzlazxgAE

[mp775]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Otherwise what is the point of it?

Refrigeration.