Why does the water taste so bad?

[Summit43]

For me, it is more than about taste and smell. I personally do not want to ingest fluoride, chloramine, or anything else that may be found at questionable levels in tap water and less so in reverse osmosis purified water.

[powelowe]

It still seems this issue in DFW is unresolved. I will fix that. The City of Dallas supplies its own water from 3 separate water plants within the city using water from the local reserviors (Lewisville, Ray Roberts, Grapevine, Ray Hubbard). Collin and Rockwall counties and Mckinney, Frisco, Plano, Mesquite, and Wylie get their water from North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD). NTMWD is probably one of the worst water suppliers in the state of Texas (There are many). They derive about 1/3 of their water from Lake Texoma, and the rest from Lake Lavon, Tawakoni, and Cooper. They do not use ozone or any of the advanced treatment techniques that Dallas Water Utility does, hence poorer water in the eastern suburbs.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by powelowe

It still seems this issue in DFW is unresolved. I will fix that. The City of Dallas supplies its own water from 3 separate water plants within the city using water from the local reserviors (Lewisville, Ray Roberts, Grapevine, Ray Hubbard). Collin and Rockwall counties and Mckinney, Frisco, Plano, Mesquite, and Wylie get their water from North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD). NTMWD is probably one of the worst water suppliers in the state of Texas (There are many). They derive about 1/3 of their water from Lake Texoma, and the rest from Lake Lavon, Tawakoni, and Cooper. They do not use ozone or any of the advanced treatment techniques that Dallas Water Utility does, hence poorer water in the eastern suburbs.

NTMWD has used ozone as its primary means of disinfection for many years.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by Nn2036

The water is quite hard.

No really. I actually work in the industry, and Dallas Water is much, much softer than the water in the west, upper south, and midwest.

The issue with Dallas water is it comes from lakes that are have alot of sentiment that even when it's "Clean" still tastes like dirt. The quality of the water changes significantly when it rains. I've seen the conductivity levels (how much "stuff" is in the water basically) double in a day or two depending on rain.