Houston tap water ! What do ya think about it ? (Dallas: how much, house)

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by d2mini

NYC and suburbs have the best tasting tap water. Anything you drink after that is just nasty, including houston.
This is also why the bagels are so good.

That said, I wouldn't be afraid for my health... much. Just don't like the chlorine smell and taste.

I wouldn't trust water coming out of 100-200 year old pipes. They might date to Roman times and they used lead! Plus who can forget about the dioxins in the Hudson River?

Would rather have a kolache over a bagel anytime! Who wants boiled-in-lye bread?

Typical NYC provincialism. L.A. has a better climate and better quality of life for the same price as NYC when it comes to American megacities. House instead of apartment; car instead of public transit. Wouldn't want to be in the Blizzard of '16 right now!

Originally Posted by crone

That means we get treated sewage effluent from Dallas and all points downstream.

Another reason to get rid of Dallas. But the San Jacinto River's headwaters are in Montgomery County, not in North Texas, so Lake Houston doesn't have Trinity River water unless there is extra demand necessitating the use of the diversion water pipe.

I said excellent since I can safely drink the water (e.g. Japan, U.K., Western Europe) unlike some developing countries I have visited (Philippines :cough:, Mexico :cough: ).

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by d2mini

Yes, sorry... i assumed we were talking about city treated tap water.

I live in the City of Houston and receive my bill through Houstonwaterbills.org but I believe my water may still be well water from when the COH annexed this neighborhood (MUD) in the 90's.

Originally Posted by crone

If you are in a MUD, you may or may not be getting water from the CoH.

Most areas outside the city limit are also in a regional water authority. Some of the water I get is pumped from wells, some is purchased by the MUD from the water authority from the city. The river your city water comes from depends on the part of town you are in. I am at 290 and 1960 in the NHCRWA. The water purchased from the city comes from Lake Houston. That means we get treated sewage effluent from Dallas and all points downstream.

We do not buy bottled water. Imagine the water bottle in your hand being 1/4 full of oil. That is the amount of petroleum needed to put that bottle of water in your hand.

Lake Houston is in the San Jacinto water plane and is not fed by any rivers that flow anywhere near Dallas. I think you are thinking about Lake Livingston. They are planning canals that will bring Livingston water into Lake Houston but I don't think they have been constructed yet...

[houstonfan]

I don't know about the quality but I buy distilled water anyway. I can see the build up around the sink and in appliances, not to mention that our world is getting more polluted by the day. Everything ends up in the water table eventually.

[texas7]

I drink the tap water and I drink bottled. Don't really care for the plastics and am concerned over the potential health hazards but yet our own tap water is full of antibiotics, estrogens, and other medications from what I read. So they are probably both about the same.

[d2mini]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

I wouldn't trust water coming out of 100-200 year old pipes. They might date to Roman times and they used lead! Plus who can forget about the dioxins in the Hudson River?

Would rather have a kolache over a bagel anytime! Who wants boiled-in-lye bread?

Typical NYC provincialism. L.A. has a better climate and better quality of life for the same price as NYC when it comes to American megacities. House instead of apartment; car instead of public transit. Wouldn't want to be in the Blizzard of '16 right now!

LOL, typical.
Nothing was said about NYC being some holy grail of a city. We're just talking about water. I do not miss the snow and long winters at all, and I would never live in Manhattan. But it's pretty well known that the tap water quality in NYC is pretty good. Definitely not a case of provincialism as you put it.
If you care what's in it, the info is out there...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate14.pdf

Here's an article from the L.A. TIMES about bottling it, and also touches on where it comes from and how clean it is.
They're drinking it up in New York - latimes

As far as a wilted hot dog in mushy bread... I'll take the bagel with cream cheese every time if there is a choice.

[houston-nomad]

Bottled water is mostly bottled tap water (Dasani, for example). Don't waste your money.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Its like drinking from a spring in Switzerland

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Its like drinking from a spring in Switzerland

Walmart sells spring water it says comes from a spring in Fort Worth ! Oh boy...

[HookTheBrotherUp]

I have a whole house water softener for both hot and cold, and a reverse osmosis tap in the kitchen for drinking/cooking, and a reverse osmosis upstairs in the utility room for my aquariums and drinking if I'm too lazy to go downstairs. But, we also have little bottles of water for the kids... water that contains fluoride, it is important for them (also toothpaste). R/O filters remove everything, including fluoride.

Houston, at least where I live (Montrose), has hard water.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by HookTheBrotherUp

I have a whole house water softener for both hot and cold, and a reverse osmosis tap in the kitchen for drinking/cooking, and a reverse osmosis upstairs in the utility room for my aquariums and drinking if I'm too lazy to go downstairs. But, we also have little bottles of water for the kids... water that contains fluoride, it is important for them (also toothpaste). R/O filters remove everything, including fluoride.

Houston, at least where I live (Montrose), has hard water.

WOW, how much did all of that set you back ?