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Do you drink tap water directly from your faucets at your own house? I don't. I did a water test other day, and it's not very clean, it's dirty compare to NYC tap water.
But I do drink tap water in restaurants, because I thought it was filtered tap water, my friend told me it's not filter, it's simply tap water. Is he right?
As a NJ resident, I don't drink tap water either, well sort of. I use it for my coffee maker but that's about it.
As for restaurants (used to be a chef), we used straight tap water and I would bet 90% of the restaurants do the same. If a restaurant uses so called "filtered" water, I would question exactly how often that filter's replaced.
NYC tap water, for the most part, comes from reservoirs up in the Catskills (Neversink Reservoir in Sullivan county for one - beautiful up there by the way) and is known to have some of the best water in the country. Unfortuantely what "dirties" that tap water are the decades old pipes in older buildings.
I have been drinking NJ tap water my whole life (45+ years). So far so good. I will add that for the last 20 years it has been well water, not public water.
Do you drink tap water directly from your faucets at your own house? I don't. I did a water test other day, and it's not very clean, it's dirty compare to NYC tap water.
But I do drink tap water in restaurants, because I thought it was filtered tap water, my friend told me it's not filter, it's simply tap water. Is he right?
I do. Have all my life.
Where do you live? All Jersey water is not the same, as I hope you know. Some people get it from artesian wells, some from various reservoirs, and some is even desalinated. The water I got (artesian well) in the town I'm from in North Jersey tasted better than the water I get in Monmouth County, which I believe comes from a nearby reservoir, but it's still all right. Despite my delusional screen name, I'm really not a princess when it comes to things like that.
So it only measures what PPM your water is actually water without telling you what else is in it? Like chlorine? Or fluoride? Or copper?
Out of curiosity, how well did NYC tap water do on the meter? You should test bottled water as well. This would actually be a great science experiment for anyone who needs one this spring.
i filter my tap water, mostly because my wife insist on it. in NYC i drink the tap since its great, when i visit my brother in LA i wont even use his ice cubes since the tap water smells like garbage
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I will add that for the last 20 years it has been well water, not public water.
