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Old 05-11-2010, 01:52 PM
 
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Orlando doesn't really have bad tap water but we have one of those huge filters outside of the house. We had the same in Miami which has the Biscayne Aquifer underneath it and it acts like a porous sponge that cleans the water from the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee.
Seriously the best tap water I have ever tasted was from New York City! They get their water from the Catskills to the north.
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Old 12-21-2010, 07:17 PM
 
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This is my first trip to Orlando and the tap water here sucks. It smells and tastes bad to me, and my mother, who is visiting from Canada. Noticed in the first restaurant I went to. Then I noticed it while taking a shower at our condo. The entire bathroom smelled like a perfume/bleach/chlorine smell. Then I noticed the coffee we made tasted bad. We finally used bottled water tonight and at least the coffee is now drinkable. I'm glad to hear that filtering it, makes it taste/smell better.
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Old 12-23-2010, 09:20 AM
 
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The water in Orlando tastes like dirt. Even if you boil it, it is horrible. Makes you wonder if you are drinking pure swamp water. I wouldn't chance it. Bottled water is the only way to go in Orlando!
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Old 12-23-2010, 09:23 AM
 
Location: FLORIDA
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FL water in general is pretty bad.
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Old 12-23-2010, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Orlando Metro Area
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The water in Orlando tastes like dirt. Even if you boil it, it is horrible. Makes you wonder if you are drinking pure swamp water. I wouldn't chance it. Bottled water is the only way to go in Orlando!
Ever hear of a filter??? Brita & Pur are some good examples of how you don't have to go broke to take the chlorinated and/or sulfuric taste/smell out of your tap water. By the way, Florida has some of the best natural spring water out there, and they even bottle it and sell it from the source, for example Zephyrhills.


Oh and nobody has fully answered the OP question yet, Orlando (and Daytona, Flagler Beach, Gainesville, Tampa, Jacksonville, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, some cities in South Florida, Savannah, Brunswick, and many more in between) get tap water directly from the FLORIDAN AQUIFER, which is one of the most productive aquifer systems in the entire world.
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Old 12-23-2010, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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Ever hear of a filter??? Brita & Pur are some good examples of how you don't have to go broke to take the chlorinated and/or sulfuric taste/smell out of your tap water. By the way, Florida has some of the best natural spring water out there, and they even bottle it and sell it from the source, for example Zephyrhills.


Oh and nobody has fully answered the OP question yet, Orlando (and Daytona, Flagler Beach, Gainesville, Tampa, Jacksonville, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, some cities in South Florida, Savannah, Brunswick, and many more in between) get tap water directly from the FLORIDAN AQUIFER, which is one of the most productive aquifer systems in the entire world.
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Old 12-24-2010, 08:41 AM
 
Location: FL
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I think the water is fine with no taste or odor like other areas in FL.

I would actually compare it to natural spring water that we drink in Harbor Springs, MI thus the name; which just comes up from the ground and drunk fresh.

AND BTW Harbor Springs has no water meters! Theres that much water.

They just charge a flat fee (cheap) for usage.
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Old 12-28-2010, 09:50 AM
 
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Ever hear of a filter??? Brita & Pur are some good examples of how you don't have to go broke to take the chlorinated and/or sulfuric taste/smell out of your tap water. By the way, Florida has some of the best natural spring water out there, and they even bottle it and sell it from the source, for example Zephyrhills.


Oh and nobody has fully answered the OP question yet, Orlando (and Daytona, Flagler Beach, Gainesville, Tampa, Jacksonville, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, some cities in South Florida, Savannah, Brunswick, and many more in between) get tap water directly from the FLORIDAN AQUIFER, which is one of the most productive aquifer systems in the entire world.

Of course I have heard of a filter, who hasn't...I don't believe that would help Orlando's water. And BTW! Zephryllis water is horrible. I buy Ozarka water, from the natural springs of the Ozark Mountans of ARKANSAS!...which by the way is where I am from, and you can drink water straight out of the tap, and there is not gritty taste or funky smell.
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Old 12-28-2010, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Orlandooooooo
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What the hell? Do you people have like an INstant Water meter in your throats or some ****. It's water. I've never seen water judged to much. It's freakin water. My Gosh. In South Orange County the Water comes from the South Florida Water Management District and our water in South Orange County is FINE. It is drinkable without filtering. Lake County has some "Interesting" water as opposed to the actual city of Orlando and the rest of Orange County. I think they are in the St. Johns Water Management District.

I don't know many people who uses a filter in my neighborhood because the water is ok. SMH.
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Old 12-28-2010, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Virginia Beach
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A childhood buddy of mine works at a water treatment plant in Orlando and he took a bunch of us to see what the processing is from the toilet/wastewater and back into the water supply. Very interesting to see in action. Assuredly I now only drink tap if its at least filtered through my refrigerator.
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