How do you guys get drinking water? (Raleigh, Durham: chapel, maintenance)

[RedZin]

We have a whole-house filter plus UV light treatment.

We also have a fridge with a filter, so I guess that water is pretty highly filtered by the time we get it, I don't know.



If you drink that much water, you should invest at least in a Brita filter for the tap or a Brita pitcher... or both.

That's an awful lot of water to be drinking out of plastic bottles. Most of that stuff is just tap water anyway.

As bottled water goes, I like Fiji and Voss. They taste like nothing. At all. Which is how I like my water.

[boardjnky4]

When we living in City of Raleigh, we typically just drank tap water. Never had an issue with it.

Now we're on well water, and we're using water filtered through a silt filter, then our fridge filter. We have a sulfer smell in our water that carbon filters erase, so once that's done, the water in the whole house will be drinkable.

[jelenap]

We are in Cary and use fridge water. Filter needs to be changed once every 6 months or some gazillion of gallons that we never exceeded. Filter costs just over $20 online. I don't drink tap water but fridge filtered water tastes the same as bottled.

I think Whole Foods has a machine that refills bottles with water and you just reuse bottles and pay for water. At least it's a more eco-friendly alternative to disposing of bottles all the time.

[Pixel_Dent]

I drink Apex water right from the tap. Tastes fine to me.

[newbee2]

We're in Cary and always drink tap water.

It is considered generally safe if it comes from a public water system in the United States, such as one run and maintained by a municipality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to monitor all public water systems and sets enforceable health standards regarding the contaminants in drinking water.
Source: Safe Drinking Water: Tap Water, Bottled Water, & Water Filters

[JO783]

I'm actually shocked how many people are drinking bottled or filtering. Our people concerned about health or just taste?

We just do straight tap. In Durham.

[mlhm5]

I use the https://goo.gl/EPV932

[Renownedtheworldaround]

The water is okay in Durham, but it has a slight taste to it. I've seen a person or two express dissatisfaction with Durham's water, but the taste doesn't really bother me much. I drink a mix of both tap water (no filter) and bottled water (case of 24)

[mlhm5]

I use the DOULTON-W9331032 UltraCarb HCPS Countertop Filter System - I bought it from Amazon $117

[NRaleigh Mom]

We fill our glass from the fridge (has a filter). We notice no difference between bottled and this. I actually prefer it over bottles though due to all that plastic. As for how often we change the filter....the fridge tells us when and it is not that often or expensive.