Very chlorinated. But that is relatively simple to deal with.
It’s also very hard water from calcium. Even tho it doesn’t really affect the taste, its a PITA to deal with. It cruds up everything it comes in contact with. Toilet, showerhead, Pots and pans, coffeemaker, steamer, rice cooker, pet dishes etc etc. it’s just horrible.
I drink water from my well; it is delicious and cold. I often add ice, freshly squeezed lemon juice and some mint for a pleasing beverage. In high summer, I add also a little brewed tea and sugar.
The water just up the road burns my throat. I shudder at the thought of drinking/eating food prepared at that location. At home, it’s better, but I have a water purifier too.
I have a well at home. The water has a little iron, but tastes good. The water in the city where I work tastes slightly worse than cow piss. And it’s about the same color. Some days it’s so bad I won’t wash in it. I have washes in my desk.
Even the city water is excellent, but many homes that are on rural properties here in the Sierra Nevada foothills/mountains have wells. All water is Sierra snowpack runoff, and my old well was 600 ft. deep in solid granite. Deeelicious, mountain cold water.
I really notice how warm and funky other cities water is.
When you wash your face up here it really wakes you up! lol
I was in San Diego seeing friends a few years ago and I just kept running the water, waiting, waiting, for it to finally get COLD! Yuck…luke warm “cold” water. Gah, I’m spoiled after 22 years in the Sierras.
Just look at my goose in his sparkling mountain kiddie pool. haha
I think it’s fine (south Australia foothills) but my son who’s sort of a teenage moaner and groaner anyway refuses to drink it (chlorine, fluoride!!) so I buy some bottled water.
Ours is excellent. There was some fear that the Rim Fire in the Sierras might ruin the water, but it didn’t. I don’t understand why anyone in our community would buy bottled water but they do.
It doesn’t taste so that should mean it is good. Sure, it rains 10 months out of the year and we live in a valley. Glaciers in the Cascades melt during the summer and provide us with pure water during the summer. And Oregon doesn’t have a sales tax. </superiority>