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Are you from one of these cities listed? If so, don't drink your tap water - even boiled.

Asked by Zen_Again (9931points) December 12th, 2009
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Pensacola, FL
Riverside, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Riverside County, CA
Reno, NV
Houston, TX
Omaha, NE
North Las Vegas, NV
San Diego, CA
Jacksonville, FL

On the other hand, these cities boast great tap water suitable for drinking:

Arlington, TX
Providence, RI
Fort Worth, TX
Charleston, SC
Boston, MA
Honolulu, HI
Austin, TX
Fairfax County, VA
St. Louis, MO
Minneapolis, MN

Do you drink tap water anyway? Isn’t it sad that we have to buy water from bottles, pollute the environment with them, AND pay for flowing (yucky) tap water, too? Like in Africa, only they don’t have taps.

Sad. “Here’s the full article for librarian types”: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscious_consumer/110/cities-with-best-and-worst-tap-water.html

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gemiwing's avatar

What is this ‘water’ of which you speak? eyes beer

I lived in Florida for about five years. Horrible water from the tap. It’s sad to have to buy water in a bottle, yet the alternative in FL was sulfur-water. Ick.

rooeytoo's avatar

We have one of those super duper filters so all drinking and cooking water gets filtered before we use it. Saves buying bottles of water and polluting the world. I also carry a metal bottle with me instead of buying water.

aidje's avatar

St. Louis has good water? I’m surprised. It doesn’t taste particularly pure. Or maybe outlying suburbs don’t count.

jrpowell's avatar

The top ten are not surprising. Not many natural sources for water around there. Is this where I tell Cali to fuck off and stop stealing our water?

Capt_Bloth's avatar

Palmer Lake, Colorado has the best drinking water. Period.

DominicX's avatar

From the article: “Experts still agree that drinking tap is preferable to drinking bottled water. Bottled water is much more expensive than tap, it takes a huge toll on the planet, and it’s not necessarily any safer than tap. “Bottled water is not regulated in the same way as tap water,” says Olga Naidenko, a senior scientist at EWG. “With bottled water, consumers often do not know what they are getting, and 25 to 40 percent of bottled water on the market is simply tap poured into a bottle.”

To add, I grew up in Las Vegas, NV, and I drank the tap water. Don’t seem to have any long-term damage from drinking it.

sjmc1989's avatar

This makes me so happy to have spring water!

sevenfourteen's avatar

I’m from the poland spring area ( in good ol’ maine) – we have great water :)

Haleth's avatar

I saw that article today. I’m really surprised that Washington DC didn’t make the worst list, because we have the nastiest tap water ever. It tastes brackish, metallic, and chlorine-y all at the same time. Blech.

faye's avatar

Red Deer, Alberta has great tap water, thank god! Haven’t I heard that Calfornia would like some Alberta water?

YARNLADY's avatar

I have always insisted on filtered water when living and visiting in Southern California. I lived in Santa Barbara and in San Diego, and neither city has drinkable tap water.

Freedom_Issues's avatar

Ohhhh yes! Minneapolis has great water!

downtide's avatar

I’m surprised that New York isn’t on the “good” list. The one time I visited the US, I stayed with a friend in Brooklyn, and I asked if the tapwater was ok to drink. She gave me a funny look and said “of course it is”. And she was right, it was easily as good as the water I get at home (Manchester, UK) which has great tapwater too.

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