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People with experience working in and around municipal water infrastructure: Do you drink tap water? Are there times when you do not? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This question is obviously intended for those that live in places where tap water is "safe to drink."

I live in Southern California, where I'm at the end of a long chain of cities. Occasionally, the tap smells of sulfur, hardness changes, or it tastes... odd. I'm curious about the perspective of people that are directly involved and their reasoning.

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[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Where I am most people are happy to drink the tap water, and we're all oddly proud of it. Which is fair, it's great water. Very soft too, I remember seeing ads on TV for products to remove limescale but that doesn't really happen here much. I find it a little odd that some places' tap water is so full of impurities that it leaves mineral deposits on their appliances.

Come to Scotland, try our tap water!

[–] amio@kbin.social 20 points 7 months ago

Those aren't necessarily impurities in the nasty sense, just mineral content.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Scotland and North-West England have excellent tap water. The water in the Midlands and London is perfectly safe to drink, but it certainly has a taste to it.

[–] Devi@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

Severn Trent (the midlands) is often voted the best tap water in the UK.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

If you wish to taste some Finnish ones, I'm sure I can bottle and ship some of our tapwater for you guys to taste.

https://mediconnection.fi/en/water-finland-purest-world/