Do you know if your water is safe to drink?

I'm alive... pretty much.

Not certain if it's all that good for me, but I'd feel a lot better if I had one of those water filter systems.

We haven't gotten sick from it in over eight years of living here and drinking the water. But I suppose one can never be entirely sure.

I hope so, I have a filter.

I assume it is.

I think so. Supposedly water is cleaner today than it was 50 years ago. (I mean not counting Katrina water or anything.) But I still only drink water I buy from the grocery store for some reason. Go figure.

Yep, it is

I'm hoping there's some Ambien in it, because I've been having trouble sleeping.

Not truly... but I really like it. Cincinnati's tap water is the best I've ever tasted, but maybe it's because it is what I'm used to.

I just read the article recently about what kind of drugs are found in water all over the country -- byproducts of reusing waste water... Cincinnati's main find was caffeine.. Half of that's probably from me, my coffee, and my incompetent bladder.

I grew up with a certain amount of pride and more knowledge than most people about our city's water supply. My dad worked for the city water department for 35 years. For instance, I can tell by taste when the water is being pulled from the Ohio river vs. from the aquifer/wells. This varied throughout the year.... but my dad could always confirm my guess. I believe now they mix the two... but taste can vary...

Yes, it's just disgusting. It's hard, so I can taste all the sediments,

I usually test my water before I drink or cook with it, a simple little test and cheap, I keep a few gold fish on hand and I just pop a little Goldie in the glass and wait for a little while if the fish doesn’t look ill or die I drink it, anyone can do this test and will be assured their water if oky doky!

Yes, I drink it and I'm not dead yet, so it must be safe to drink.
We get little annual reports about the water quality and it's always safe to drink. It doesn't taste all that great straight out of the tap, but I use a Brita filter so it tastes great by the time I'm drinking it.
In Minnesota the water, while safe, tasted absolutely terrible. It had so much sediment in it that it was like drinking chalk. I had to descale my teapot every week or two. Using a filter didn't help. I ended up getting my drinking water from a special tap on campus that filtered the water through reverse osmosis. Every few days I would fill up a big plastic bottle and take that home with me. Thank goodness someone told me about that, or I would have been buying water at the store.

Why yes , I have well water and it has been tested and they do let us know plus we have city water along with
this mountain water , it was shocking to hear what they find in the water in major cities hormones and all kinds of
drugs even drugs like birth control pills and pain relievers they find in the water

> I'm hoping there's some Ambien in it, because I've been having trouble
> sleeping.

Rest assured Bill there is plenty of Ambiem in your water and hey even birth control pills and Viagra is in your water

> I usually test my water before I drink or cook with it, a simple little
> test and cheap, I keep a few gold fish on hand and I just pop a little
> Goldie in the glass and wait for a little while if the fish doesn’t
> look ill or die I drink it, anyone can do this test and will be assured
> their water if oky doky!
>
>

You could also test your water with aquarium fish if they die that water is no good Kc?

I keep my gold fish in an aquarium.

If the fish look too content, there's probably opiate painkillers in the water.

I wonder which city has the best drugs in the water...

My back hurts like a mo.

> I keep my gold fish in an aquarium.

Are your goldfish still alive Kc ?

> If the fish look too content, there's probably opiate painkillers
> in the water.
>
> I wonder which city has the best drugs in the water...
>
> My back hurts like a mo.

You should see what happens when male fish get female hormones ? makes me wonder if this is happening with men
around us or men in our lives and i knew something was wrong with him

Gulp! What goldfish?

> If the fish look too content, there's probably opiate painkillers
> in the water.
>
> I wonder which city has the best drugs in the water...
>
> My back hurts like a mo.

San Francisco has the best water with drugs

Maybe some Prozac too.

I have a (damn good) whole house water filter so I can say Yes. BUT if it didn't go through a filter it's still OK, but I wouldn't want to drink it every day all day. So I say no. On some days, like after a big rain I wouldn't trust the water at all so I say I can be not certain. And of course I have something to say about this.
Safe is a matter of opinion. I trust no one with a scientific degree working for the government.

Yes - tap water in the UK is generally extremely good, and the water where I live especially so.

Hmmmm, maybe this is why I have been craving water?!?

make it safe boil it then cool & drink

Probally not. We drink bottle water.

I don't know, but I don't really drink the water.

I am a big fan of tap water and I think people who drink bottled water are suckers.

I have heard that the bottled water drinkers do have a sort of fetish of needing to suck on bottles.

Our water comes from a private, underground well.

lol

Yes it is, and your link is no help at all.

Prolly....I've well water.

Our tap water comes from a private well. Other than that, we get bottled water.