Why move to a place that you can't drink the water?

[Rings Я Us]

If you move to a place that you can't drink the water and have to buy drinking water I really think your not to smart.. lol I can see if it's a seasonal cottage your there 3 or 4 months a year. But to live some place you can't drink the local water? Big deal breaker for me.. I have no sympathy for those who buy all their water..
Lucky me.. my water is good and clean and tastes good.. the people here that buy water are just candy azzes [emoji]128514[/emoji] Feel sorry for people in zones with bad water.. but I wouldn't live there in the 1st place..
Watching tv and news of the new hurricane.. why all these people buying water? Why not fill jugs at your house for almost free before the storm hits? Like I say, if your municipal water or well water is not drinkable, you shouldn't be there in the 1st place. That's a deal breaker when it comes to moving into a new home.. shame shame..

My rant! [emoji]129299[/emoji] good luck to all our friends in the hurricane path.. Be safe .

 

[daveomak]

No electricity for the city pumps to run or the water associations to operate...

 

[Rings Я Us]

No electricity for the city pumps to run or the water associations to operate...

I'm watching people on the news all running out to buy water and all the shelves are empty... this is all before the storm. They all have power and the storm hasn't hit there.. why don't they just buy a bunch of jugs like 5 gal containers to put there own tap water in? . I'm thinking these people don't drink their own tap water and go buy it at stores. It's really a waste of money if you ask me.. and if I buy a house to set up for years to come, I wouldn't buy a place that has nasty water. That's a deal breaker.

 

[atomicsmoke]

I don't know about the "people in the news" but for others water became bad after they have been living there for a long time: Flint, Michigan for instance.

 

[Rings Я Us]

Yes I live by Flint..
You know what though?.. since the 1930s when people moved from the farms to the cities and after WW2, the drinking water has been wonderful here near Detroit.. some of the best clean tasting stuff in the country.. Something happened in the 80s however. I noticed restaurants selling bottled water and then stores and everywhere.. people that had gone 4 generations drinking home tap water all of a sudden started buying bottled water by the car loads.. I just don't get what happened there.. the water is the same as what's in those bottles as far as I can tell.

.. Like I say though,why don't people prep for a storm just get a few collapsible camping containers and fill them instead of spending $200 on cases of bottled water? They must have moved to a place that has nasty water.. or they have more money than brains? I could see if it was a summer cottage and the well water tasted bad..

 

[GaryHibbert]

Can't say I agree with you Rings. Ten years ago we bought 10 acres of bush land to build our home on. Had to drill our well 210 feet through clay to hit an aquifer. The water is unbelievably soft. Great for everything (cooking, washing, etc) except a glass of cold water so we buy bottled for drinking. Small price to pay for this:

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• GaryHibbert
• Sep 6, 2017

Gary

 

[atomicsmoke]

Yes I live by Flint..
You know what though?.. since the 1930s when people moved from the farms to the cities and after WW2, the drinking water has been wonderful here near Detroit.. some of the best clean tasting stuff in the country.. Something happened in the 80s however. I noticed restaurants selling bottled water and then stores and everywhere.. people that had gone 4 generations drinking home tap water all of a sudden started buying bottled water by the car loads.. I just don't get what happened there.. the water is the same as what's in those bottles as far as I can tell..

People eat out instead of cooking, buy coffee instead of making it at home and spend money on things that to others appear unecessary. Bottled water is just another one.

One of my kids can't drink tap water (our tap water is good). So while the rest of us drink tap water i stil have to buy bottled water.

 

[Rings Я Us]

Can't say I agree with you Rings. Ten years ago we bought 10 acres of bush land to build our home on. Had to drill our well 210 feet through clay to hit an aquifer. The water is unbelievably soft. Great for everything (cooking, washing, etc) except a glass of cold water so we buy bottled for drinking. Small price to pay for this:

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• GaryHibbert
• Sep 6, 2017

Gary

Beautiful [emoji]128526[/emoji].

What do you do if it's the 1950s and 60s and you have 6 people there raising kids? There was no such thing as store bought water

 

[Rings Я Us]

I think people just have it in there heads now that municipal water is bad for you and everyone jumps on the bandwagon here . I drink the same water as all the other people have in my city.. yet thousands go buy water . It tastes very good from the tap. You may not be able to tell bottled from tap.

 

[browneyesvictim]

I wouldn't want to have to buy water either.  I'm on a well but all the tests show it has a very high level of arsenic. I knew this before I moved in 6 years ago. When I bought the house I put in a very expensive whole-house filtration system to remove the arsenic (and other stuff). It has worked VERY well. Now I am spoiled with REALLY GOOD water and cant stand drinking municipal water or just about anywhere else! Even the ice you get out of a machine for a fountain soda is awful tasting anymore.

Along this process I learned a lot about water quality. I gave a lot of thought about a persons health that comes from the water they drink and consume in every other way. I would recommend everyone  -right now- go and order online or go to a hardware store locally and pick up some home water test kits and test the water you drink and consume every day. Better yet- have it professionally tested. The CDC recommends you do this regularly anyway if you have a well. But do you trust your municipality is keeping up on their end if you drink out of the tap?

 

[Rings Я Us]

I wouldn't want to have to buy water either.  I'm on a well but all the tests show it has a very high level of arsenic. I knew this before I moved in 6 years ago. When I bought the house I put in a very expensive whole-house filtration system to remove the arsenic (and other stuff). It has worked VERY well. Now I am spoiled with REALLY GOOD water and cant stand drinking municipal water or just about anywhere else! Even the ice you get out of a machine for a fountain soda is awful tasting anymore.

Along this process I learned a lot about water quality. I gave a lot of thought about a persons health that comes from the water they drink and consume in every other way. I would recommend everyone  -right now- go and order online or go to a hardware store locally and pick up some home water test kits and test the water you drink and consume every day. The CDC recommends you do this regularly anyway if you have a well. But do you trust your municipality is keeping up on their end if you drink out of the tap?

That's a bummer.

 

[keithu]

My dad lives on the side of a mountain in Nevada and his well is 1200 feet deep. What comes out of it is unpleasant to drink. He has a couple of separate taps connected to a reverse-osmosis filtration system for drinking water. The RO system was a bit of an investment, but it's way cheaper and easier than bottled water in the long run. If your tap water is legitimately unhealthy this is an option.

 

[Rings Я Us]

My dad lives on the side of a mountain in Nevada and his well is 1200 feet deep. What comes out of it is unpleasant to drink. He has a couple of separate taps connected to a reverse-osmosis filtration system for drinking water. The RO system was a bit of an investment, but it's way cheaper and easier than bottled water in the long run. If your tap water is legitimately unhealthy this is an option.

I understand.. I was actually talking about the masses of people in the city and suburban cities and towns that have municipal water that is perfectly good. Bunch of stories of people worried they can't get bottled water.. the majority of these folks just think that city water is not drinkable I guess. It's the same here by me. People buy water even though ours is world class stuff.

Those bottled water companies sprang up in the 80s and 90s .. there was no bottled water before that. Now the got everyone buying it even if they don't need it.. multi billion dollar a year industry.

 

[noboundaries]

I remember visiting my grandparent's farm in West Virginia when I was 12 years old. Their well water smelled like rotten eggs due to the oil deposits and sulphur in the area. Taste was horrible too. They were so used to it they didn't even notice.

To accommodate me, they put a pitcher of their water in the refrigerator. The stuff that settled out of the water was disgusting, but at least it became
drinkable.

Memories of showers on the farm still turn my stomach, but make for great stories!

 

[GaryHibbert]

Beautiful [emoji]128526[/emoji].

What do you do if it's the 1950s and 60s and you have 6 people there raising kids? There was no such thing as store bought water

When I was growing up the well water was so hard it was almost solid in the glass. LOL We just drank it. If I was raising kids and there was no such thing as bottled water then the kids would have been raised on soft water and wouldn't even think there was anything wrong with it.

Gary

 

[Rings Я Us]

I remember visiting my grandparent's farm in West Virginia when I was 12 years old. Their well water smelled like rotten eggs due to the oil deposits and sulphur in the area. Taste was horrible too. They were so used to it they didn't even notice.

To accommodate me, they put a pitcher of their water in the refrigerator. The stuff that settled out of the water was disgusting, but at least it became
drinkable.

Memories of showers on the farm still turn my stomach, but make for great stories!

Before the days of the home water purification system.. people put up with it yeah.. my relations up in the upper peninsula Michigan had iron taste in theirs. Didn't bother them much. Us kids hated their water.

 

[chilerelleno]

For people without an actual good reason... It's the same reason they spend a fortune at coffee houses every day on overpriced brew.

 

[Rings Я Us]

For people without an actual good reason... It's the same reason they spend a fortune at coffee houses every day on overpriced brew.

40 years of bottled water should figure into the cost of the home I guess. [emoji]128556[/emoji]

 

[gmc2003]

Ring a little judgmental aren't you. People in those cities are probably just a little weary of whats put into their water. How much chlorine, fluoride or whatever is added. I grew up in Burlington with city tap water, then I moved to the country with well water. I love my well water and now hate drinking Burlington's tap water. What you grow up with is what you think is good. Bottled water(most) is filtered without additives. It does taste different then city tap water which is sterilized with chemicals. I don't know, maybe old rusty lead pipes add a certain flavor profile to water that you like. Not for me. As for the victims of natural disasters, how do you know they didn't stockpile their own water first, and then supplement it with bottled water. 

Chris

 

[Rings Я Us]

Lol it's a conversation for fun.. I don't care what those people do. I just don't want to see another story on tv about no water