The fridge is now hooked up!

SInce I live in the city, I only have access to public tap water. I don't mind it, because I like the taste. The only problem I have against it is that I live in a old building so the water really taste bad coming through those old pipes. Sometimes, it is white, and smoky, and it is cold water. I really don't believe in buying bottled water, especially if the tap water is good, and some of the bottled water is tap anyway. The other reason that I don't buy bottle water is that I drink a lot of it at once, as in entire gallon. It works out for me because it it cheaper, but it is not refrigerated (aarrrgh!!! Why can't the store refrigerate these things). So I have to buy a small stockpile to cool off before I drink it. Now that we are going into the summer, with all of these hot days in front of us, I would carry two gallons of water with me wherever I go (yes, I consume this much in a day, sometimes three if I am working hard enough). I am a big boy, so I can easily slam a nice, cold, gallon of water. It makes no sense to drink warm water on a warm day. At home, to avoid having to discard all of those jugs, I fill them up with my filtered water pitcher. The filter says that it can treat 40 gallons of water, and should be changed every 2 months. It is a time consuming process because the pitcher does not hold a gallon of water (unlike my stomach). I have done the calculations and this means that I have to change the filter every 20 days. So at two gallons a day average, I am drinking 60 gallons of water a month. I live by the Great Lakes, but the way I drink, one of them is going to be empty. I don't use a filter on the faucet because it would sit too low in the sink. But I also have to change the jugs sometimes, because they can get funky after a while.

I don´t mind drinking water from the faucet and in fact I prefer that water instead of a Coke or another soft drink. I usually drink plain water and when I´m very thirsty, I add some drops of lemon to the water.

because my nose is stuffy a good part of the time, it effects my tasting so my taop water tastes fine to me, however, the rest of my family would disagree so we buy bottled water (i am trying to convince my family to change to something like a brita.)

Hi. alaskanray. I don't like drinking nasty water either. My grandmother's water is very nasty. It has a nasty taste to it. My aunt, her daughter, brings water from her house in big jugs so that she can drink her water. Her water taste good. She probably has the same kind of drinking water that my in-laws used to have when they lived in their old house a four years ago. We ran out of our Deer Park water here at home, so I turned the kitchen faucet on and I let the hot water run for about two minutes, I then filled up the water jug with hot water so that we could drink it. I then placed this jug into the freezer and it took about four hours for this water jug to get really cold. The water tasted good then. My aunt taught me this trick many years ago when I was staying with her for the summer. She said that when the water is nasty, we should boil the water first, or let the water get very hot so that it can be poured into the water jug. I would like to buy a water filter too. I believe that these filters make the water taste really clean and fresh then.

When I was a kid in Southern California, we had a Culligan machine in the garage. The Culligan guys came every once in a while and filled it with salt stuff. It is probably much cheaper than having a filter on the faucet. It also will help keep hard water scale out of your washer and off your shower walls.

I am really picky about my water. Where I live, we do not have well water but rather city water. It is ok, but not the best that I have had. I live in a complex and it doesn't seem as though we have a water softener, so the water is pretty hard. I have a pitcher of water in the fridge, which makes the water taste a little better. I used to have a filtered water pitcher, but I cannot afford to buy the filters right now. One of my friends has well water and when I take a shower there I can smell the water. When I brush my teeth there, I use bottled water. Even with the water from the fridge's water filter, I can taste the minerals. Maybe it's somewhat psychological, and maybe my thoughts would be different if I grew up with well water, but I have always had city water. I wish I had a fridge with a ice maker and water filter. Someday I will...