How is your water?
By Amber
@AmbiePam (109731)
United States
January 9, 2026 2:09pm CST
I drink bottled water (yes, I recycle). I didn’t always, but the water at my apartment tastes terrible. I used to be able to tolerate it because I’d put it in the freezer to get it ice cold. That quit working, and eventually putting things like Mio couldn’t overcome the taste. I DID get it tested by the city (they do it for free), and they said they it didn’t test positive for any of the bad things they test (for).
Funny thing is, my dad’s water comes from the same source as my apartment water. Lest you think it’s in my head, my dad can’t even stand the water from my sink, and he only drinks tap water. I asked around, and no one drinks the water in this apartment complex. Even the manager brings water from her home. We all just figure it’s the old pipes.
“Luckily”, you can buy a 24 pack of bottled water from Walmart for $3.00 (what it cost me two weeks ago). Just one gallon in a jug is even cheaper.
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17 responses
@Nakitakona (59127)
• Philippines
9h
Before we had a good potable water coming from a spring. Now it tsstes bad due to the eruption of Mt. Canlaon. So we buy bottled mineral water insread.
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@snowy22315 (201183)
• United States
12h
My water is good, comes from a deep well but I am not convinced there are no contaminants in it so I mostly drink bottled.
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@xstitcher (37406)
• Petaluma, California
5h
My water tastes okay. I like to put it in the fridge to get it cold.
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@DaddyEvil (165319)
• United States
14h
Our water has a slight chlorine taste but not nearly as strong as surrounding towns/cities. It tastes fine to us. I even drank the water from the Walmart fountains in Republic when I worked there and it tastes strongly of chlorine. *shrug*
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@AmbiePam (109731)
• United States
13h
What’s even more odd that if I take a shower at my apartment my skin breaks out in a terrible rash. When I shower at my dad’s house nothing happens. I even changed the shower head, but it doesn’t matter. My skin breaks out and itches like crazy.
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@Deepizzaguy (117124)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
9h
I drink bottled water since it is better for me than drinking water from the home which is only average.
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@NJChicaa (125881)
• United States
13h
I drink the tap water here. It is fine IMO.
I don't like using bottled water. Even though we recycle plastic around here I still feel guilty about it. I have a big Stanley tumbler that I use. At work we have water filling stations. In the morning here I fill it up with ice cubes but don't add the water until I get to work. It just makes my work bag a bit less heavy.
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@AmbiePam (109731)
• United States
13h
I admit I feel bad about it too. I took a tumbler to Disneyland, and it was so much more convenient because they had water filling stations, and then when we’d stop at a fast food place I’d just fill it to the top. It never leaks unlike bottled water. Well, the cheap bottled water I buy leaks, anyway.
I figured it also had to be the pipes because when I take a shower here my skin breaks out in a rash, and I itch. Nothing happens when I shower at my parent’s home.
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@thislittlepennyearns (65913)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
8h
Our fridge has a walter filter thingy in it. But honestly I either drink bottled or use my Cirkul its supposed to filter and flavor the water. lol.
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@Treborika (18172)
• Mombasa, Kenya
4h
Drinking fresh bottled water is more safer for the healthy.
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@FourWalls (81715)
• United States
13h
Our water is remarkably good and tasteless, considering where it comes from (the Ohio River).
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@RasmaSandra (92718)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11h
I do what my mother did all her life: I boil my water and keep it cold in a jug in the fridge.
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