STORM2K

With so much of our water supplies being contaminated, do you drink bottled water? Us.....NO, we don't have to, our water here in Pinetop is 99.99% PURE, requires very little to no treatment. Funny story, had a door to door salesman try to sell us a water treatment system, invited the guy in, he tested our water, turned WHITE as a sheet, packed his stuff up and said, "I couldn't even begin to sell you a system!" Our water is SOOOO cold that you don't even need ice for a ice water :o

Dennis 8)

That is excellent Mr. Snowman. Florida water is absolutely great too and pure. Not as cold as your though. We have excellent water via the Gulf of Mexico too.

Lucky you Dennis! I have to buy bottled water, as we only have well water in our house..yuck! It stinks, is brown and is sooo slimy. I go through about 4 gallons of bottled water a day!

That's truly a shame Amanzi, I wouldn't know how to handle water like that. I know when I was kid visiting my grandparents and uncles farms in the Panhandle of Texas, their water tasted like and looked like *pure iron* Yeeeech!

Dennis

The water, where I lived in Massachusetts had traces of iron in it, it was safe to drink, but the dishwasher would turn brown after several runs. We used to use something to clean it out when it got 'really bad.'

City water here. Good if not spectacular.

Amanzi... I was in the hair salon one morning and my hairdresser was trying to get the iron buildup out of a ladies hair brought on by well water!! Her hair was purple and green and it was coming off on the hairdressers hands!! I pity you having well water!!

My Wife just spent 100 bucks on a water dispenser and we can get 5 gallon water bottles for about 2 bucks I am excited when I get home I will always have fresh ICE COLD water and not have to buy little bottles any longer
Here in Kyrgyzstan we drink water ALL THE TIME but here is the KICKER.....ITS FROM FRANCE!!!

Aaron

Here in Puerto Rico we have a good water system so I dont have to relie in botteled water.

I never did until i started living in college dorms. Sometimes in my friends dorm the water comes out orangy-brown. So i gave in and started buying my sophomore year. I used to think it was a waste of money. I mean it costs more per gallon than gasoline! Even when gas was expensive haha.

Aaron...tell the French to take their water and... nevermind

Hang in there boss, We Miss You!

Dennis....I don't think our boys (now 26 and 30) had anything but "treated" or "bottled" water to drink since they were born.

Drinking tap water is something we just have never done as a matter of practice. Taste was always the issue...not necessarily fear of contiminants. While I was on the public works committee of our home town, I got a good look at our drinking water process. It was MORE than what was required by law, but it still tasted bad.

Now...the net result may be that our brains are smaller or non-existent...but we these days we also buy our ice. It's not "designer ice" though.

We leave that for the more uppity people here in "Snotsdale Arizona."

I have never had bottled water continously, however a few months after my parents and I moved to to central Florida our neighbor put in a water filter in our garage to filter our water. We still have "hard water" but it tastes better than it did, for the short time.

They say to have the filter changed every year, but we try to go a bit longer. It should be changed rather soon, but my father wants to put it off as longer as possible.

Sikeston has its own water treatment plant, which is fed by artesian wells and Mississippi sources; the contaminates are so miniscule that we are well above Federal standards, and the city population gets an update on the inspections mailed to us every year.

No bottled water here. Drink and use it right from the tap.

Lindaloo wrote:Amanzi... I was in the hair salon one morning and my hairdresser was trying to get the iron buildup out of a ladies hair brought on by well water!! Her hair was purple and green and it was coming off on the hairdressers hands!! I pity you having well water!!

LOL Linda,

I have brownish Auburn hair already, so guess the iron in the water has been adding to my red highlights! No purple or green YET! My hair is down to my waist and because the water here is so hard, it takes me about an hour to get a comb through it......lets just say Bob Marley has nothing on me when I have just stepped out of the shower!

I think it is the smell of the water that gets to me more than anything, it really does STINK! I will not even start on the build up of rust and lime on my dishes and my lovely orange shade of white clothes!

Living in this house has really been a test on me. I have had to learn to live with it (not only the water, but the fact that it is over 100 years old and in a horrible neighbourhood) However it has taught me to be greatful just to have a roof over my head! If we had to pay rent at this current time, we would never have been able to afford the lawyers fees we have had to pay. I have prayed very hard about getting out of this house, but over the course of the time we have been here I have seen God's wisdom in allowing me to be in this place, I pray daily for His grace to live here. I know it is not forever, and God alone knows the best place for me to be at this time in my life.

I have well water, but it isn't nearly as bad as what Amanzi has. It's very clean...although sometimes it will be discolored and occasionally it smells bad. I don't drink the stuff though. I rent a water cooler from Rainbow water. We get around 25 gallons of water per month. It ends up costing around $25 per month. It's WELL worth it (no pun intended)

LOL Marashall I agree!

Aaron