I believe the Mayor of Seattle was advocating selling Seattle tap water in a bottle - in frustration, as I understand it, after he got a lot of shit from trying to stop providing bottled water at city hall...
Municipal water standards are generally stricter than bottled ones... that being said, most tap water doesn't taste that great and here it's all from lake eerie. (And there are increases in cancer rates in people who live around the lake.) For this we created filters.
Seattle tap water is also pretty excellent; most of the people I've seen complain about Seattle water have bad pipes, or they've never been to California, or both.
I'm trying to remember if the water-delivery companies use local water or nationally distributed. That was always pretty good, and filtered more aggressively than a Brita pitcher can manage.
Yeah - Craig and I started using a filter at the apartment where the water tasted like celery. Not even bad so much as creepy. Redmond water can be moderately awful, especially during the summer. Woodinville water is actually excellent - it's this tiny but proud water district - but by then we were spoiled (the Woodinville house now has an undersink reverse osmosis filter. I sometimes think of getting one here, where it's really more needed, but the installation was such a pain...)
I'm not a fan of Brita pitchers, though they're better than nothing. Currently we're using a Pur filter - just one of the little attach to your tap things, but it's surprisingly effective. For the sweet spot of ease and efficacy I'd probably go for one of the thermos sized units you sit next to your sink.
Well, there is a lot of chlorine in the water on the hill, at least depending on which reservoir you draw from. Other than that, it's not too bad, but it's still enough to make a filter a very good thing.
seattle water is so weirdly regional; it sort of makes sense, but it's bizarre to my brain that water tastes seriously different in west seattle than it does in north seattle, but it does!
Municipal water standards are generally stricter than bottled ones... that being said, most tap water doesn't taste that great and here it's all from lake eerie. (And there are increases in cancer rates in people who live around the lake.) For this we created filters.
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I'm trying to remember if the water-delivery companies use local water or nationally distributed. That was always pretty good, and filtered more aggressively than a Brita pitcher can manage.
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I'm not a fan of Brita pitchers, though they're better than nothing. Currently we're using a Pur filter - just one of the little attach to your tap things, but it's surprisingly effective. For the sweet spot of ease and efficacy I'd probably go for one of the thermos sized units you sit next to your sink.
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