Why Does My Water Taste Like Shit?
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Do you use ice from an automatic ice maker in it?
Sewage can only be recycled so many times before you develop that bad aftertaste.
That's just because the Northern (Southern for you Canooks) Rockies are fucking awesome in general.
Not really surprising when it's an entry level system, not a micro filter and not a water purifier.
After an outbreak here of giardia and cryptosporidium we made the mistake of buying one instead of investing in a water purifier. I knew it was a bad sign when I gave a bowl of water to the cat and he turned his nose up at it and went and drank from a puddle. Mind you, he is a fussy sod.
That's a load of crap, as you only get about 2% of your minerals from drinking water. You get all the necessary minerals from food.
Brita filters hardly filter shit.
Buy a distiller for 99.9% pure water or buy the $0.89 gallon jugs.
I half agree. Although I think people in general, drink too much "bottled" water, rather than just get a filter, there are defiantly times where it is convenient.
For example, generally speaking I would rather have it in a restaurant than take it out of the soda fountain. Having spent some time in the biz I know how easy it is for the ice to be contaminated. This is more so with top loaded units.
Also there are "lines" (plastic tubing) that run from the machine to wherever they store the syrup (in the back of the unit some place). These lines need to be cleaned out regularly, and often times are not, so mold grows in them. If your soda ever tastes off, it's either a brix ratio problem (the ratio of carbonated water and syrup) or mold. For that reason I just get bottled water as it's likely a safer product.
And Vancouver's is still awesome! I find after drinking Vancouver water all the time, I can really notice the taste difference when i travel.
I don't understand while locals buy so much bottled water here either. Not we have a I heart van brand that water is from an van island glacier and they donate 10% f profits monthly to charities around Vancouver. But your paying money for water that is basically the same from the tap. Just from a glacier that is further away.
It's the Brita water filter.
Had this issue as well.
The charcoal inside of it would leak out, and make the water taste awful.
Would never buy a Brita one again. Go with Pur, theirs are 1000x better.
Had this issue as well.
The charcoal inside of it would leak out, and make the water taste awful.
Would never buy a Brita one again. Go with Pur, theirs are 1000x better.
It's better than a lot of cities around the world, but it's not as good as it used to be. You can certainly taste the chlorine added to it now (Coquitlam also uses ozone), when you couldn't 30 years ago. The stuff that comes out of the tap isn't nearly as nice as what is delivered to offices for their coolers and whatnot which, depending on the company you go with, is treated underground glacial spring water vs snow cap runoff to the open reservoirs.
My dad used to work in sales for one of the biggest water companies back in the early 90s and they would send a tanker truck up somewhere around Whistler every day to fill up at one of the springs there and bring it back to their plant for additional RO filtration and bottling. That water was awesome.
It's not the same as the tap though, and you pay for what comes out of the tap too. Roughly at a base rate of about $200 a year plus $1-2 for every cubic meter you use, depending on which municipality you live in and the time of the year.
The lady who performed the colonic hydrotherapy on my wife and I a while back had a very unusual water filter. It was a carbon filter (like the black berkey that we use) but in the base it had these large round rocks. They looked like river rocks. I asked her about them and they are there to re-mineralize the water back to a natural state.
At home/office I use the black berkey w/ the additional fluoride filters to get that shit out of there. Speaking of if you are still using it in your toothpaste you need to cut that shit out ASAP.
At home/office I use the black berkey w/ the additional fluoride filters to get that shit out of there. Speaking of if you are still using it in your toothpaste you need to cut that shit out ASAP.
Take a sample and get it tested. I have well water where I live and try to do this about every two years. You never know what could be getting in there.
So...I took your advice and bought that gizmo.
Took measurements today of a few samples and here are my findings for dissolved solids in each water sample:
Distilled Water (room temp) - 0 ppm
Brita Filter (out of fridge) - 174 ppm
Brita Filter (room temp) - 223 ppm
Tap Water - 227 ppm
I'm guessing that the cold Brita water affected the reading a bit as the dissolved solids would still be the same.
So from this I can conclude that the Brita filter isn't doing shit to remove dissolved solids. I wonder if it's even removing lead or anything else that would be considered bad.