How do you get your drinking water?

[roxemama]

How do you get your drinking water? What is optimal?

[mamadelbosque]

From our well, via an electric pump pumping it throughout the house... or a handpump when the powers out

[PaulaJoAnne]

We have an artisian well. It has to be specially capped to prevent it from flooding the neighborhood , hence all we have is pump in the house to get it to the sinks, etc.

[mistymama]

We use a Brita water filter - I like the container that goes in the fridge so I can keep our drinking water ice cold.

[dogmom327]

City tap water (no fluoride) run through a Multi-Pure filter and we just got a water ionizer :

[benj]

we either buy water or use the filter. i live in arizona, the tap water is not clean.

[roxemama]

Originally Posted by dogmom327

City tap water (no fluoride) run through a Multi-Pure filter and we just got a water ionizer :

I want to stop buying the 5 gallons as I just found out they have BPA. We have south florida water that has alot of chorine. I want to get a some kind of filter but not sure which one. You like your Multi-Pure filter? What is the water ionizer?

[Hobie]

From our well. Yum!

[lil_earthmomma]

Reverse osmosis! We live in a tiny village and there are frequent boil advisories. We don't have to worry with the r/o unit, so that makes my life much MUCH easier.

[Mirzam]

Local glacial fed spring water in 5 gallon glass bottles.

[dogmom327]

Originally Posted by roxemama

I want to stop buying the 5 gallons as I just found out they have BPA. We have south florida water that has alot of chorine. I want to get a some kind of filter but not sure which one. You like your Multi-Pure filter? What is the water ionizer?

I do like the Multi Pure and thankfully I got it on Craig's List for really cheap. A water ionizer basically makes your drinking water more alkaline. DS and I have yeast issues so we find this helpful. There are lots of claims out there about how alkaline water is useful for fighting illness, etc. but ultimately it works for us for that specific purpose.

[tayndrewsmama]

We have a well, water softner and then throught the RO filter at the sink. The fridge water also goes through the filter in there too.

[Shantimama]

From the kitchen tap.

[weliveintheforest]

I drink the well water straight from the tap, but dh likes to put it through a Birkey filter.

[Llyra]

Our city water is from the river, treated and filtered. I spent a lot of time down at the water filtration plant when I was still working in community organizing, and I'm satisfied with the quality of the water.

[mean_jeannie]

We use reverse osmosis but I wanted to share a recent situation we had in our city. We are in FL where the dry season is severe from February through May. The drought was so significant this year that the city switched from using its usual source - the river - to an alternate source. We use a meter to measure the tds of our water. With the alternate source, it was more than three times higher than with the river water.

Water for thought. Municipal water is always supposed to be safe, but I see from this experience that it might not have to be good. One can't tell what solids are in water with a tds meter, but to have that kind of quality difference concerns me. Guess I will continue to rely on r/o.

[Purple*Lotus]

Originally Posted by Shantimama

From the kitchen tap.

Same here. It taste really good in my town.

[Pirate Nicole]

From our well. Electric pump under the house. The whole setup has probably been down there since the house was built in 1908. It can tasty a bit sulfery, so we just run it through a tap mounted brita filter.

Nicole

[Bri'sgirl]

From the tap, filtered by a Brita filter (2.5 gallon). Also, the fridge has filtered water on tap. I'd love to get a Birkey, though! The one with the fluoride filter.

[catnip]

We have an under-counter carbon block filter, because I don't drink enough if the option is straight tap water.