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New York City also has famously good water Not true! NYC does not have "famously good water". I found that out when I had to change my counter-top water filter
by finid 10y ago
New York City also has famously good water
Not true! NYC does not have "famously good water". I found that out when I had to change my counter-top water filter after about one year of use.
It was more than gross. Imagine having to drink that water without the benefit of a water filter. By the way, I don't think water people drink in many restaurants are filtered.
- anthotny 10y agoBut couldn't that just be the pipes in your building? The water comes from the Catskills, and when it leaves there, at least, it's extremely clean.
- teslabox 10y agoThe water towers on top of NYC buildings tend to not be maintained especially well: With their quaint barrel-like contours and weathered cedar-plank sides, rooftop water towers are a constant on the New York City skyline. And though they may look like relics of a past age, millions of residents get their drinking water from the tanks every day. But inside these rustic-looking vessels, there are often thick layers of muddy sediment. Many have not been cleaned or inspected in years. And regulations governing water tanks are rarely enforced, an examination by The New York Times shows. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/nyregion/inside-citys-water-tanks-layers-of-neglect.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/nyregion/inside-citys-wat... (warning: autoplay video)
- finid 10y agoThat the water at the source is clean may be true, but you judge the water by its nature at the final destination, because in the final analysis, that is where the grade of quality matters to those who'll be drinking it.
- notadoc 10y agoThe water sources to NYC are very high quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_sys... http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/24/nyregion/how-nyc-gets-its-water-new-york-101.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/24/nyregion/how-n... Anyway, all water filters get very funky after a year.
- finid 10y agoTrue, "all water filters get very funky after a year", that funkiness is an indication of the true quality of the water that reaches your house or apartment. That's how you tell what you'd have been drinking without filtration.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt might just be some calcium. The horror! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water
- finid 10y agoNope, what I saw in that filter wasn't calcium.
- notadoc 10y agoYou seem really bothered by this. What did you see in your filter after a year? Some tiny amount of algae? Some mineral deposits? Do you prefer your water taste like a chlorinated pool? Wait until you find out what's in your food!
- mentat 10y ago"more than gross" is hardly a scientific analysis of cleanliness, though I guess in line with this article (which is why I flagged it).
- finid 10y agoDid you want me to scientifically analyse my drinking water before I can comment about it on HN? I'm talking about the water that reaches my faucet, not the one somewhere upstate NY.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> Imagine having to drink that water without the benefit of a water filter. We don't have to imagine it. Plenty of people do. Concentrate a year's worth of tiny impurities and you'll wind up a bit of sludge, yes. You'd probably get it even with pure distilled water from dust and microbes in the air. Chances are you're breathing a lot more nasty in from taxi exhaust and human feces from farts than you're getting from that water.