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In Arizona, "cold" water at the tap can easily be in the neighborhood of 100F/37C all summer. We kept a water filter pitcher in the fridge for drinking water, s

In Arizona, "cold" water at the tap can easily be in the neighborhood of 100F/37C all summer. We kept a water filter pitcher in the fridge for drinking water, so it wasn't really a problem there, but it did make it impossible to take a truly cool shower or follow a recipe that instructs you to rinse something in cold water.

theGnuMe 4y ago
I grew up in AZ.. just run the water until it cools down. Unless your showering from an outside hose it'll be 50 degrees just from being underground. If you aren't getting that then something is very wrong with your plumbing I'd recon. Like, the tap intake comes into the house after the swap cooler on the roof kind of thing. Plus the evap after the shower.. that'll cool you off.
- SECProto 4y ago
  You sure it'll be 50 deg? that's significantly colder than summer tap water in my Canadian city, which is closer to 70F at peak.
- kortilla 4y ago
  Not sure where you grew up, but most of the population gets tap water from the CAP, which means the water ran for hundreds of miles in canals across the desert before going into a water treatment plant. It’s 90F+ easily in the summer in any modern builds in Tuscon/Phoenix.
  - theGnuMe 4y ago
    Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Also you’ll notice no water towers. And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.
    - kortilla 4y ago
      > Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Not as part of the “to tap” process. > Also you’ll notice no water towers. Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals and the salt river reservoirs. > And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon. Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.
      - theGnuMe 4y ago
        >> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon. >Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation. If you can't even get the spelling of a major city in Arizona correct, your content is... as the kids like to say, "sus".
        kortilla 4y ago
        You’re still struggling to grasp any of the content. Your whole reply is only focused the response to your unrelated spelling dunk. Having such superficial interactions with the world is congruent with believing the meme that all of Arizona drinks well water though. I hope you do take some time some day to learn about the state you grew up in. The water projects are quite impressive engineering because there is no other option. The rural holdouts that pumped their groundwater dry learned that lesson the hard way.
        theGnuMe 4y ago
        Look dude it is you who doesn't understand how it works, at least as far as it concerns Tucson: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/70f626809fd84e228c0f32aef4222dda https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/70f626809fd84e228c0f32a... https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/water/docs/coloradoriver.pdf https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/water/docs/coloradoriver.pdf They tried "to the tap" and it pissed everyone off because the river water leeched out all of the rust in people's pipes.
- joe5150 4y ago
  Water lines in Arizona single family homes are very commonly routed through the attic, where they can get very hot, so your imagined scenario isn't really that far off from reality for a lot of people. I don't know how many gallons I would have to waste to get the tap to start delivering water at 50°F. I could run the faucet for several minutes and still get water that was body temperature or warmer.

theGnuMe 4y ago

I grew up in AZ.. just run the water until it cools down. Unless your showering from an outside hose it'll be 50 degrees just from being underground. If you aren't getting that then something is very wrong with your plumbing I'd recon. Like, the tap intake comes into the house after the swap cooler on the roof kind of thing. Plus the evap after the shower.. that'll cool you off.

SECProto 4y ago
You sure it'll be 50 deg? that's significantly colder than summer tap water in my Canadian city, which is closer to 70F at peak.
kortilla 4y ago
Not sure where you grew up, but most of the population gets tap water from the CAP, which means the water ran for hundreds of miles in canals across the desert before going into a water treatment plant. It’s 90F+ easily in the summer in any modern builds in Tuscon/Phoenix.
- theGnuMe 4y ago
  Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Also you’ll notice no water towers. And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.
  - kortilla 4y ago
    > Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers. Not as part of the “to tap” process. > Also you’ll notice no water towers. Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals and the salt river reservoirs. > And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon. Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.
    - theGnuMe 4y ago
      >> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon. >Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation. If you can't even get the spelling of a major city in Arizona correct, your content is... as the kids like to say, "sus".
      - kortilla 4y ago
        You’re still struggling to grasp any of the content. Your whole reply is only focused the response to your unrelated spelling dunk. Having such superficial interactions with the world is congruent with believing the meme that all of Arizona drinks well water though. I hope you do take some time some day to learn about the state you grew up in. The water projects are quite impressive engineering because there is no other option. The rural holdouts that pumped their groundwater dry learned that lesson the hard way.
        theGnuMe 4y ago
        Look dude it is you who doesn't understand how it works, at least as far as it concerns Tucson: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/70f626809fd84e228c0f32aef4222dda https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/70f626809fd84e228c0f32a... https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/water/docs/coloradoriver.pdf https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/water/docs/coloradoriver.pdf They tried "to the tap" and it pissed everyone off because the river water leeched out all of the rust in people's pipes.
joe5150 4y ago
Water lines in Arizona single family homes are very commonly routed through the attic, where they can get very hot, so your imagined scenario isn't really that far off from reality for a lot of people. I don't know how many gallons I would have to waste to get the tap to start delivering water at 50°F. I could run the faucet for several minutes and still get water that was body temperature or warmer.