Cool, clear water
| Today I found in my mailbox a booklet sent to me by Seattle Public Utilities. Maybe you got it, too? It’s entitled Drinking Water Quality: A Report to the Community 2006. Inside there are a bunch of pretty photos of water in various forms and a photo of a hand clutching spaghetti over a steaming pot. I get that the steaming pot is full of water but the photo is so unlike all the others (which are all of a theme) that it is jarring. Or maybe it’s just me. |  |
Anyway, the report talks about the great efforts we’ve been making in conserving water around here and reiterates that Seattle has amongst the highest quality water in the nation. I keep hearing this but while it makes fine coffee, tea or Kool-aid, the tap water in my apartment isn’t particularly pleasant to drink. Maybe it’s because I live in an old building with old pipes? How about you, Seattle? Is your tap water pleasant? Let me know. And read the booklet when you get it, it’s interesting.
I live in a duplex, but my water is excellent.
Um, WHAT? Seattle’s tap water, in every facility I have ever tried it in in my years of living here, was, without fail excellent. I never understood the call of bottled water till I left the city. I love Seattle’s water…I once heard they wanted to bottle it and sell it to other cities?
The water in Ballard is so heavily chlorinated that I was unable to drink it when I lived there, unless I ran a pitcherful and let it sit on the counter for a couple of days.
Seriously, I LOVE the water in Seattle. It’s as good (better?) than most bottled stuff.
I usually “bottle” Seattle water myself and put it in the fridge to chill. (i’m told it releases the chlorine, but mostly I just like the extra cold)
You don’t know “bad” water until you live in a place where most water is from a well. THAT is terrible.
Zee-Yup, it’s probably your pipes. You should see what grows in those things in some of the older buildings. There’s probably a large deposit of sediment around the inner lining of the pipe. Those sediments can alter the taste of your water. I agree that Seattle water is some of the best I’ve ever had. I grew up on the Eastside of the state out in the middle of nowhere (Finley, WA. Look it up, it’s in the middle of nowhere) where we had well water. I can’t stand it to this day.
I never understood bottled water because I grew-up in Seattle. The stuff tastes exactly the same as the bottle of tap water I keep in my fridge. However, when I went to Mexico and the water sprayed on you from off the streets and you smelt like you just bathed in a cow trough, then I understood bottled water.
If they could just carbonate the tap water here, I’d never have to buy another bottle of water again - ever!
The tap water from the Mediterranean Inn tastes like someone first washed their dishes/laundry in it. That must be why they have bottled water all over the place there. Someone I know in West Seattle, his tap water is slightly brown.
My boyfriend and I had to buy a Brita water filtering pitcher when we lived in the U-District because of the fact that the water tasted pretty bad. Nevertheless, taking showers with Seattle city water would leave my skin hella dry AND I would smell like chlorine.
I don’t get it, but does anyone?