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Looked more like tea

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Do you know for sure it wasn't?

I imagine taps dispensing tea to be the most wonderfully Yorkshire thing, actually.

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It tasted like tea after adding the tea bag. The colour didn't change. It was more like a mud taste without the tea bag.

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And when all's said and done, isn't that all that matters :D

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Quite fancy a cup now.

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I am drinking a cup right now

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This is my fourth house with well water and I've never experienced anything like that! Just good fresh water, no taste, no color, no odor.

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We have a well for irrigation. It smells like sewage. I certainly wouldn't consider drinking it. :sick:

The house is on city water and has a slight chlorine smell. We have an under-sink reverse osmosis filter which gives 99.99% pure H2O which we use for all cooking and drinking.

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Our house has well water, and beautiful it is too, just with a little inert black sand that the disposable filter takes care of. I never want to have to go back to a city/mains water supply.

When we first moved here, I told my mother our home had well water, and and she thought that meant we had to fetch it from an open well, using a bucket! :rofl:

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Ours was pish :lol:. Plus, our town didn't have a water tower either so pressure was shite, too. I was very happy to be back on city water when we moved.

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So do you mean that the town supplied the well water, it didn't come from your own well in the yard? Perhaps that is the difference -- my water comes right off my property -- or rather from deep beneath it!

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I doubt the town supplied it, at least actively, because it wasn't much more than fly shit on the map - unincorporated and tiny. A town in name only, really.

Also, it was a rental, so I never really cared that much to look into it in any detail.

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Our city water is top notch, comes from a deep glacier fed aquifer. Bottled water companies have access to wells in the area to bottle and sell our local water, Nestle is one. They do have to add chlorine now, but up until around 2012/2013 it was chlorine free.

The water has a very low mineral content, and is on the soft side. In Metro Vancouver the water is so soft naturally, and acidic they have to add some buffers to raise the ph so its more appropriate for drinking and of course the pipes likely don;t like soft acidic water. Taste is still top notch.

Still not pure enough for my marine aquarium though, so I have to run the water through a sediment/carbon/RO/DI system before mixing the salt.

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Can't really taste the difference between Charlotte city water and back in England. For my next house I am open to having well water.

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How do you deal with pesticides and all the other stuff that ends up in the water system if you have a well?