Reply #31: I stopped drinking tap water 20 years ago. [View All]

[in_cog_ni_to]

I use to live in a rural area that had a very high water table which meant that it flooded easily and if any dangerous chemicals were ever dumped somewhere nearby, they would make it into our water. I use to see these semi trucks drive by on a weekly basis LOADED with big drums of SOMETHING :scared: so I followed them one day and found they had dumped and buried the drums in a secluded area and I decided at that point, no more tap water for me. The drums were unmarked and I had no clue what was in them, BUT I wasn't about to drink the water that came out of our faucet and find out someday that they were full of some toxic agent.

The water there was extremely rusty and stained everything and tasted HORRIBLE! I couldn't own any WHITE clothing because it would end up ORANGE, I kid you not. We had a water softener and you could always tell when the salt ran out because the bath water or dish water was orange. :puke: I wasn't about to drink that crap, softened or not. When you took a shower, you didn't 'feel' clean. The water left a very filmy, dry feeling on the skin. :( We have city water where we live now, but I can't stand the taste of it. It's really gross. I don't trust that there's not some cancer causing agent in that water either. The very thought of drinking tap water grosses me out.

Basically, it comes down to not trusting corporations to not pollute the water and air...I don't trust them. We have water from Hinckley and Schmitt with a water cooler. My son has never drunk tap water. When he has to drink it at other people's houses, he HATES it.

We drink LOTS of water instead of pop.