Well Water vs City Water - POLL

I live where city water doesn't run. We have a deep well but we have lines ready incase we ever do get city water.

I've had city water before when I lived in an appt in college. I didn't like paying for it .

There is talk in our state about some cities getting city water that never had it before. It got me thinking. I would prefer to have a well. What do you think?

 

Do you know how bad for you the shit they add to city water is? Plus you have a water bill...

I love livin in the woods, well water is soo much better!

Really tho...do a google search on the dangers of fluoride...scary shit.

 

Water should be free!

 

The best water I ever had was from my well when I live in the mountains outside of Yosemite.

 

If you live in a big city you often need to use the city water (or buy bottles). So when this is the case I am happy to pay for the services that make it possible to have hot and cold water right from the tap. It's great!
Anyway, tap water largely varies in quality from city to city. When we dutch people go over the border to France for example we are even advised not to drink the tap water. It gives every person that is mainly used to our city water the shits. So I can understand if you live in a city where the water quality sucks but it's very good here!

 

^ well water also varies greatly from well to well.

If I lived I the country again, I like using a cistern better than a well. Along with a filtration system that redirects rain water into the cistern. You have to haul your own water but you don't have to do it very often.

 

I prefer my city water. Well water is smelly and hard, I had chronic winter itch from showering in it when I lived at my parents' house. When they add softener, it's slimy. I don't drink it because it's so gross.

Paying for water isn't so bad, the cost is really for the disposal of the water and waste after you use it.

Also, if you have a power outage (common in the country) you have no water. So you are still paying for it if you have an electric pump, plus maintenance for the pump, softeners and filters if you use them.

 

we have well water and a cistern i think its pretty damn good u cant beat rain water (whats in the cistern) plus if u have a generator u will have water in power outage city water has cholrine and shit like that yeah well water is hard nshit like that but ifin ur drinking it or cooking with it filter it first as for shitting ad bathing its fine havent had issues with that yea it is harder on the hot water heater with all the damn build up of minerals and such but in the long run i think well is better as lomg as u have a filter even a water pitcher filter.

 

Good points!

 

I have well water. It's pretty good, I don't really worry about drinking it whereas I prefer to filter my water with city water.

Not having a water bill is awesome too

Not all well water is created equally though. My mom's well tested positive for e Coli so she has to buy drinking water or boil her drinking water.

 

how do you like your methane with your water?..

I get city Pittsburgh water.. It taste way better than Iron City Beer.. In fact, you can drink out the river and it will taste better than Iron City..

 

I had a guy come in with his testing equipment and check my water when I lived south of Fresno in Lemoore. Reason I had it checked was because of the millions of pounds of poison applied to the farmland every year. He checked it and said that the water was excellant and that he had sold people 10,000 (?) dollar systems to get water as good as it was. I thanked him-paid him nothing and he left,somewhat disappointed. So I guess the city of Lemoore was/is doing a good job. I suggest people have their water checked to see what's going on.

 

Water filtration systems people buy to drink city water still don't filter out sodium fluoride...

I live in a house with a well the water is great. And we don't even use a filter.
The only thing better about city water is the pressure.

 

My water comes from a pipe i ran about 30 feet into a mountain spring... it will freeze your teeth in the summer months

 

Wells aren't trouble-free. In the summer, ours only produces 1-2 gallons per hour, and it gets smelly. We filter it. Still, I'd rather drink it than city water with the chlorine and fluoride.

 

The Boston area has excellent drinking water, better than most bottled water. I don't know anyone who has a well.

 

Rainwater for me!

 

Well as probably the only person here who has a degree in both water and waste-water I can tell you that city water is strictly regulated and tested yearly for page after page of contaminants by the regulatory commisions. The Maximum Contamination level is 4 parts per million for flouride, municipalities add it at 1 ppm or less. As far as chlorine, it is added to a dose of 1 ppm. This kills all the coliform bacteria in the water. Now lets talk bottled water. Many bottlers of "Pure Bottled Water" buy the water from municipalities, some places pull it from a well. There is no regulations on it so whatever your drinking is basically a crapshoot on what your actually getting. Onto well water. It comes from the ground, it must be good and pure right. What do you think is in it? Have you had it checked? Did that farmer next door bury 55 gallon drums of DDT back in the 70's when it was banned in steel drums which are now rusting away and letting it seep into the aquafir you share with him. Is there Tetra-Chloro-Ethane in it from that dry cleaners down the road? I'll take my chances with the municipal water that I produce. I know whats in that.

 

my parents had a well (a spring actually. not sure what the difference is, it looked and worked like a well, but they claimed it was not the same). it was about 10 feet from a cow pasture, so i wouldn't be surprised is some cow poop managed its way in there, and i used to have to go pull dead squirrels out about once a week. plus, we had to deal with the pump, and the water softener, and occasionally during droughts we wouldn't have water. supposedly it wasn't safe to drink, but i did it anyway and i turned out fine. and not paying for water is pretty cool.

that said, they ran rural water lines out there a few years ago, and i've heard no complaints from my parents. i've lived in several apartments since i moved out, and i've always thought the city water tasted just as good as the spring water did. and i've never lived in an apartment where i had to pay the water bill anyway.

 

I had to chuckle about this, not that it isn't true, and I'm not laughing at RH. The city I live in got tired of paying the penalties for not passing this testing procedure plus doing the cleanup afterwards. They found out that the fine for not testing at all was less than all the penalties for failing so they just quit testing... They explain this in a nicely printed brochure that they include with the bill at the beginning of the year. :rofl:


I will say this, The 250 foot deep well I had when I lived on that mountain just outside of Yosemite was the best tasting and healthiest water I have ever had, bar none. Other than pumping it out of the ground to fill my 1000 gal tank and then jet pumping it to the cabin there were no treatments done to the water itself... I hate city water.