On 9/19/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A number of magazines have conducted taste tests pitting New York > City water against all the top bottled brands. The tap water almost > always wins. Ditto for great lakes water in Chicago, Detroit and > other midwest cities. I haven't had tap water in Anaheim, California, > but I've drank plenty of it in LA hotels. Seemed fine to me. > Paul
They did the same tests on Toronto water (which, being Lake Ontario water, is the same stuff that Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo drink, only by the time it gets to us, there are that many more "additives" in it. We have a huge intake pipe some 5 miles offshore, deep at the bottom of the lake, where apparently the water is quite cold and clean. Of course it's treated, but it tastes good. And, in blind taste tests, it's preferred to bottled brands. Still, I've been using a Brita water filter for some time now, and it seems to improve the taste of the water (or is it because I ~want~ it to taste better?). <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
