"Siobhan Perricone" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:38:03 -0700, "D.Currie"
> > wrote:
>
>>> Without even reading the article, I can say the answer is
>>> It depends. I'd forgotten just how horrid the water is in
>>> the places I've visited in Florida. I understand completely
>>>
>>I've lived in places where the water was terrible, and places where it was
>>fine.
>
> It's important to differentiate between water that doesn't taste very
> good,
> and water that is actually *bad*, meaning you shouldn't be drinking it.
> It's not unusual for the water to be fine from a health standpoint, but to
> have an unpleasant taste. That's how it is in Montpelier (Vermont). I'm
> not very fond of the water in Waterbury either, but my well water here at
> home is just fine to me.
>

In my case, I meant terrible in the sense that anyone who tasted it thought
it had a foul taste. I could tolerate it if I had to take a pill or
something, but I never got used to just drinking a glass of it -- it just
had a really off flavor. I've been to plenty of places where the water has
some sort of different flavor, but this was the only place where I thought
it was so bad that it was undrinkable. And it wasn't just me, everyone I
knew thought it tasted bad. This wasn't just a matter of not being yummy, it
was a matter of the water tasting seriously bad.

As far as how healthy it was, I have no idea. It probably was fine. But if
you can't stand the taste to a point where you're not drinking enough,
that's not particularly healthy.

If I had a lot of money at the time, I probably would have had bottled water
delivered or something. But I was broke, so I carried around gallon bottles
and filled them from taps at places where the water was better. Worked fine
for me.