Poll: Water

[tcsmpsi]

If it gets bad enough, I'll go to the creek.   ;D

If you go to the creek, say hello to the little yaupon family for me .

I always do.   ;)

[Raider Bill]

Water makes rust. I don't need rust so I try to drink the barley flavored water, it's been filtered.

[Quartlow]

whatever comes out of the well is what I drink. Once in a while in the summer it gets a very very light sulpher smell to it.
Most of the time its just fine.

[pigman]

I drink what ever water I can find and keep my teeth together to strain out the larger creatures. ;D

Bob

[JimMoore]

My tap water is spring water 8)

[sawdust]

Our water comes from a hundred feet under the town. Very soft tastes excellent fresh but let it sit ten minutes and it tastes dusty. Makes lousy coffee, I bring water from the river for that. River water is real hard.
sawdust

[WDH]

I drink what ever water I can find and keep my teeth together to strain out the larger creatures. ;D
Bob

That sure creates an interesting visual image :-\.

[Jeff]

We bought bottled water for the forum members at Sawlex. We had a case left when we came home.  I took it to the cabin and every time I empty one., I refill it out of the tap and put it back in the fridge. I also have 3 2liter diet coke bottles I keep frozen half full in the freezer. I get one out, fill it on up with water so I have something cold to drink when I am in the woods.  I keep the smaller bottles to drink around the cabin.  I love the water here at home and at the cabin, especially when its cold.

[low_48]

My daughter worked for a water treatment company and got us an undersink reverse osmosis. I always liked the city tap water until I changed the prefilter for the first time That thing was as red as Georgia clay and would come off on my hands just like that. Don't drink much tap water these days. That's a long ways from a can on a post by the farm hydrant.

I would have alot of concerns about farm drinking water these days. My 47 year old brother is on that farm I grew up on, and he is just getting started battling stage IV colon cancer. They switched to bottled drinking water in the past, don't know how many years. With no history of cancer in our family it sure seems like it must be environmental.

[sharp edge]

My drinking water starts from a 50'- 2" pvc well through a carbon filter then to the tap. We use bottled water too. Refill and freeze them for drinking in the woods also.

Back in the "good old days" they had bottled spring water too. After drinking one, 20 min. later you had to run for the bath room.  : You can goolge Pluto Spring Water-- French Lick, Indiana for more info. I'm not to good with this kind of machine. :
SE

[flip]

We pulled a water line off the city main one time to clean the pipe out that leads to the house.  After I saw what the city "flushes" their line with smiley_eek_dropjaw  I try to avoid it at all possible.  Looked something like sand that dissolves when you rub it between your fingers.  Guess that's why the aereators are on the end of the faucets for, to dissolve that junk before you see it.  The city and plumbers both said it was normal and ok to consume.  I put some in a cup and asked if either wanted a sip, I got no takers...

[SwampDonkey]

My favorite is straight outta the garden hose when it's 95 degrees outside and I'm soaked with sweat .

It's been raining (heavy showers) every day in the woods, so I can't tell if I've sweat or if it's just the rain. I take my water jugs with me though, when I'm wacking away at the bushes.  ;) ;D

[Modat22]

I have a 320 foot deep well, its slightly sulphury but has enough calcium (oops, not calcium. Limestone?) and iron to make up for not taking mineral suppliments. I figure its better for me than the unknown stuff in plastic bottles and its alot cheaper to boot. Never did understand paying 1.00 or more for a plastic bottle of water.

[SwampDonkey]

I drink what ever water I can find and keep my teeth together to strain out the larger creatures. ;D
Bob

That sure creates an interesting visual image :-\.

Try picking up your hard hat in the morning after leaving it sitting on top of your saw in the bush after a rainy night. There must have been about 50 of them slimy slugs inside mine this morning.  ;D :D

[beenthere]

"Out of the Tap" could be well water, or city water. To me, a big difference. So, should I vote "other" ??

Our WI water is very good, a 320' well.

[DanG]

Well, this is a deep subject, and one that is near and dear to my heart right now.  We've been having water troubles lately, namely not much of it.  The well has been getting wimpier and wimpier for several months, and had gotten to where it was difficult to take a good shower.  We had good pressure, but it would quickly go away, leaving us with just a trickle.  I've had my bid in for the well guy's attention for a couple of weeks, and he finally came out yesterday.  He took the well pipe loose from the pump and turned it on, and only got a stream about like a healthy baby could pee.  He captured some water and found algae in it, and concluded that the pump was clogged with algae.  He told me exactly what to do, and left.  I went to town and got 5 gallons of Clorox, and poured 3 gallons down the well.  I rigged an old piece of garden hose onto the well pipe, put the other end down the well, and turned on the pump.  I ran it like that from 4:30pm until 1am, and the only difference was that the water turned a very dark brown, about like some really nice Walnut.  I turned it back on this morning, and it was still the same color and the same volume.  I put the hose into a 5 gallon bucket and it took 9½ minutes to fill it up.  I called him back and he advised that I gently pour some sand down the well to provide some abrasive action.  I got a coffee can full of masonry sand and poured it down in little bits, over a few hour's time, and noticed a larger volume of murky water.  I took the hose out and let it pump until the bleach smell was gone, and by that time I could fill a 5 gal. bucket in about 4 minutes.  Long story not quite so long, by 4:30pm today, I could fill the bucket in exactly 2 minutes and the water was clear enough to see the bottom of the bucket.  I hooked it back up and we now have water again. 8) 8)  We'll be drinking bottled water for a little while, but we can bottle our own at my step-daughter's house.  The well guy told me true, and he got to see me cut up a little ol' pine log, too.  I got out of this mess for less than a hundred bucks, including the Clorox, and learned a whole lot about water wells in the process! 8) 8) 8)

BTW, he says I should be getting about 10gpm instead of 2½gpm, but it might get better as time goes on.  He recommends repeating the treatment in a week or two.

[Ron Wenrich]

beenthere

It doesn't matter if its city or well water, if you drink out of the tap, that's what you do. ;)

I have city water and don't find any problem with it.  Others find it offensive and either filter it or buy bottled water.  Same goes for tap. 

We have guys at the mill that don't drink water at all.  They favor ice teas and Cokes.  I'll settle for water.

[SwampDonkey]

I prefer water to anything when working. The sugar stuff just makes me all that more thirsty. Anything tea, coffee or cola just dehydrates.

[thecfarm]

I grew up with city water,cloride and all that good stuff.When I moved out ,I still had it.Probaly had it for 35 years.Than I moved here and we have well water.Not all that much differance to me in taste.I do drink alot of water.I always have a jug close to me when it is warm out full of ice and water.My wife is real picky with her water.When we go out to eat she refuses to drink some of the water.

[Modat22]

Sorry guys posted in the wrong thread 

[wmrussel]

I prefer water to anything when working. The sugar stuff just makes me all that more thirsty. Anything tea, coffee or cola just dehydrates.

It took me 36 years to figure that out.  You are SO right!

[Furby]

I can't drink very much plain water with out getting pretty sick.
Don't matter if it's bottled, well, or city water.
When working in the heat, I can handle more water before it bothers me, but it will still bother me.
Sweetened water don't bother me and don't make me any more thirsty then I was.

I have poor well water and don't drink it plain from the tap. A little sugar and flavoring and I drink it by the gallon.
I keep bottled water on hand in case I just want some plain water.

[Max sawdust]

Try picking up your hard hat in the morning after leaving it sitting on top of your saw in the bush after a rainy night. There must have been about 50 of them slimy slugs inside mine this morning.  ;D :D

SD Now try putting on the earmuffs without looking at what is inside first  :


Water: I drink out of the tap.  Very good well water.  I have moved enough over the years, and had houses with good water and bad water.  Good water is priceless ;)
max

[Zundapp]

I can't drink very much plain water with out getting pretty sick.
Don't matter if it's bottled, well, or city water.
When working in the heat, I can handle more water before it bothers me, but it will still bother me.
Sweetened water don't bother me and don't make me any more thirsty then I was.

I have poor well water and don't drink it plain from the tap. A little sugar and flavoring and I drink it by the gallon.
I keep bottled water on hand in case I just want some plain water.

A few years ago I was helping my neighbor put up his hay. It was 100+ in the shade. We stopped to take a break, I got out my water jug & offered him some. He said, no thanks, I never touch the stuff, told me he got sick on it once and hadn't drank a drop in over 40 years. Amazed, I asked, what do you drink? he said all he ever drank was beer & coffee. He was in his 70's.

We have a 600' well that only yeilds 3 gallions a minute but the water tastes great. Last year we put in a 2000 galion concrete resevior. Made the water cloudy so we're using a Britta filter till it clears up.

[SwampDonkey]

SD Now try putting on the earmuffs without looking at what is inside first  :

I use plugs in the summer months.  Earmuffs are too hot in the heat. ;D