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Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I find it funny how people turn their nose up at tap water. One consequece of this behavior? Tooth decay is on the rise in young people who have parents that raise them on bottled water. It seems that bottled water doesn't have the fluoride that is usually found in municipal water supplies. So, enjoy your bottled water and increased number of cavities.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 LA tap water and Anaheim tap water come from different sources, don't they? I have no trouble drinking tap water here in NY, or most places. But Anaheim's, I thought, was pretty bad.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros While I would hardly say that it's the best tasting tap water in the country, I certainly don't have any problems with LA water. I know a bunch of people who think it is disgusting and refuse to drink it (my roommates included), but it really doesn't taste that bad. The flouride levels were increased a few months ago, bringing it up to about the national average, but it could still go higher. I talked to someone who was raised in the Valley, and she said that she wouldn't drink the tap water because she "could taste the flouride". At just a couple molecules of flouride per billion molecules of water, I would say that's either a pretty perceptive tongue she has, or a pretty big pile of bull (and I'm sure it's the latter). I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't mind LA water! (But it does seem like the water fountains in DL, especially the one in the BTMRR queue, have a way worse taste than everywhere else)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 In the SG Valley where I grew up, it was pretty bad, too. It was essentially gray, in fact. It might have improved; that was a long time ago.
Originally Posted By mater4 I prefer filtered water over tap. I guess everyones tastebuds are different. I think cavities are more of a result of kids not brushing and flossing regularly. My childrens dentist said that most kids need assistance from parents until their 7. My DD had flouride drops because the water where we lived at the time had no flouride in it and she still managed to get a cavity.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I drink my tap water all the time. My brother lived for a little while in a tiny apartment in Westwood right next to UCLA, (he's a student there). His tap water was distictly brown, and if you let it sit sediment settled to the bottom. My guess would be that it would be rust from the pipes, as it most likely left the water proccessing plant clean. Anyway, he didn't drink his tap water and I wouldn't have either. (They did cook with it though.)
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << I think cavities are more of a result of kids not brushing and flossing regularly. >> Cavities are usually a large product of genetics. However, fluorinated water makes a huge difference in populations and can influence dental health in ways that can't be assessed as easily as brushing and flossing. I grew up in a largely rural part of the country. It's amazing the dental health difference in areas that had city water introduced. The before and after results are very convincing that fluorinated water is a huge factor in keeping teeth healthy.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Sorry, couldn't resist: General Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? -- fluoridation of water? . . . Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? . . . Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women...women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.
Originally Posted By liveforvacations I live in Vancouver, British Columbia and I always drink the water from the tap at home because I think it tastes just fine! I believe we have pretty good water! I know some people say that they can taste the chlorine and maybe that is why I like it. I think tap water has more "zip" than bottled water! Unfortunately, when I travel I don't usually drink the water because I just think it tastes funny and I must say that I think Anaheim water tastes funny. However, I do think it tastes better than Las Vegas water!. I am sure there is nothing wrong with it, I am just not used to how it tastes.
Originally Posted By friendofdd >>>LA tap water and Anaheim tap water come from different sources, don't they?<<< I don't know the answer to this other than NorCal thinks SoCal steals all their water. So I assume the original source is the same, but there could be different processing between the counties.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Do you realize that fluoridation is the mostmonstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" I agree. We should just go back to the old days where you had to get your own water, either from a river or a well. Ah, for the good old days, when people were dieing like it was going out of fashion...and people say technology helps move us forward. Psh!
Originally Posted By Ursula I don't drink tap water at DL because that would mean drinking out of a fountain/bubbler (I don't know where you live, person reading this). Any ideas how many times a day a kid wraps their lips over the foundtain? Ay yi yi! I do drink the tap water at home where the only person I have to worry about it DH and he doesn't usually wrap his lips around the tap. (when I'm looking at least!)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I usually let it run for a second or two, and figure it's good enough. Unless it was the person just before me (who I can usually see), most of the germs have already been washed away. I know there's probably still a few left, but I still haven't gotten sick from a water fountain.
Originally Posted By patrickegan Wasn’t it an international communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids… Anyway during the seventies the water coming out of the drinking fountains at DL had some nasty stuff in it. I read a report somewhere about the water being independently tested and I believe things were cleaned up.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster Anaheim tap water is vile, really poor tasting. But it still tastes better then the tap water at WDW. L.A. water (not the mixed drink by that name) is ok. Not terrible, but I still prefer bottled water. The best tap water I've ever had was in Roseville, in Northern California. I prefer it over every brand of bottled water except for Aqua Panna from Italy.
Originally Posted By SFH For what it is worth, I used to work with waterworks folks. In California, tap water has to meet strict guidelines for safety and there are annual reports on what is in the water. In SoCal, most tap water is a blend of water from northern California or the Colorado River, and local groundwater. As long as the pipes where you are drinking it are okay, it is very safe to drink. TASTE, on the other hand, is another story. That's subjective. But if you think you are getting "safer" water in a bottle, in most cases, you most certainly are not. It may taste better, though. SFH
Originally Posted By jonvn water out of the fountains at DL tastes terrible. The pipes in the park have got to be so rusted out at this time, that's all you taste. Or it tastes like DIRT, which to me just is the flavor of mold. If the water is chilled, you don't taste it as bad.
Originally Posted By MrDisneyGeek Seattle, WA here (just outside in the burbs anyway) I drink the tap water at home no problem (my wife will not though) but the water in Anaheim is just plain nasty by comparison, it smells like sewage and tastes horrid despite I am sure all that Disneyland does to it I cannot drink the water fountain water there unless I am quite desperate. Its bottled water all the way for me in DL where as in WDW we would buy one bottle each at the beginning of the day and refill in the fountains as needed alas we cannot do so in DL.
Originally Posted By mele I'm in Kirkland and I'll drink the water, but it has to be really cold. Every once and awhile it has a weird smell (different than the chlorine smell).
