The tap water appreciation topic

[mrbigjas]

Philadelphia, PA: 1 (Really)

We're number one! We're number o--d'oh!

The water here is awful, and seems to be getting worse as time goes on.  I can actually smell the water when I turn on my shower. 

This spring our water was especially bad; it even prompted me to start filtering it, and I been drinkin the stuff my whole life.

But it wasn't as bad as the water in central texas (austin/hill country), which always tastes like dirt and a sort of mushroomy fungusy taste, or as someone else here said, along the gulf coast, which tastes like petroleum.

Or the water in some parts of upstate PA, like the well at my aunt's house, which has so much sulfur that it's actually undrinkable, and when you shower, you feel like you're not actually rinsing the soap off of you because the water is so basic that it actually feels slippery, and fizzes when you pee in it.

Edited July 24, 2003 by mrbigjas (log)

[tommy]

and fizzes when you pee in it.

[fresco]

Always wondered how Perrier became effervescent.