Facts About Drinking Water

What's in Your Tap Water?

August 24, 2010

The age-old question: how safe is tap water? With reports that range from praising the purity of your tap to warning about the possibilities of pharmaceutical-tainted water, do you know the basics of US drinking water? Take this quiz to find out!

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5 Comments

pixiedusk 2 years 38 weeks

our tap water has sand in it hehe.. oh and its yellowish too!

danakscully64 2 years 38 weeks

I live right near Pensacola, I don't think we have same water. The 2nd worst water quality is Riverside, CA, where I was born and raised :P Riverside (the city, not county) is split up in terms of water. The people downtown get different water than the ones on the other side near Moreno Valley. Honestly, I don't think in terms of taste that So Cal water is that bad. As a kid, we would see particles floating in it (looked like toilet paper, heck, it could have been). I have always used a Brita filter everywhere I've been. The worst water I've ever tasted? Corpus Christi, TX. Even Brita couldn't get rid of that.

tarabara1229 2 years 38 weeks

I grew up in Hawaii, so I was always drinking tap water. Wish I could do the same in SoCal.

le romantique 2 years 38 weeks

Did not know Texas had great water... I did know about poor Florida though. Because I live there, but not that exact area at all. I'm from NJ where the tap water was drinkable when I was a child and Florida is just nasty to smell.