[Tweety Bird]

I have excellent water here in Minnesota. Open the faucet and out come the goods. However this may be different in TV? I won't have a side by side for drinking water. What kind of water system do most people seem to choose in TV? Ie: for coffee, soup, drinking, washing vegies?

[k2at]

If u live in TV, everyone uses the same drinking water which is Municipal water system. Each home has the option of then adding to that an in-house water purification system if they so desire.

[jblum8156]

The water that comes out of the tap is undrinkable, IMHO. The first thing I did after moving into my new house was to get a whole house water purification system installed.

[BUC]

Does the water taste bad? My youngest daughter goes to Valdosta State in Valdosta,Ga. When we go down to send a weekend or just visit, The water is terible even the ice taste bad. I guess it'll be bottled water in the T.V. Can you taste the bad water in he ice at restauts?

[Army Guy]

Being military I have lived all over the world and with that have drank the water straight form the tap, in most places. The water in TV tastes fine to me, no problems, and me and the wife drink a lot of it.
We did have a filter system put on our sink with a faucet in our villa, just because we do worry about the things you CAN'T taste that may be in there!
The city we are moving from into TV, bottles their water and sells it under various names, and I see no difference between the two!

Army Guy

[villages07]

I think the tap water tastes fine, although we mostly get our drinking water from the side by side fridge, which includes a filter.

The one downside to tap water is that the cold water is usually lukewarm so it's not very refreshing right out of the tap without some ice.

[otherbruddaDarrell]

The only thing I have noticed is a taste of chlorine from the tap. The filter on my fridge removes that taste/smell.
We had a regular (no dispense) fridge because of the size limitations in our kithen and the door going to the garage.
Sears had a smaller sized double door fridge with filtered water/ice disp. that we had them install in place of the regular fridge.
The door going to the garage was right next to the fridge and swung in and would hit the fridge everytime, so we had a carpenter remove the frame and door and change it so it now opens in to the garage and does not hit the fridge.

[Tweety Bird]

Originally Posted by jblum8156

The water that comes out of the tap is undrinkable, IMHO. The first thing I did after moving into my new house was to get a whole house water purification system installed.

I just checked a lot of your answers and I thank you. But I have another question. Wouldn't a purification system like PUR be ok on the kitchen sink rather giving the entire house a purification system? I'm trying to rationalize this. Why have shower water purified along with laundry water? Wouldn't an entire purification system for the entire house cost so much more than one sink outlet?

[EdV]

Check out PUR's slender space saving refrigerator dispenser. Now not only is your drinking water filtered, but it's nice and cold too.

http://www.purwater.com/#/dispenser

[Tweety Bird]

Thank you VERY much. I really appreciate the info

[otherbruddaDarrell]

On my condo up north I have a reverse osmosis filter system under the sink that works very well for my renters.
Clean filtered water on a seperate faucet for drinking & coffee.
I had mine installed, but Lowes and home depot have similiar under the sink sets also.

[Muncle]

Warning --- the marketing of water purification systems is one of the most shyster-ridden industries in the state of Florida. These sales people make the Congress look ethical by comparison. If you decide to go with a water system of any kind, check both the national product and the local agent out with the BBB, Seniors Against Crime, and the FL AG.






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[Ohiogirl]

I also think the water in TV tastes just fine and is not particularly hard. I've also lived a lot of places. Realize that whatever you are used to is what tastes normal to you. Taste is very personal.

We use a Britta pitcher with charcoal filters that we keep in the fridge up north, but only "just in case" - right now we drink the Villages water from the tap. I personally can't tell the difference between Columbus, OH water and The Villages water. Will move the Britta pitcher down with us when we retire.

I have lived places where I thought the water did taste awful - usually well water. Got used to it after many months and then city water (chlorinated) would start to taste bad when I visited friends/family and smelled awful. Moved back to a city and vice versa.

I must say that the water at one of my daughter's apartments (Orlando close to Winter Park) had undrinkable (IMHO) water - tasted extremely salty to me. They disliked it also. Now she lives in Kissimmee and it tastes fine.

[jblum8156]

To Tweety Bird: I wanted all the water treated because I have very dry skin and hard water makes it worse. The softened water does wonders for my skin, and also helps with the laundry.

[bluedog103]

Where I live in New York State we sometimes get sediment in our water from municipal wells. I installed a whole house filtration system which removes the sediment as well as that annoying chlorine taste. I got mine from a plumbing supply dealer but they are
available from Home Depot for less than $50.00 and are easy to install. If you can sweat a joint, you can install the filter housing very quickly. There is a bypass position so if you are using water you don't need filtered, such as washing a car, you can easily bypass the filter. Filters last a few months and are very inexpensive.