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My tap water tastes like bleach all of a sudden. Any way to get the taste out? | |
| knoxvillerocks Offer Upgrade  User ID: 1193530  United States01/07/2011 10:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| knoxvillerocks (OP) User ID: 1193530 United States01/07/2011 10:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| knoxvillerocks (OP) User ID: 1193530 United States01/07/2011 10:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Leave some of it sit out for awhile. The chlorine will evaporate out of the water. Also call your water company and they might be able to explain why they may have increased the chlorine content. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1216255will do, sound advice. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1216255 United States01/07/2011 10:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Leave some of it sit out for awhile. The chlorine will evaporate out of the water. Also call your water company and they might be able to explain why they may have increased the chlorine content. Quoting: knoxvillerockswill do, sound advice. The people in their labs are usually glad to talk to their consumers. |
| GirlGenius User ID: 1133676 United States01/07/2011 10:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Atheist User ID: 1219515  United Kingdom01/07/2011 10:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Can I boil it? yes or no? Quoting: knoxvillerocksBoiling doesn't filter contaminants out of the water, it only kills micro organisms, boiling water will evaporate some of it off further concentrating the substances dissolved in the water. You need to filter it by a process such as reverse osmosis, distil it or infact filter it with something like a carbon filter. Atheist |
| FNG User ID: 1220834 United States01/07/2011 10:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Be careful. Closer to the city water in Knoxville is horrible. It comes out of the Tennessee River near downtown. Get on a boat and go up and down past UT stadium and the corrections center and look at that water. It's literally sewage water. Move up toward Blaine and Rutledge, commute, and drink the well water. It's 10000x better for you, but can be full of lime in some places. |
| Vision Thing User ID: 1110850 United States01/07/2011 10:38 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| D's Pet User ID: 1220870 United States01/07/2011 10:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want the cheap and easy route, get a Britta pitcher or other carbon filter system. The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. ~P. J. O'Rourke |
| knoxvillerocks (OP) User ID: 1193530 United States01/07/2011 10:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ok i just called the water company. They are sending someone out. I guess this is not normal. I didn't think it was. Thanks everyone. I had reverse osmosis at my old house and I will put one in here when I get tax refund as well |
| GirlGenius User ID: 1133676 United States01/07/2011 10:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let it sit a while in an open pitcher to off-gas it before you drink it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 875582You can't be serious? I suppose you think the fluoride, chemicals, and heavy metals will disappear as well. You can distill the water but need to add beneficial minerals back into it. For nothing is secret that will not be revealed… |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1123488 United States01/07/2011 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.omnifilter.com] I use a counter-top water filter along with an omnifilter cb-3 for water drinking... will never drink straight from the tap again. [link to www.amazon.com] bought that metal filter. |
| knoxvillerocks (OP) User ID: 1193530 United States01/07/2011 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Be careful. Closer to the city water in Knoxville is horrible. It comes out of the Tennessee River near downtown. Get on a boat and go up and down past UT stadium and the corrections center and look at that water. It's literally sewage water. Quoting: FNGMove up toward Blaine and Rutledge, commute, and drink the well water. It's 10000x better for you, but can be full of lime in some places. I have heard that same story from another person about the water coming out of the TN river. I never did believe it until now though. Yuk sewage water, yeah I drove past it when I went to a game and OH my disgusting. yuck |
| Captain Pancakes User ID: 1179939  Puerto Rico01/07/2011 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Can I boil it? yes or no? Quoting: AtheistBoiling doesn't filter contaminants out of the water, it only kills micro organisms, boiling water will evaporate some of it off further concentrating the substances dissolved in the water. You need to filter it by a process such as reverse osmosis, distil it or infact filter it with something like a carbon filter.  But if at the Church they would give us some ale, And a pleasant fire our souls to regale, We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day, And never once wish from the Church to stray. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1123488 United States01/07/2011 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| J-Rico User ID: 1116423 United States01/07/2011 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ok i just called the water company. They are sending someone out. I guess this is not normal. I didn't think it was. Quoting: knoxvillerocksThanks everyone. I had reverse osmosis at my old house and I will put one in here when I get tax refund as well Keep a cup of it. SHOW the guy what's coming out of your faucet. Chances are by the time they get there, it might clear up. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives. :moranrico::Rico::moranrico: |
| GirlGenius User ID: 1133676 United States01/07/2011 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want the cheap and easy route, get a Britta pitcher or other carbon filter system. Quoting: D's PetI guess it's better than nothing, but it won't get out most of the chemicals and heavy metals. I have been using a Berkey for years. I could even filter and drink my pond water with it if I had to. For nothing is secret that will not be revealed… |
| knoxvillerocks (OP) User ID: 1193530 United States01/07/2011 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | chlorine will evaporate from water by letting it sit. Poster is right.. if you want to get rid of just the chlorine, put it in a container and let it sit a couple of days and it will evaporate. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1123488understood well case closed I guess Thanks to everyone who participated. |
| D's Pet User ID: 1220870 United States01/07/2011 10:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want the cheap and easy route, get a Britta pitcher or other carbon filter system. Quoting: GirlGeniusI guess it's better than nothing, but it won't get out most of the chemicals and heavy metals. I have been using a Berkey for years. I could even filter and drink my pond water with it if I had to. From the OP's posts, I think the Berkey is out of his immediate price range. The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. ~P. J. O'Rourke |
| BRIEF AND TO THE POINT User ID: 381742 United States01/07/2011 10:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Drink distilled...we cook with it too... Poor people do poor people things, and rich people do rich people things. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! when you rob Paul to give to Peter ... ... ... you will always get Peters support! :Brieffromnativea: |
| FNG User ID: 1220834 United States01/07/2011 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have heard that same story from another person about the water coming out of the TN river. I never did believe it until now though. Yuk sewage water, yeah I drove past it when I went to a game and OH my disgusting. Quoting: knoxvillerocksyuck I've been on all the lakes and rivers up there, and let me tell ya; Most of them I would drink water straight out of. I went and put in downtown on the TR early one 4th of July to watch the fireworks later on and thought I would fish all day until then. Not only is there trash on every bank extending a foot into the river along the whole thing, I had to try and not hook dirty diapers. It was so disgusting I didn't stay. I left and went to Cherokee, then watched fireworks from the mountain overlook. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 966567 United States01/07/2011 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1220884  South Africa01/07/2011 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want the cheap and easy route, get a Britta pitcher or other carbon filter system. Quoting: GirlGeniusI guess it's better than nothing, but it won't get out most of the chemicals and heavy metals. I have been using a Berkey for years. I could even filter and drink my pond water with it if I had to. I have been using a Berkey This OP. I have city water and it also has a bad smell and taste. The berkey, with a fluoride filter added, takes away the chlorine and most of the fluoride. If your water is like that, then it stands to reason that any water coming from the water plant will be the same. Therefore if the water people do show up at your home, they will not find anything wrong with your water. Bottom line - Buy a Berkey. |
| Mr. Clean User ID: 1198624 United States01/07/2011 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't adding a small amount of bleach to water supposed to help clean it of dangerous impurities???? Like a toxic leak of something or another into water table??? |
| fleshette User ID: 1092073  Canada01/07/2011 10:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Captain Pancakes User ID: 1179939 Puerto Rico01/07/2011 10:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Drink distilled...we cook with it too... Quoting: BRIEF AND TO THE POINTAnd this is pocketbook friendly. But if at the Church they would give us some ale, And a pleasant fire our souls to regale, We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day, And never once wish from the Church to stray. |
