Are you from one of these cities listed? If so, don't drink your tap water - even boiled.

What is this ‘water’ of which you speak? eyes beer

I lived in Florida for about five years. Horrible water from the tap. It’s sad to have to buy water in a bottle, yet the alternative in FL was sulfur-water. Ick.

We have one of those super duper filters so all drinking and cooking water gets filtered before we use it. Saves buying bottles of water and polluting the world. I also carry a metal bottle with me instead of buying water.

St. Louis has good water? I’m surprised. It doesn’t taste particularly pure. Or maybe outlying suburbs don’t count.

The top ten are not surprising. Not many natural sources for water around there. Is this where I tell Cali to fuck off and stop stealing our water?

Palmer Lake, Colorado has the best drinking water. Period.

From the article: “Experts still agree that drinking tap is preferable to drinking bottled water. Bottled water is much more expensive than tap, it takes a huge toll on the planet, and it’s not necessarily any safer than tap. “Bottled water is not regulated in the same way as tap water,” says Olga Naidenko, a senior scientist at EWG. “With bottled water, consumers often do not know what they are getting, and 25 to 40 percent of bottled water on the market is simply tap poured into a bottle.”

To add, I grew up in Las Vegas, NV, and I drank the tap water. Don’t seem to have any long-term damage from drinking it.

This makes me so happy to have spring water!

I’m from the poland spring area ( in good ol’ maine) – we have great water :)

I saw that article today. I’m really surprised that Washington DC didn’t make the worst list, because we have the nastiest tap water ever. It tastes brackish, metallic, and chlorine-y all at the same time. Blech.

Red Deer, Alberta has great tap water, thank god! Haven’t I heard that Calfornia would like some Alberta water?

I have always insisted on filtered water when living and visiting in Southern California. I lived in Santa Barbara and in San Diego, and neither city has drinkable tap water.

Ohhhh yes! Minneapolis has great water!

I’m surprised that New York isn’t on the “good” list. The one time I visited the US, I stayed with a friend in Brooklyn, and I asked if the tapwater was ok to drink. She gave me a funny look and said “of course it is”. And she was right, it was easily as good as the water I get at home (Manchester, UK) which has great tapwater too.