I’d love to be on quality treated city water instead of my crappy well which is a hard water nightmare.
We’re lucky to have soft water. Probably the only people in the entire state of MA to have soft water. Our issue is silt, which is easily solved.
The grandparents water stinks like rotten eggs but tastes great and it seems to be some component of how that side of the family lives past 100 consistently. They’re on the border of W.VA. up in Rockingham Co. Up the mountain at the cabin it’s been spring water forever, and that water is so good I used to bring it home to northern VA to drink and make coffee because our well water there tasted like sucking rusty nails.
Virginia was struck by a meteor near the eastern shore. This disturbed the sediments through a broad area of The Old Dominion aquifers. That’s why well water is so full of minerals.
The mouths of the James and York rivers were turned to the north as the water which had be blown out of the impact crater flowed rapidly back in. One of the reasons the best naval harbor in the world is in Norfolk.
Lots of interesting geology if you search “Chesapeake meteor crater”.
https://meteor.pwnet.org/impact_event/impact_crater.htm