[Viking2002]

I'm out of town and on a lousy connection. Question: is the home tap water filtration issue addressed vis-a-vis it's effectiveness in the removal of arsenic from the municipal water supply? I know our tap water tastes like an alligator took a whiz in it (which isn't too far from the truth), so I can only imagine what else is in it, even after being processed by the local plant. We currently use two pitchers (one Brita, one Pur), for most kitchen uses. I'd like to know if that's doing anything else but making the water taste better.

[TigersEye]

Alligator whiz is the only known substance to precipitate arsenic out of water.
You need to put some in your filters.

[Doe Eyes]

Question: is the home tap water filtration issue addressed vis-a-vis it's effectiveness in the removal of arsenic from the municipal water supply?

Reverse Osmosis will remove arsenic.

[neverdem]

Question: is the home tap water filtration issue addressed vis-a-vis it's effectiveness in the removal of arsenic from the municipal water supply? I know our tap water tastes like an alligator took a whiz in it (which isn't too far from the truth), so I can only imagine what else is in it, even after being processed by the local plant. We currently use two pitchers (one Brita, one Pur), for most kitchen uses. I'd like to know if that's doing anything else but making the water taste better.

Go to the original article. At the bottom, the last section is called "Sidebar: Ways to reduce your family’s risk." There's an EPA link about testing water and a "federal Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800-426-4791."

[goat granny]

My last two homes had their own well. You get use to the odor but I found if I put the water in a pitcher or empty gallon and left the lid off the smell disappears quite a bit within 24 hours. Refrigerate it and it taste good cold. Running a tub of water requires some perfume added but when I go visit and taste city water it smells like our old swimming poor did...Chlorine taste and smell is as bad as well water it depends on what your use to...City water is the water someone last week took a bath in, clorinated and sent out as drinking water....

6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other. Water softeners help eleminate some minerals like iron, the farm had such hard water that the bathroom in the utility room that didn't get used much would actually develop and a thin iron crust on top until flushed....nothing is pure by todays standards...Many people traveling west were just glad to have any kind of water...