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Originally Posted by krwlz
You're probably right, as that spring is flowing through bedrock before it comes up through the spring. Personally, depending on the minerals, I think most of it tastes better. Distilled water sucks. Boiled water sucks. The water from my well, tastes great. Although after watching Penn and Teller, maybe it's my imagination.
The only time I buy bottled water is on car trips, because I like having water to drink, and it's convenient.
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I don't think it's your imagination.
I'd suspect well water would taste very good, as does my Grandparents' well water in Oregon and, before that, their well water in Sacramento.
Of course, their water is hard, leaves deposits all over anything it touches, and is filled with impurities...the same reason it tastes so good. And makes me skeptical that any filter salesperson would claim any unfiltered water source is "99% pure."
When I filter my water for my reef tanks, I actually *need* it to be 99% pure. It tastes like shit, and in some cases isn't even healthy. I have to run pure water back through a carbon filter to try and add some taste back to it. Pure water destroys things rapidly, too.
Anyway, there is an indirect relationship between "taste good" and water "purity." The dirtier it is, the more it will taste. And often that taste is something good. Old/dangerous piping *will* affect both the taste and quality of your tap water, so home filters may make sense for some. If chloramines bother you, buy something to dechlorinate it and then leave a jug sit for 24 hours to evap the chlorine that breaks out from the chloramines.
Anyway, we have to buy bottled water in a lot of places because they [businesses] either won't give it out or won't let people carry around their own. But other than that, I don't and I rarely filter my drinking water at home even with my RO/DI unit.