SFist: Photo du Jour 211

Brock Keeling

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:43:43 -0800

oh.

mpantone

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:41:25 -0800

Is tap water really better? Are you insane? SF tap water is Hetch Hetchy, one of the finest municipal water supplies on the planet. Apart from the chloramine addition (which can be removed with an inline faucet filter), SF tap water is insanely good. Basically anyone who routinely buys bottled water in SF and San Mateo counties is retarded.

Brock Keeling

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:32:37 -0800

i second the lower half's water. so cal tap water tastes golden shower in a glass.

Sivart13

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:42:16 -0800

My only other experiences are San Diego and Davis, but compared to either of those SF water is glorious. I probably couldn't tell the difference in a taste test against bottled water. It'd be good if there was an easy way to test your residence to see if you're getting some lead with your pipes or whatever, though.

Greg

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:05:06 -0800

SF water is generally good, although if you're in an older building with crappy pipes, it might not taste as good as it could. Anything beats water you get on the coast (Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, etc) for some reason all those places have water that tastes like hell.

OrangeDrink

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:22:34 -0800

Brita filter on the tap works wonders.

Generic

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:21:22 -0800

Yes. A smug enviro-hippie coworker bet me $20 that I couldn't tell the diff between my Fuji and the tap. The results were embarrassing.

brittney

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:20:14 -0800

San Francisco tap water is delicious compared to fly over country tap water.

doublegin

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:43:10 -0800

In the city, yes. But I've also lived in Concord where the tap water comes, I'm guessing, from the Delta (ugh). But shipping in water is still unnecessary, I think. A Brita filter works just as well, right?

troymccluresf

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:24:20 -0800

Here, yes, but whilst visiting my friends at UC Riverside, I didn't even want cocktails with ice. Another reason I love SF.

wsanders

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:53:19 -0800

Here in SaBu we are in an old building that has some kind of skank in its pipes and the wonderful healthy pristine Hetch Hetchy water takes like crud. At least I was able to convince Management to stop buying cases and cases of Arrowhead and switch to the big 5-gallon jugs in traditional coolers. We had some workers who were taking a case of little plastic bottles back to their desk each week. I grew up in Texas and I'm not dead yet - but if I lived there I'd check my water privately. Most towns get it from the local river, and it's generally been trough a few sewage treatment plants, and clorinated over and over again, before it reaches the tap. Even in Austin, which used to have a pristine water supply from aquifers out west of town; now there's 600,000 people living on septic tanks and tiny, privately owned treatment plants maintained by god-knows-who.

Shibi

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:39:21 -0800

Generally, yes. Although I have had some very skunky tap water (that was in Texas, where most things are skunky... go figure).

bluecanary

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:33:56 -0800

Yes.