I know i still do water changes i just do them a little less often then most people About 20% every 2 weeks. I do have a water purifier, i just dont trust it because im really paranoid. I used decloranated bottled water that u get at the pet store for most of my water changes and keep an emergency backup of water for well emergencies.
water sources on the SCHUYLKILL and delaware rivers are some of the best in the country BECAUSE of the known pollution. we have some of the best and latest upgrades to our water facilities because we've been forced to upgrade them lately since our filtration was so out of date and our pollution was so high. not only that but the new standards that were passed a couple years ago have forced upgrades to many water plants on those 2 rivers. i highly doubt (unless you've taken a lot of time out of your life studying and choosing brands accordingly) you're getting cleaner water out of a bottle than from your tap. if you are worried about safe drinking water the only way to know for sure what you have is to filter it yourself.
bottled water is A LOT more expensive in the long run than filtering it yourself too.
do your homework and order an annual water report from your local facility. it should help you a lot.
i am so jealous... i live just north of there and my report simply stated sucked. it was one almost blank piece of paper with all the "statistics" and one piece of paper crowded with info that basically explained the purpose for the almost blank page. it was ridiculous.
dundadundun,
The Schuylkill is practically a dead river. When my daughter was on the St. Joe's crew team, I use to look for fish under the pier and along the river bank. Not once did I see a single live fish; not even a minnow.
I am not reassured that running that water through a new water treatment plant is going to make it the "best" water in the country.
vfc... i live here. until recently there has been huge concern and the battle for better water in our area has gone on for quite some time. i never said we compare to the couple ground breaking facilities in california (i think los angeles). the fact still remains though that our area had been under scrutiny for quite some time (my mom was on a couple of the committees and i "volunteered" a "few" times to give her a "ride") prior to the new federal regulations from ???2006???. these new regulations pushed many of the plants in our area into the sub standard category (mine in particular pretty far into it). since then many companies sold out to those that were willing to put the money out and several of us in the area are now paying bills to totally different companies now. still a good number of the remaining plants were still forced to upgrade also.
our area in general (being most of it has the population status to fall into the categories necessary to for the new mandates to apply) has risen pretty far up there in a pretty short time percentage wise in comparison to the rest of the country.
check on it if you'd like. if you know better than i and can teach me something please do.
also... there are waste treatment/recycling plants across the entire country. most americans believe it or not drink water recycled/reclaimed from their own waste. i think the schuylkill is a little safer than that.
The Schuylkill river currently has 82 waste treatment plants along its 110 mile length; so yes we are drinking water that has passed through many bodies before we (and our fish) get our turn.
I have bookmarked most all of the waste treatment plants along the Schuylkill using Google Earth. You can also see disgusting foamy water discharge coming from some of the plants.
BTW - I have been drinking Deer Park bottled water ever since I started researching the water quality in our area.
Here is the Google Earth image from the Norristown waste treatment plant just a few miles up river from you. I can see the white stuff on occasion when I cross over the river while traveling on the PA Turnpike.
That's true. But like I stated, I can see the white foamy stuff today from this plant.
The only good news is that Bridgeport has their water intake pipe a few hundred feet down river, so they suck up (and drink) most of that foamy mix before it enters Philly city limits.
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