24 Miles
That’s all that separates the country’s best water from the country’s worse water.
Does that make sense?
I live in the area with the best water, and work in the area with the worst.
I don’t notice a bit of difference. And given a choice, I’d drink Pensacola water before I’d drink water from say…Midland, TX. OMG, that water there is the WORST! It smells like it’s wafting from hell as it comes out of the tap, and tastes as if brimstone had been stirred into it.
And then there was southern Illinois water. Not as bad as Midland water, but it was hard for me to get used to having to have a ‘softener’ for the water. And the residue it left on the glasses! Yuck.
Seriously, however…I’m glad I have bottled water at work. I did that before the study came out. And my folks still live there, but they do filter their water. But a mere 24 miles from great to unsafe…makes me glad to live in a rural part of the country. It’s an inconvenience sometimes…but more and more it’s proving to be worth it.
And I like the idea of living near farms when the economy seriously goes tits-up…instead of being in the city where mayhem could so seriously reign.
Okay, as long as where on the subject of water, here’s one of my favorite water videos:
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:00 am
#3 and #8 worst water quality currently. I was in #9 for many years. I guess I’m just lucky that way.
(In San Diego, we lived on Brita-filtered water. It was the only way to go. Here in Vegas, bottled bottled bottled and more bottled. I’ll eventually get the Brita thing shipped out)
December 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
You’re spot on about the water in Midland/Odessa. It really is brimstone — sulfur mining abounds in the Permian and all their water comes from sulfur-saturated wells.