What's in YOUR drinking water?

they chlorinate our water.. and it's horrible! I even know when they do it! every Tuesday you can turn the faucet on and smell bleach really strong! It really drives me crazy, because I HAVE to drink water.. and being picky about anything/ everything that goes into my body it really seems that I have no choice but to drink unsafe water.

I have used the pitchers that use activated charcoal. It is just a hassle. To be honest, I think the mnerals in my local water are good for me. In the town where I work the water tastes like sulphur and salt. Underground oil, I guess. Sometimes the principal buys bottled water for the staff lounge, but it runs out awfully fast. I find that water distasteful

Lucky you. I did stumble upon another news article that the US Senate is getting involved with this AP News finding. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_senate_hearings

There's always that flavored vitamin water.

Actually, I stricter laws in purifying our water may help. Looking at the whole situation, I kind of feel that the pharmaceutical companies & doctors who prescribe these medications shouls also bear some responsibility as well.

Several gas stations in our area had gotten shut down for that very reason (MSTB - I think it was called). Quite often, gas stations would get their gasolines tested for MSTB & unsuspecting gas station owners ended up suffering the consequences. The last I had heard from one gas station owner, it was the distributor in Brooklyn that supplied his gasoline that he was selling that was the problem, & they got their supply from New Jersey.

Unfortunately, we're also near New York City, where a lot of pollution had been generated. On 9/11/2001. we may not have been close enough to hear the explosions from when the planes hit, but we were close enough to end up having some of the foul stench reach our area a couple days later. Also, in my area, tap water tasted horrible, but cleared up after maybe two weeks.

That's the one KrazyKlingon - MSTB. They say that it smells faintly like turpentine. TO me, the water smelled a little like it had some king of Pine smell to it - and then I realized it must be MSTB. After reading up on it, I found out that most tests show it can cause cancer in high doses in mice, and will show up in the bloodstream if it is breathed in and showered in. It's still up in the air as to whether it causes cancer in humans (at least in small doses.) I use my filter for all drinking water, and have a shower fan that sucks out the fumes, which I find repulsive. I just wonder why it would gather in black gooey gelatinous gloops in my toilet?! It looks like dirty petroleum jelly. Gross. Fortunately we are getting off the well and onto better (but still sucky) water this week. Oh, and btw: I looked up the history of MSTB leaks in my area, and they insist that the enarest one is too far away to affect our well. I think that the waterway nearby may be leaching into it, and lots of boats tend to leak gas as well as fumes in there. That's the one thing that the websites did say was a big contibutor to MSTB tainting. I also found out that there was once a fuel oil company in the building next door to us...It never said there were tanks, but - there might have been... Arg. Ever feel like you're up against a wall when it comes to getting information about pollution? The only way to be sure would be a $200 test that I can't afford.

Toothpaste contains some kind of fluoride. That's supposedly what prevent cavities. At the same time, in excessive amounts, it is toxic.

Luckily for my immediate area, it seems that we're good also.