Bad tasting tap water?

JenniFurr · 17-05-2016 10:56am #1

I'm just wondering how many people here have very bad tasting tap water? Mine is awful. I moved into my house about two years ago and bought a coffee machine around the same time. I was going to return it because everything from it tasted terrible until I realised it was the water and not the coffee pods. It has a noticeable plastic/stagnant taste to it. I live on the Cork Road/Kingsmeadow area.

cookie.monster · 17-05-2016 3:43pm

JenniFurr wrote: »

I'm just wondering how many people here have very bad tasting tap water? Mine is awful. I moved into my house about two years ago and bought a coffee machine around the same time. I was going to return it because everything from it tasted terrible until I realised it was the water and not the coffee pods. It has a noticeable plastic/stagnant taste to it. I live on the Cork Road/Kingsmeadow area.

we're having horrible tasting water lately in kill st lawrence

tankbarry · 17-05-2016 4:05pm

Up in hazelbourne it can be very bad almost a chemical type smell and taste

cococoady · 17-05-2016 6:18pm

I wouldn't be surprised if something was added to the water to make it taste bad so people will be fooled into thinking that Irish water is needed and everyone should pay their bills

MRnotlob606 · 17-05-2016 6:31pm

its fine gael water

JenniFurr · 17-05-2016 6:35pm

tankbarry wrote: »

Up in hazelbourne it can be very bad almost a chemical type smell and taste

Thanks how I would describe it too. It's sort of like a plastic-y taste. Like if you get a new sports bottle and don't wash it before using, but much stronger.

blackcard · 17-05-2016 6:40pm

tankbarry wrote: »

Up in hazelbourne it can be very bad almost a chemical type smell and taste

Chlorine is added to the water to kill bacteria, same as the vast majority of public water supplies in the world. The residual strength is usually less than 1 part per million. Fluoride is also added to most public water supplies at the behest of the HSE. However, it is most likely chlorine you can taste as most people can taste this when it is diluted in water by one part in 2, 000, 000

johndoe99 · 17-05-2016 6:42pm

JenniFurr wrote: »

Thanks how I would describe it too. It's sort of like a plastic-y taste. Like if you get a new sports bottle and don't wash it before using, but much stronger.

i was only saying the same to my mother yesterday, that the water tastes and smells like chemicals. I'm in Ballybricken.

Wanderer78 · 17-05-2016 8:32pm

i wonder is there chlorine issues in the system

Wren2893 · 21-05-2016 1:22pm

Mine also has a bad, "chemical" taste. It could well be a chlorine issue. I can often smell the chemicals in it before I drink it. AFAIK, flourine has a similar smell in water, but wouldn't cause a bad taste.

shockwave · 22-05-2016 7:50am

Sometimes if you hold a glass of water up to the light you can see tiny little floaters so I filter all drinking water now helps take the taste out of it too

MIKEKC · 22-05-2016 8:29am

cococoady wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if something was added to the water to make it taste bad so people will be fooled into thinking that Irish water is needed and everyone should pay their bills

Or worse still buy bottled water, which would cost a lot more than paying your water bill

floyd333 · 24-05-2016 9:12am

If yiou live in an old house it could be lead water. I have lead pipes going into my house. We drink all bottled water.

And still they expect me to pay:rolleyes:

Wally Runs · 24-05-2016 9:32am

You might report your concerns to Irish Water and or the EPA.

Irish Water have an interactive map so you can see if there are issues in your area (http://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/results/) & (http://www.water.ie/water-supply/water-quality/faq/) and the EPA have an annual report on Water Quality (http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/water/drinking/). I cannot see any issues with Waterford City, but there maybe a number of supply points.

Regardless of pay, do not pay debate, the staff at Irish Water are trying to improve the water service (as opposed to keeping it ticking over, as before) and your feedback on issues can only help that process.

Best of luck.

spankmemunkey · 31-05-2016 12:06pm

As the previous poster said, I would firstly report the problem and keep reporting it, I had someone call out to my house before.

At the end of the day water comes out of a pipe from a hole in the ground so by the time it gets to your tap imagine what its been through.

I would never drink tap water full stop. I would use it for tea and that but the thing is if there are chemicals in your water and you boil it then all your doin is increasing the chemical in the water.

I use Brita Filters and that really takes out the chlorine smell at least, I was told by a guy who installs industrial water filters that the Brita filters are actually quite good for what they do.

deisemum · 31-05-2016 4:26pm

Same in Viewmount, it's generally quite good but lately it's got a bad taste.

Bad tasting tap water?

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