Blog #15: Drinking water

Drinking water in California

Certain areas of California have contaminated drinking water, for example in Kettleman city.  Areas near agriculture are more prone to contaminants due to their proximity to pollutants from farming and dairy.  My source of drinking water come from municipal wells.  Fresno city's watershed is at Millerton dam.  I do use a home osmosis system throughout my household with carbon and Nacl pellets.  Although, our city water is treated through our water treatment plant, I don't trust the quality of the water because of its chlorinated taste.  I know this because I taste the difference in the tap water in Vancouver, Canada to Fresno's tap water.  The tap water in Vancouver tastes pure and it taste like your drinking the better quality of bottled water on the market.  My water system is filtering out the chemicals used to treat my drinking water.  When I go to the gym or when I'm at work I do drink bottled water, and yes, I did watch the video on the 'story of bottled water'.  The information surprised me so now I look at the source and where it's bottled.  Evian is bottled water that I trust and drink as opposed to the lower grades of water.  Even the lower grades of bottled water are filtered with reverse osmosis and is considered clean compared to our tap water, which I will not drink.