Not true! NYC does not have "famously good water". I found that out when I had to change my counter-top water filter after about one year of use.
It was more than gross. Imagine having to drink that water without the benefit of a water filter. By the way, I don't think water people drink in many restaurants are filtered.
True, "all water filters get very funky after a year", that funkiness is an indication of the true quality of the water that reaches your house or apartment.
That's how you tell what you'd have been drinking without filtration.
You seem really bothered by this. What did you see in your filter after a year? Some tiny amount of algae? Some mineral deposits? Do you prefer your water taste like a chlorinated pool?
> Imagine having to drink that water without the benefit of a water filter.
We don't have to imagine it. Plenty of people do.
Concentrate a year's worth of tiny impurities and you'll wind up a bit of sludge, yes. You'd probably get it even with pure distilled water from dust and microbes in the air.
Chances are you're breathing a lot more nasty in from taxi exhaust and human feces from farts than you're getting from that water.
The water towers on top of NYC buildings tend to not be maintained especially well:
With their quaint barrel-like contours and weathered
cedar-plank sides, rooftop water towers are a constant on
the New York City skyline. And though they may look like
relics of a past age, millions of residents get their
drinking water from the tanks every day.
But inside these rustic-looking vessels, there are often
thick layers of muddy sediment. Many have not been
cleaned or inspected in years. And regulations governing
water tanks are rarely enforced, an examination by The
New York Times shows.
That the water at the source is clean may be true, but you judge the water by its nature at the final destination, because in the final analysis, that is where the grade of quality matters to those who'll be drinking it.
Not true! NYC does not have "famously good water". I found that out when I had to change my counter-top water filter after about one year of use.
It was more than gross. Imagine having to drink that water without the benefit of a water filter. By the way, I don't think water people drink in many restaurants are filtered.