[IstillLoveVistaBaby]

As the title states, I'm looking into relocating and wondering where the freshest water is in the states. I would like to not be in an urban area with heavily-tainted fluoride (sodium fluoride actually) water.

Also, does anyone know anything about reverse-osmosis filters that you can have in the home to purify your water and de-fluoride it?

I was thinking Colorado / Utah for if you can live high enough in the mountains you can get enough fresh water, although the runoff from the slopes usually contains giardia.

The gulf coast and southeast are horrible - anywhere under the water table is shit, as is the midwest great lakes region, from what I remember.

[Vinny]

Not sure if serious, but check out Serbia. There is an entire river full of drinkable water called Tara.

[PharaohRa]

Try Greenland or Iceland.

[The White Wolf]

Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania is known for its natural artesian wells - very fresh and clean water. Population 3,000 in South-Central Pennsylvania

[Armogan]

Beverly Hills.

My theory is that Evian is actually from Beverly Hills. No proof yet just a hunch.

[IstillLoveVistaBaby]

I doubt anything in southern commiefornia is fresh... really? Was there not too long ago, outside the downtown area the whole place seemed third-worldish.

[Armogan]

I rarely drink tap water, but BH water tastes amazing to me.

Also, I know someone who's a water engineer for the City of Los Angeles. You'd be surprised about the water quality, they take it very seriously. Definitely not third world.

Makes sense when you think about it more. Liberal commies want fresh and clean water for all the illegals.

[kosko]

It depends what you mean by "clean"?

Municipal (City) water is cleaner than mass market mottled water. City water is tested multiple times per day and has higher quality testing versus dumpy nestle shit they pump out of a aquifer and put into a bottle.

I don't think it is ever a question of water quality versus the availability of water sanitation services. Majority of people in the world get there water from some underground water table. It is just a mater of how untouched that water table is and how much is kept free off impurities. If there are impurities then what scale and ability is there to clean them out.

Most "clean" water I ever tasted was from some spring in B.C. just off the highway a bit. It was crystal blue and (looked) clean as hell. The water tasted very fresh to me.

But this is misleading. Because the most healthy water isn't "clean" it is full of minerals and salts and has a very funky mineral taste to it. That type of water is the most healthy for you as it is full of good trace minerals for your body. In North America we are obsessed with "clean" and thus will nuke our water so it is nothing more than dead water with a little bit of sodium in it.

[FlyHigher123]

Sidenote: This reminds me of seeing 'Smart Water' by Coca-Cola. Heavily processed water to remove anything good the nature has added to the water and then adding some low value ingredients to give it a taste. Marketed in a fancy package for a high price.

[Sherman]

In Mexico, you don't drink the tap water. You buy it at places that sell water. I buy a 5 gallon jug for 9 pesos. I am not sure how they purify the water, but it tastes really good. There is no chemical after taste.

[sterling_archer]

Croatia is known in the world for its large reserves of clean water. Plitvice national park come to my mind as something people from whole world want to see. Many lakes, on various altitudes, practically all connected and with pristine water quality.
There were some interesting articles by some Croatian conspiracy theorists which say that if there would be a war for water, instead for oil, Croatia would be prime target.

[thebassist]

(05-20-2017 10:43 PM)FlyHigher123 Wrote:  

Sidenote: This reminds me of seeing 'Smart Water' by Coca-Cola. Heavily processed water to remove anything good the nature has added to the water and then adding some low value ingredients to give it a taste. Marketed in a fancy package for a high price.

Yeah I saw this being marketed heavily in SF- it's funny how they try to make it sound somewhat natural: "it's as if you're drinking water straight out of a cloud".

It's just distilled water devoid of any and all minerals naturally occurring in water, with some cheap electrolytes (lol) added to it. It's all buzzwords with no substance to it: electrolytes are just molecules that split when in water (you can just add a grain of salt to your water and then say it's WATER WITH BENEFICIAL ELECTROLYTES ADDED, WOW JUST LOOK AT HOW SCIENTIFIC WE SOUND), and all they've done to produce their water is boil it and then condense it separately so that any beneficial minerals that could have been in the water originally are now gone.

Fun fact is that drinking large quantities of distilled water regularly is pretty shit for your body: since the parts of your body interacting with this mineral-devoid water while it's being processed will certainly have higher concentrations of beneficial minerals, the water will essentially leach these minerals from you until it has the same concentration of them as the surrounding body, after which you will then proceed to piss out these beneficial minerals now leached from your body by this unnatural, nutrient-devoid water.

The people who buy this stuff are just falling prey to pseudoscientific sounding buzzwords around a shit product that's named in such a way that their consumers will also feel so SMART when they buy some of that SMART WATER with ADDED ELECTROLYTES.

Terrible product, smart marketing.

[Troller]

Black alkaline water:

https://getblk.co.uk/

[cosine]

I live in Colorado. It's really nice to have good, clean, clear water flowing straight out of the faucet.

In general though you aren't going to find the best water in Denver. You gotta get into the mountains, or at least closer to them.

I bet spots like NH or VT are pretty good too, plenty hilly and not that many people to contaminate it.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

Water quality depends on sourcing of water (best from mountains in pure source), then the entire purity and tech of facility and then the pipes. In addition it matters what the government does to the water in addition.

Certain parts in Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland have such water and fulfill the criteria. Some towns like Vienna (50% of the town depending on where you live) have water that could be bottled and is as pure as Perrier.

US or UK water is generally a lot worse:

Not all areas get fluoridated water - you have to check locally.

If you have fluoridated water, then you ingest a toxic carcinogenic brew that has been sold as beneficial. Even bathing in it is toxic.


You can easily find plenty of studies which prove that fluoride is not beneficial, but lowers IQ, decreases cognitive capacity, makes a people more docile and causes a bunch of ailments like cancer and other such goodies.

Many did not know that most communist countries and the NAZIs in the concentration camp fluoridated the water supply. The teeth of communist countries were shit and so was the water supply. Health of teeth by the way depends heavily on nutrient density of food and proper care and dentistry (all of that was lacking in communist countries).

[Robert High Hawk]

Any one of the small to medium sized towns and cities in the Alps (Swiss/Austria/German and probably French) has amazing water. Innsbruck in particular is small/medium sized city that has great Alpine water. I even heard Munich has good water too since it's just down stream from the Alps. I'm sure US mountain towns are similar.

Just depends on how far away from urbanity you want to go....

[TheFinalEpic]

reverse osmosis machine.

[scotian]

I heard that Canada has clean water.

[RatInTheWoods]

Just get a top shelf water filter fitted to your tap, problem solved.

No need to move.

[churros]

(05-21-2017 03:41 AM)thebassist Wrote:  

Fun fact is that drinking large quantities of distilled water regularly is pretty shit for your body: since the parts of your body interacting with this mineral-devoid water while it's being processed will certainly have higher concentrations of beneficial minerals, the water will essentially leach these minerals from you until it has the same concentration of them as the surrounding body, after which you will then proceed to piss out these beneficial minerals now leached from your body by this unnatural, nutrient-devoid water.

Very interesting. Do Britta filters have this effect?

[aeroektar]

Here's a website for finding local springs http://www.findaspring.com

I drove 45 minutes to one near me yesterday and filled up some bottles. All of the vegetation around the spring was so lush and alive and there's a giant quartz boulder, it was a pretty cool experience and the water tastes great.

[QuietDon]

Hubsgul lake in Mongolia. Has the 1 percent of World's clean water

[Stealth]

(05-21-2017 07:28 PM)Robert High Hawk Wrote:  

I even heard Munich has good water too since it's just down stream from the Alps.

Years ago I was speaking with a couple German friends of mine, and they were going on about how they had a food quality revolution in Germany decades before, and how many things sold in North America and Asia could never be labeled and sold the same way in Germany. Stuff like fruit juice needing to be organic, made from actual fruit and not from concentrate, etc.

Part of this, one of them said also (and mentioned Munich in particular), that the municipality didn't consider it sufficient for the water supply to simply be safe, that it actually had to taste good as well.

And from a later visit there, I have to say it certainly did.

[Ballr]

Science is nutty. Nothing we read online can truly pin-point what is clean water or not. Let's look at the healthiest looking people in the world by country and make our pick that way.

Proof of concept, gentlemen. We use a lot of scientific jargon we read online from statistics to graphs on RVF. All we're doing is copying n pasting what some other asshole made up (in my opinion).

[Kona]

Its hawaii for best water in USA.

All water here is rainwater that is filtered through volcanic soil and takes twenty five years to get to aquifers. Plus, most of the infrastructure that brings water to people is a lot newer than most cities. We've had environmental regulations on sewage way before the EPA was even around. In some cities like Chicago you can have a pipe that was around since 1850. But here in Hawaii, the white man didn't illegally overthrow us until way after that, so its all newer. On top of all that, we got a lot of asians, and they are generally craftier people.

Now the bureaucracy that runs our water is probably the worst in the country. I've personally bribed a Board of Water Supply inspector over a new hydrant. Its a bunch of bullshit. The permitting is a joke if you want to build , so good luck.

Aloha!