Have to admit for all it’s faults, NY has very good tasting water.
I’ve gone to states where I couldn’t even gargle with the water.
Of course, well water rocks.
I have had a Brita pitcher for my not so good well water. It would turn my filter green and this summer I told my wife I am done. Buy bottled water. We have a rural water source a mile away and I do need a backup system. Hopefully by next year I can get that. Then I will have another montly bill.
I think that it's aquifered snow runoff from the Adirondacks. I guess it's kink of self-filtered.
“NY”
Long Island is basically a giant aquifier. NYC gets its water from that. Don’t know about mainland NY.
We’ve had a well for 30 yrs. & then more people moved out
here and were on wells. Then, when “city water” came in,
they all hooked on. We did not. Now, the sulfur in our
well water has diluted since we’re the only ones on it. -
I’m used to it; but city people make rude noises when they
drink out water. I don’t even offer unless asked any more.
We had it tested several years ago and it tested OK.
Boston always has great tap water.The city built what’s called the Quabbin Reservoir 60 miles east of the city in the 1930’s. The water is sent to Boston via aqueducts.
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/18/boston-wins-annual-tap-water-taste-contest/
This is how they did:
Buried Towns
The Quabbin Reservoir was built in the 1930s. It was created by flooding the Swift River Valley, a name given to this area by Europeans whom began settling here in the 1730s. In pre-colonial times a Native American chief named Quabbin lived in the valley. The name Quabbin means ‘many waters’.
The reservoir was built by the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (MDC). Buildings were demolished, topsoil was scrapped off and railroad tracks were torn up. All people living in the valley were forced to sell their homes and leave. In the end, 36 miles of state highway were relocated; many miles of other roads were abandoned; 16 miles of railroad tracks were removed; 8 train stations were demolished; the contents of mills, farms, stores and houses were sold or auctioned, and structures were bulldozed into their foundations; hilltops and mountaintops became islands; and 7500 bodies were removed from old cemeteries and re-interred in Quabbin Park Cemetery in the town of Ware, MA. Once the valley was cleared, It took 7 years for the reservoir to fill.