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Drinking Water

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  • 03-10-2010 6:36pm
    #1
    colly_06
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering what people do in regards to the water in Laois.

    What do you do? 40 votes

    Drink Water Straight From Tap
    0% 0 votes
    Filter Tap Water With A Water Filter
    40% 16 votes
    Use Built In Water Softener With Salt
    30% 12 votes
    Buy Bottled Water
    10% 4 votes
    Other
    20% 8 votes


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    #2
    contentking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭contentking


    Britta Filter works great.


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    #3
    adser53
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭adser53


    We've a water softener that came preinstalled in the house under the kitchen sink


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    #4
    MickShamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭MickShamrock


    Straight from the tap for me.


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    **Vai**
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭**Vai**


    Straight from the tap although I know some parts of town have fairly bad water.


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    #6
    genie_us
    Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭genie_us


    Have an american fridge with a water dispenser, change the filter around twice a year


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    Roaster
    Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Roaster


    We had to buy a water filtering system and get a maintenace service every year.

    I tell you if these fookers try and bring in water charges I'll be writing to every TD, Councilor, etc. and telling them I'm not paying for 3rd world quality of water....which it would be without the filtering system.


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    Daithi BC
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Daithi BC


    I'm on my own well. Just had the water tested a month ago, and in general the quality is excellent, but the hardness is over twice the recommended level. We put the drinking water through a Brita filter and soften the rest of it.


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    #9
    ILA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭ILA


    Currently use a water filter for Brita. However for years we used to drink the water straight and I don't think it did any harm. That said our water seems to be different than that found in town (live 2 miles outside), the town water tastes fierce and the lime is unreal.

    I won't be happy if they bring in Water Charges, put it that way, unless they can seriously prove that it will in any way improve the quality of the water.


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    #10
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,594 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    been drinking portarlington town water straight from the tap for 33 years.. never had any problem with it


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    #11
    grizzly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    The water quality has been getting worse. I use a filter.


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    #12
    Bonnie Potts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Bonnie Potts


    I've seen what it does to my kettle and washing machine, i certainly won't put it into my body! Sometimes it comes out brown and it doesn't taste good. :eek:


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