Unpopular opinion: Water from a well is better than storing city tap water in bombshelters

I spent 5 years stocking plastic jugs of city water in my shelter near Denver. After a 3-day power outage last fall, I cracked one open and the taste was awful. That's when I realized I was just trading one dependency for another. Now I'm digging a hand-pump well on my property, and I bet the water will stay fresh and taste normal. Has anyone else ditched bottled water for an underground spring?

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price.ray2d ago

Nah man, city water is tested and treated, a well is just a gamble on what's actually in the ground.

jessej232d ago

Haha yeah you got a point... my neighbor's well water in Weld County tasted sweeter than anything I've ever gotten from the tap. City water just has that weird chemical aftertaste no matter how much they test it.

gray_morgan2d ago

My uncle near Colorado Springs hit groundwater at 47 feet with a hand auger back in '98, and that water tested cleaner than anything coming out of the Denver treatment plant... @price.ray you're right that city water gets tested, but they add so much chlorine and fluoride to it that after three days in a plastic jug it tastes like a swimming pool. A friend of mine up in Fort Collins got her well tested and it had less total dissolved solids than the bottled spring water at the grocery store.