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Do water filters make city water taste better?

I recently moved to the city from a very rural town. After drinking well water all my life, city water is like drinking out of a swimming pool. I’ve tried boiling it and that doesn’t help. Do water filters like Brita, PUR, etc help at all or are they a waste of money? Is there anything else I can try short of buying bottled water?

The filters really help, I had the same issue! If you want to go a cheaper route, they also sell the water pitchers that filter your tap water to keep in your fridge. These work just fine & you can purchase at Target, KMart, Walmart, etc.

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10 Responses to “Do water filters make city water taste better?”

  1. no
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  2. Slick like Rick on October 6th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    they just make it look cleaner in all honesty.
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  3. ~Susakins Makoozakins~ on October 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    I can tell a HUGE difference in my water - from tap to using the Pur water filter. I fill up a pitchure and keep it in the fridge.
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    HAPPY DRINKING!!!!

  4. The filters really help, I had the same issue! If you want to go a cheaper route, they also sell the water pitchers that filter your tap water to keep in your fridge. These work just fine & you can purchase at Target, KMart, Walmart, etc.
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  5. tastes better . . but I don’t think they actually get out all the chlorine.
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  6. Yes they take the chlorine taste out so it stops tasting like swimming pool water, along with other sediments and minerals. I have a simple kitchen faucet Teledyne Water Pik filter that I installed myself. Easy to install, easy to use, and the replacement filters are reasonable. Get one at Ace Hardware or Walmart.

    Be careful buying bottled water. An expose recently revealed that many of them are really no better than tapwater.
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  7. Water filters can help take out the chlorine smell pretty effectively. They also are far more efficient than bottled water, as they can filter a lot of water before you have to change them.

    Otherwise, you can try leaving a pitcher of water out on the counter for a day in the sunlight. The UV light and the heat might help a bit.
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  8. Bailey Due 4/6/09 on October 6th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    yes we have a pur water filter and i can taste the difference. you can always tell when you need to change the filter to cause it starts to taste gross again! we save so much money not buying bottled water.
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  9. chocoholic1684 on October 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    i would try water filters as sometimes city water is not properly filtered so give it a go and you never know it might taste even better than water from a well
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  10. Diamond Strength on October 6th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    it suppose to make it cleaner but I think the city test their water all the time so it should be clean any way.
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