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Re: Water in Jersey City, Hoboken tested high for turbidity, increased chance disease-carrying organisms
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The pipes in the older buildings make it worse.

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I don't know if the water in JC is healthy or not, but it tastes terrible. So I drink bottled water when I want to drink water.

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We ourselves do not ever drink tap water, filtered or not.

We exclusively only buy bottled water (2.5 gallon poland spring type ones).


Using "we ourselves" and "exclusively only" is redundant and superfluous.

Bottled water is just as unnecessary. Producing the same result with more effort is inefficient, and in this case, it's bad for the environment.

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We ourselves do not ever drink tap water, filtered or not.

We exclusively only buy bottled water (2.5 gallon poland spring type ones).

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I'm curious do people around downtown JC worry about the water? I use a Brita, but have no idea what all that really does.

Do any of you not trust United and actually buy bottled water?


I dont know if this is still true but as of 6-7 years ago federal clean water drinking standards for municipal providers were STRICTER than bottled water standards. The regulation was stricter also.

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"It is estimated that about 25 percent of the bottled waters consumed in the U.S. come from municipal water supplies..........Read the label carefully. If it is packaged as "purified" or "drinking water," chances are it came from a municipal water supply, and unless the water has been ?substantially? altered, it must state on the label that the water comes from a municipal source."

From here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5467759/

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I'm curious do people around downtown JC worry about the water? I use a Brita, but have no idea what all that really does.

Do any of you not trust United and actually buy bottled water?

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Water in Jersey City, Hoboken tested high for turbidity, United Water says

by The Jersey Journal
Tuesday December 16

United Water, which serves parts of Hudson County, violated a drinking water standard last month, it is telling its Hoboken and Jersey City customers.

The company said in a mailing and also in a newspaper advertisement that water tested at the Jersey City water treatment facility on November 22 came back with turbidity (cloudiness) level of 1.73 units, higher than the allowable rate of 1 unit.

In cases of high levels of turbidity there is an increased chance the water may contain disease-carrying organisms. But United Water assures, in the ad, that other testing showed there were no disease-carrying organisms in the water, and that it was not an emergency situation.

United Water says it has identified the problem and has taken steps to make sure it doesn't occur again.

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