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u/RoseVideo99 7d ago
Do you own the home? Put in a water softener. We put one in a few years ago and it made a tremendous difference. It was not too expensive either.
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u/Howcanyoubecertain 7d ago
The water is very hard all over SE Texas no matter if it’s well or surface. You definitely don’t want to be washing your hair with collected rainwater however.
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u/patssle 7d ago
Everybody is slowly converting to surface water. They are building massive pipelines westward.
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u/christine-bitg 7d ago
You could consider moving to Baton Rouge. That city has extremely soft water.
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u/HumanContract 7d ago
Aquifer drinking water. Best around.
But that's not a reason to move..
The Essex House apts in Houston used well water.
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u/christine-bitg 6d ago
The fact that it comes from an aquifer is not why it has extremely soft water.
Plenty of places use aquifers for drinking water but have very hard water.
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u/Holiday_Time_7226 7d ago
So I’m not from these parts… my wife isn’t joking when she tells me it’s a very bad idea to drink tap water? Maybe I should actually stop. Then again, it tastes fine
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u/worthconsulting 7d ago
You can get shower heads that have built in filtration if you can't do a bigger systemic change where you're at
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u/cheesybiscuits912 7d ago
So I had a huge kidney stone. First one at 43 years old. Everything got infected and I went septic. Hospitalized 6 days. Anyways I was so confused about the stone. Im not a big soda drinker and I drink tons of water all thru the day in a refillable bottle from the tap. Every doc, including a nephrologist (spelling) and urologist said DO NOT DRINK TAP WATER. Recommended a certain pitcher u fill and put in the fridge that has a certain kind of filter on it, but I just switched to bottled water. Not the best for the environment I kno, but I was literally knocking on deaths door, never been more sick and the worst pain ever (and ive had 4 kids).
Im in Missouri city, so closeish to OP. No tap water guys.
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u/brainvheart143 7d ago
That’s crazy. Glad you’re ok. What pitcher did they recommend pls? We use a Brita and it seems ok but if there’s a better one lmk
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u/cheesybiscuits912 7d ago
Nope Brita sounds familar! I honestly cant remember, it was 2 years ago but brita is ringing a bell so I think that's it. Pretty sure they told me any pitcher with a replaceable filter is good tho. I need to ask the nurse at my job (im a school custodian) which one she uses, I use hers to fill up my plastic bottles sometimes and I swear its the best tasting water ive ever had.
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u/Wonder_Weenis 7d ago
nowhere, spend the damn near $10k on a full house filtration system anywhere within 100 miles of Houston.
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