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Some people don’t have access to decent tasting tap water and bottled water is expensive.

Tip: If your water tastes like chlorine, just fill a pitcher and put it in the fridge. Whatever chemicals they use will off gas overnight and it’ll taste great in the morning.

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scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes chlorine is a very volatile chemical and dissipates quickly.

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scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you have the money for it a water bottle with a filter (even just the carbon Brita ones) improve the taste immensely. I use an Epic water filter for everything and it makes nearly all water taste good*.

The only exception I had was the Atlanta airport I have no clue what the fuck was going on their but the water was disgusting.

Also worth noting: don’t use a filtered water bottle for actually filtering water that has contaimints you are actually worried about consuming; none except for grayl actually match their claimed results with third party testing.
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- null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I installed a filter under our kitchen sink, with a separate small tap.
  
  10/10 recommend this approach.
  
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overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t know if offgassing is the reason the water tastes better when cooled overnight. I would do this with an enclosed bottle (no off-gassing possible) and it would taste equally better.

Definitely cooling it is an improvement, I always thought it tasted different due to how our mouth/taste buds responds to the dropping temperature.

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grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The water at my office smells like chlorine. It’s dreadful. I wouldn’t even use it to make coffee, I fill up a nalgene at home and bring that in. My home water is well water and tastes a tad high iron, just the way I like it. (HOA regularly tests the water and it’s always within legal limits, yay.)

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neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Some people don’t have access to decent tasting tap water

Most people IMHO.

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- olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You should try it in Iceland. Tap water is so clean you practically ruin it by putting it in plastic.
  
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  - neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Never been, but I’m sure their tap water is great for the same reason mine is: Plenty of mountainous lakes, and not that many people around them.
    
    I generally don’t drink nk bottled water… It tastes… stale.
    
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- Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My tap water is pretty good, too bad we can’t send taste over the internet
  
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  - neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Where do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?
    
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    Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Southwestern NH
    
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