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amother

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Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:48 am

We live in NYC. I grew up in NYC. I never had filtered water. We drank water from the tap. Or filled a picture from the tap and kept it in the fridge for cold water.

Filtered or bottles water is just not on my radar. When we have guests we put a few bottled waters in their rooms but we don't use bottled water on the regular. Filtered and bottled water is expensive and not a priority for me.

I have a relative coming to stay and she told me she only drinks bottled or filtered water. She said this as a given. I'm wondering if this is a standard standard and I'm just killing myself slowly with tap water. Is this something I should accommodate?

What are your thoughts?

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Ema of 4

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:49 am

We live in Bayswater and only drink/use filtered

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SuperWify

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:49 am

I never drink from the tap. Filtered or bottles only.

I don’t know about health, I just can’t stand the taste.

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amother

Chicory

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:50 am

Is she staying for a while? If it's just a few days I would just get some water bottles for her.

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groovy1224

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:50 am

For Kashrus reasons, your NYC water should be filtered.

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little neshamala

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:51 am

Monsen NY-I always drink tap water.
When we have guests I try to remember to buy some bottled if they prefer

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simcha2

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:51 am

I thought in NYC you needed filtered for kashrut reasons.

We don't drink tap water in NYC (MO if it matters)

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amother

Silver

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:51 am

There is a kashrus issue with some water systems. I would buy bottled water for a guest who asks.

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amother

Midnight

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:52 am

SuperWify wrote:

I never drink from the tap. Filtered or bottles only.

I don’t know about health, I just can’t stand the taste.

In NYC the two water is well know to be delicious.

OP: lifelong NYCer. We only use tap water.

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amother

Currant

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:52 am

We use filtered and tap. Sometimes bottled but I don't like bottled because the water has been sitting in plastic but What

What

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groovy1224

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:53 am

groovy1224 wrote:

For Kashrus reasons, your NYC water should be filtered.

Just clicked on this thread again by accident. Wondering why this was hugged. This is a well known psak, it's not a chumra or minhag.

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amother

Copper

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:53 am

We use a Brita that we fill from the tap. We take reusable water bottles filled from the Brita when we go out. Before the summer I buy 1 case of disposable water bottles from Costco to send on camp trips or give to guests or handymen or whomever. We always end up with extra.

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amother

DarkGray

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:54 am

groovy1224 wrote:

For Kashrus reasons, your NYC water should be filtered.

Most of us have a filter system under the sink and drink from the tap, which has been filtered. There is a thing in the tap itself as well. The system is cheap and easy to install, no reason for a pricey one. So we drink from the tap, but its filtered tap.

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amother

Midnight

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:56 am

amother [ Midnight ] wrote:

In NYC the tap water is well know to be delicious.

OP: lifelong NYCer. We only use tap water.

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imaima

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 11:57 am

I find it is a fair request.

Some people have finicky digestive systems.
There can be an issue with fluorid for some.

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groovy1224

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 12:01 pm

amother [ DarkGray ] wrote:

Most of us have a filter system under the sink and drink from the tap, which has been filtered. There is a thing in the tap itself as well. The system is cheap and easy to install, no reason for a pricey one. So we drink from the tap, but its filtered tap.

I lived in NYC for a few years, and I rented (as did my friends at the time). We all used the filters that go over the faucet (EZ filter was the name I believe). I never looked into the under the sink filter, I assumed it would be expensive and it didn't make sense to put that money into a rental.

Doesn't matter so much what you use, as long as it filters out the microscopic copepods which render NYC drinking water not kosher.

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amother

Tanzanite

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 12:04 pm

We live in nj and drink unfiltered tap water.
Once had a family of 8 come. Only drank bottled water. It was hard.
They came from A city were the water tastes disgusting. Like chlorine pool water. So understand there.
But our water tastes fine. But they wouldn’t drink it. So I borrowed from neighbor on Shabbos to repay after.

SixOfWands

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 12:10 pm

groovy1224 wrote:

Just clicked on this thread again by accident. Wondering why this was hugged. This is a well known psak, it's not a chumra or minhag.

People here hug whatever they disagree with, just to be passive aggressive. See, eg, https://oukosher.org/blog/cons.....ater/

I've heard the psak, but its not something that we hold by. CYLOR.

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amother

Foxglove

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 12:14 pm

Besides for the kashrus issue nyc water tastes disgusting. I have never been to a house in nyc that didn’t have bottled or filtered water.

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amother

Daylily

Tue, Oct 12 2021, 12:16 pm

Whenever we go to my in-laws in Brooklyn we take along a case of gallon spring water. They're so accommodating with everything else, but somehow they take it very personal when we voice our displeasure against their tap water.

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