Water source changed in the ACT?

OK Scientists. Here’s a more realistic summary:

Your water tastes different because it has different mineral contents due to the varying water level of the dam – think silt, that’s the level you are drinking at the moment. While water quality is measured by chemical and biological analysis, taste is determined by mineral content and the disinfectant processes (such as chlorine which is added to kill bugs).

So: The ‘environmental conditions’ is you are drinking a higher mineral content because the sediment is at a higher concentration because you are drinking the dregs of the dam. Different water supplies have different mineral content because they have travelled through different geological formations to get to the water supply source, which will also affect the taste.

Hope that helps and debunks a few myths.

Lord Mælinar.

The taste comes from environmental conditions.
Which environmental conditions? Be specific please.

And, by the way, I test weekly for carbonates, TDS and Ca/Mg cations from water that comes out my tap. So no vague waving-the-hands, specifics please.

jemmy, you’ve reinforced my initial point precisely, and you probably lack the wherewithall to see just how.

I rest my case.

The taste comes from environmental conditions.
Which environmental conditions? Be specific please. I can’t see how low inflows have any impact on the quality of the outflow, esp after treatment.

Care to backup your statement that using the heater somehow magically contributes to water taste?

They’ve been pumping water from the Murrumbidgee recently, to boost our supply… My guess is that’s got a lot to do with the different taste.

The problem with open forums like these is that the really dumb people with little grasp of reality can post their opinions as though they counted for anything.

Mr Evil, if you can’t accept the fact that in times of drought with record low inflows from a degraded catchment environment the water may not be as perfect as a bottle of spring water, maybe you need to get out there and do a reality check.

The current taste of the water has nothing to do with its safety or cleanliness, which are as always world class. The taste comes from environmental conditions. It may well become more common in the future. So next time you get into your car and drive somewhere, or turn on a heater or airconditioner, or luxuriate in a hot shower, take a moment to reflect that you are contributing to the conditions that have caused the current taste in the water. What goes around comes around, and it is coming around to bite us rather hard I fear.

Even more to the point is that when the quality changes suddenly, you have to wonder why.

Of course don’t mention this to Actew or they will make it permanantly taste like “arse” so that we will cease worring…

The point is, we’re not living in a developing country so why should we put up with crappy smelling and tasting water?

stop complaining about running water – or go to a developing nation for a reality check….

Buy yourself a filter jug, they really work.