Since the water went off several weeks ago and they did an emergency replacement on that pipe along manhattan ave, we've had metallic and chemically tasting water. I always drink sparkling water so hadn't noticed until sipping some tap water this morning and was like, "gefbg!v$bg this tastes awful!" the 3 other people in the house agreed and said they thought it was just in their heads. So apparently it isn't just in our heads, at least here, but the pipe replacement was literally right outside our apartment so I'm wondering if it's just us, or if others are experiencing this too?
I haven't noticed it with cooking thankfully, but the taste is unbearable to me, I can take a tiny sip in the morning to un-dry my mouth a little but that's it - and even that kinda gives me a sore throat (I've always been temperamentally sensitive to water doing that though, I can't even drink dasani bottled or similar quality brands, $1 bottles of poland springs are fine thankfully haha). Anyway... is this just us/our building or is it a bigger issue? And any idea if there's anything to be done about it other than wait 100 years for that pipe to be as well seasoned as the one they removed?
I'd let the water run awhile and see if it makes a difference. Usually n y c tap water , especially through something like a britta filter is pretty good. Does your building have any kind of filtration system in place or local work?
Nah, it's not our building pipes nothing's changed there and it used to taste really good before the work outside : / I'm thinking we're gonna have to accept the loss and get a Britta unfortunately now, obviously no one else is experiencing it or I'd imagine the comments would be lit up already
I noticed this and thought it was in my head bc my partner said it tasted no different! This is validating lol
Yeah my wife isn't nearly as bothered about it as me - says it tastes just a little weird, it's undrinkable to me. The kids think it tastes pretty bad but they can drink it at least so that's good. I guess if there's no safety issue I'm just gonna not worry about it and go on drinking my sparkling water without feeling bad about at least occasionally having straight tap water haha
Gah I noticed this too. My sister described it as tasting “dusty”.
I thought at first sip that it tasted like a swimming pool, but dusty seems right too! It left me with a gritty/dusty feeling in the back of my throat even after just the one drink before I noped back to my cans of sparkling water lol