When I lived in Ohio, our water had high iron content, leaving rusty deposits on my shower, sink, even clothes. Now, living in Florida, our water here is rich in limestone deposits (probably calcium too), which I find being worse than iron. After just a few uses, small limestone stains get accumulated on the shower glass door or curtain, and I even notice it on plates / glasses fresh from the dishwasher. What's the water like where you live?
I got quite a shock when I was living in the UK because the water had lime in it and everything ended up nasty. In NZ water is... water, sure it's got fluoride (in most places) and there must be some sort of chlorine to kill the bugs but we get no residues, there's nothing to worry about.
We currently get our water from a reservoir owned by the next town. In August, it gets what the water department calls, "the bloom" which is some sort of algae that causes the water to smell swampy and unfit for drinking. Our town is drilling new wells for water, but that is taking years. So, our water is okay for most of the year, but the dog days of summer cause us to use bottled or filtered water.
We get our water from meltoff from the Yoho Glacier. The glacier is 8k long, 2k wide, and 1,300 feet thick. The town that I live in has a water bottling plant and sells this glacier water all over the world. There is a waterfall, 1,400 feet high at the base of the glacier that is the 2nd highest waterfall in Canada. This thing freezes in the winter and ice climbers climb up it. I sometimes do my cross country skiing up to the falls in the winter and watch them.
It does, though the water department says that it is safe to drink ("within parameters".) We had a series of water filters installed under the kitchen sink, so we have clean drinking and cooking water on tap. However, showering and laundry issues remain as we decided that it was too expensive to put in a whole house filter. The sort of good news is that my town has an incentive to dig the new wells because they are paying the neighboring town for the water we use and the well water will be free (for the most part.) But it seems like it will still be quite a while before the new wells covering my part of town are completed.
The bottled water is "Kicking Horse Glacier Water". The glacier meltoff is the source of the Kicking Horse River which is tapped into our water lines. Glacier water is so pure that it doesn't even need to be filtered. The water is normally a glacier blue color except in the spring when the river turns an emerald green, this is due to mineral rich silt from the glacier. There are over 400 glaciers all within an hours drive from my home. I sometimes strap on my ice crampons, my helmet, and grab my icepick, backpack, ropes, headlamp, and climb them and explore the ice caves and crevasses with fellow enthusiasts.
When we finish updating and enhancing the DP World Foodie Tour Bus, we may have to add a stop at a restaurant along the river. Unfortunately, it has been in the shop for many years now with little progress.
It was the same thing with me until I purchased one of your Motivation Model tinfoil hats. I realize that due to high demand that they are hard to come by, but surely the boss can scrounge one up for himself?
Minsk, Belarus, Europe, yet more advertising. The tap water is good, with the usual slight sanitary processing, is extracted through the drilled wells from the depth of several hundred metres. Several of these drilled wells produce nice natural mineral water, which is bottled, and then exported to other countries. google.com / minskaya natural mineral water
It's not motivation that is slowing progress with the DP Foodie World Tour Bus; it's that the specifications keep changing as we add more geographies to the planned tour due to interesting foods being suggested. Crossing the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, e.g., requires enhanced technology.
In my area, the water not only contains lime but also contains iron and nickel because I live in a nickel mining area in Indonesia, specifically in Central Sulawesi, Morowali, Bahodopi.
We are actually confused and want to find a way to improve the water we consume every day so that it becomes clean water and is not contaminated by small particles.
Our fridge has a filter, which helps. It's pretty expensive (as jrbiz also mentioned) to have a whole house filter. Won't justify the cost. Can you get a fridge that filters the water?