CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

This is a question that has been bothering me for quite sometime now, and only came up today at chruch when i realized when i filled my water bottle up with the water fountain water there, and the water was yellow. At my school the water is always an unearthy color... actually thats just my problem... it HAS an earthly color... from lemon yellow, to chocolate black! I was wondereing if i am the only CAA member out there who has strange water at his school?

ours tastes warm... but it's clean

my school's water (costa mesa)is pure white and it has a funny taste. i don't drink my school's water anymore.

As a rule of thumb, I NEVER drink water from a public fountain. (Sinks and faucets are worst) You're better off bringing your own water to school. Soda fountains are okay.

good idea

My school water's clean. But I'm homeschooled.

that... makes a lot of sense

My school's water seems fine to me. It's probably just that the water in that area isn't so great.

Well I live at my school (college) so I don't have a choice unless I wanna buy stock in bottled water, lol. Luckily its good and clean ^^

My high school had clear water that tasted way too much of chlorine. That's how the whole city was, though.
The only time I had brownish water was when i was hiking and we had to purify water with those iodine tablets. Then we added Country Time lemonade mix so it tasted good anyway. Plus, we oculdn't see how gross the water looked, with that orange tint and floating things in it. ^_^

Brown water from the faucets would worry me, though...

Hmm, it's been a while since I've had a sip of water from a school fountain, but I don't remember drinking anything that was intolerable.

At my first college it tasted chalky. At the second one, closer to home, it just tastes like tap water.

I usually drink filtered or bottled water.

Bottled water is not neccesarily any cleaner or purer than regular tap water. In fact some bottled water is probably worse than tap water due to more lax regulations. From what I've read brands like Aquafina are just derived from municipal tap water. So basically from what I understand they are just selling you what you get from your facet for a buck.

You can read about the NRDC's report here.
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp

My mom is a human canary with chemical sensitivities. She buys ok water and avoids some brands.

ha ha ha! this sound like a topic for crazy conspirasy game!

In my university, the water quality can be exceptionally nasty, depending on the seasons. For example, during summer, much maintenance goes on and so I would never drink the water then <--- icky brown >_<

Now in my apartment (which is part of the university as well), we have too much calcium as well. So, in general, I rarely drink the water on campus, unless I have no choice and am terribly dehydrated. I bring my own water or buy something like Gatorade.

Well, if sickly white is a NORMAL water colour, then the water is great...and there's like...only one fountain that even works in my school, so you have to be really desperate. There are vending machines all over though ~ and they're always full of water (although the Ginger Ale has been replaced by Diet Coke and the label hasn't changed...I fell for that one TWICE)

It depends on what fountain you use at our school. The gym's are by far the cleanest, and coldest, but it still has a slight yellow tint to it. So I usually bring my own.

Lehn wrote:a slight yellow tint

O_o

I've heard that bacteria growth is insanely high on pubilc water fountains....so I tend to stay away from them as much as is humanly possible.

i never drank my schools water...a few years ago they found ekoli or whatever that stuff is in the schools water system so we had like a week off

At my school the science rooms are the worst. All that comes out of the taps is yellow water that smells terrible! Alot of kids in my class are convinced that it is urin reincarnate. I think... thats disgusting.

The city water is terrible here and my dad doesn't want us drinking it. The water at one of the private schools I went to was from the well and it smelled like rotten eggs. *puke*

I tried never to drink it, but it didn't always work.

i dont often drink from school fountains

=/ The water that spouts from my school's drinking fountains is either a milky white or a milky white-blue, and my friend got mono from drinking from one (though I think that's more the fountain's fault than the water's) so I tend to stay away from them as much as I can.

Kokoro Daisuke wrote:my friend got mono from drinking from one

I know someone who got mono...he was out of class for like, half a year...

>"< Hmmm.... the water at my school sometimes is too cold or warm... but i haven't had a problem so far with taste. Unlike at my elementary school! It tasted kinda like dirt.... >.< Eeeww... *shudder*

These are some weird stories... I've never had a color problme myself

wow... yellow, blue, white, brown, thats gross. I've been fortunate, I guess, to not ever have any water issues at school... though I'm homeschooled now anyway.