Drinking water has cloudy air bubbles and not tasty?

Answer 1

The very least you need to do immediately is to start boiling your drinking, cooking and dish rinse water. The taste may not improve, but the safety of your water supply certainly will. A great tip from Tropical Fish care. Let your water rest, in a large glass container, for at least a week, before drinking. Also, discard the bottom inch of the container water, or use it at the kitchen sink. The fish are sensitive to chemicals and impurities. Tap water can kill them, but that same water if rested, is safe for their aquarium. No explanation why. It must have to do with the fact that, every time you turn on the tap, you are stirring up the pressurized water being released. Natural water has solid materials in it and thus is cloudy, even slightly. Municipal water treatment is to add alum to clear up any cloudiness ( chemical treatment to improve appearance, not taste or quality ). Most likely, the municipal water supply is cracked or broken underground somewhere, introducing impurities and air. Rarely, the water filtration plant is overworked and, even only occasionally, pumping substandard potable water. In a city which I shall not name, at a mid-level management workshop I was conducting, during a free-for-all discussion, every manager insisted the city water supply was SAFE -- high quality control standards. Yet, strangely, each and every one admitted to subscribing to a bottled water supplier for home delivery. You figure it out !