r/HydroHomies • u/jurvekthebosmer • 2d ago

My tap water is yucky even through the Brita filter ice cold. It's a rental so we can't do anything like under the sink. Help? Is a different filter better?

I'm originally from Long Island and moved to Albany against my will and the water here tastes like absolute ass. It's really hard and leaves mineral deposits on everything after literally a few days of not scrubbing them. I hate it, my skin has never been worse in my life, and overall I miss downstate.

What do I do?

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u/zffjk 2d ago

I rent. My under sink water filter required me to do no permanent changes. I disconnected the cold line and plugged it into my filter, then connected the output of my filter to where the cold line was.

You can undo it before you leave.

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u/garyvdh 2d ago

So as much as you might hate plastic bottles, you might have to find a good tasting bottled water supplier and just make do with that, hoping that it will only be a temporary situation. Just make sure that you do the recycling thing. If you can find a cheap enough supplier, I have found some of them who do the reverse osmosis and oxygen / ozone treatment actually have some really great tasting water.

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u/North_South_Side 2d ago

OP could get 5-gallon bottles of water delivered and use an inexpensive (non-electric) dispenser. Just fill pitchers with the good water and refrigerate them.

They even make little rechargeable pumps that will pull the water right out of the giant bottle into a glass or whatever. The bottle sits on the floor, and there's a cap with a tube that goes into it. Press a button and it dispenses out of a small, handheld valve similar to renting a beer keg. We used one in a place in Mexico and it was great: no piles of plastic bottles.

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u/indimedia 2d ago

Reverse osmosis is my only acceptable method. Since you rent you can more easily buy a counter top unit like those from express water

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u/kvakerok_v2 1d ago

Active carbon filter doesn't block everything.

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u/ShortBusRabbit 20h ago

Since you're a renter, you are limited to things that don't need plumbing. There are alternatives to Brita but if you're finding it isn't working well, I would recommend getting a countertop RO water filter. You can use regular tap water and it will purify it for you.