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We are lucky to have some fine tap water from a local lake called stumpy meadows. It's a snow fed lake. Once the water is treated though it does have some chlorine flavor. I don't drink tap water-we have a filtration system(charcoal, I think), hooked to our refrigerator water dispenser. The only problem is when the electricity goes out we lose the filtration. We are homeowners & we pay just under $50. for our municipal service if we haven't gone over the set usage amount limits. We also have a real 'wishing well' in the front yard with an electric pump to bring up water. We have a very high water table & water can be tapped at about 15 feet. We are planning on hooking up a hand pump to the system in case we ever need it.