Is Florida Tap Water Safe to Drink?

Safe to drink, but what about taste and scale?

Meeting safety standards and being pleasant to live with are two different things. City water here is usually safe, and also usually hard, with chloramine that can leave a faint chemical taste. That is why so many homes still filter and soften even on treated city water.

What can you do about it?

A softener handles the hardness, and catalytic carbon handles the chloramine taste and smell. If you want drinking water taken further, a reverse-osmosis tap is an optional add-on. Six questions tell you what is worth doing and what is not.