Minneapolis has great water, usually. Usually I use a Brita filter, but in Minneapolis, even if pitcher is empty, you can get a delicious glass of water from the tap in Minneapolis city limits. It's cold, clear, and clean. Except in the Spring.
The thaw from Minnesota winters makes the water taste disgusting and smell like fish. It goes away by May, but from mid-March until usually the end of April, Minneapolis tap water is foul. I don't get it. It seems like water recently fallen as snow or ice and melted should be cleaner. It seems that the water should be nasty in August, when the Mississippi river has been used and abused by summer enthusiasts for 3 months.
As such, I have resorted to a behavior I normally oppose: buying 20oz. bottles of Dasani from the vending machine at school. I guess my love for cold clean water trumps my social convictions. And I just thought of this-- in some small way, I am contributing to the lack of accessibility of clean water in our lakes and rivers by buying into the plastic water bottle craze. It's a never-ending cycle of my desires battling my beliefs. A cycle, just like every Spring when the thaw comes and the water tastes like ass.
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