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re: Shreveport, LA has the worst tap water I’ve ever tasted.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:13 pm to grizzlylongcut
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:13 pm to grizzlylongcut
Visited lots of places and always try the tapwater. Shreveport's doesn't stand out. The one that still does is the water in Naples, Fl. Forget trying to bathe in it, nasty.
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Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:46 pm to grizzlylongcut
We went in 2017 and it legit tasted like mud water.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:53 pm to jeffsdad
quote:ordering fountain drinks is boucoup trashy
and ordered a coke,
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:58 pm to SuperSaint
I don’t think they had canned or bottled cokes.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 8:29 pm to grizzlylongcut
I never had any problems with water in most North Louisiana towns. Not Farmerville, Monroe or Ruston, God forbid. I do remember Bastrop having nasty water. IP was running two mills during the period I had occasion to stay there. Just one of the reasons I didn't like going to that grandmother's house every Christmas Day. The new toys, we weren't playing with, were the main reason my brothers and I hated that yearly trip.. 
This post was edited on 1/19/25 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 1/19/25 at 8:34 pm to grizzlylongcut
It come out of cross lake, they filter out the bream, duckweed and salvinia and that’s it.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 8:44 pm to Salmon
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It’s not normally like this.
The hell it isn’t!!!!!
I grew up in Shreveport and I guess since it was all I drank I never noticed. I’ve lived in either Haughton or North Bossier for the last 32 years. Now anytime I’m in Shreveport and drink the water I can taste it. OP is spot on. Tastes like pond water. Just taste dirty. Haughton water tastes like chlorine but I guess that’s marginally better than pond water.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 8:49 pm to schwartzy
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Does Shreveport bring anything to the table?
Best road system in the state. Traffic moves very efficiently.
It has a functioning criminal justice system.
Low cost of living.
Excellent health care system.
Great looking women, unless women of Italian heritage with big thighs from playing cabbageball are more your style.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 8:50 pm to grizzlylongcut
Growing up there, we always made fun of how gross Bossier water is… did it reverse now?
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:43 pm to grizzlylongcut
Where does Shreveport get their water from the Red River or the Caddo Aquifer?
I have seen some Walmart brand gallon size bottles of water list Shreveport and the Caddo Aquifer as the source.
I have seen some Walmart brand gallon size bottles of water list Shreveport and the Caddo Aquifer as the source.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:53 pm to grizzlylongcut
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Shreveport, LA has the worst tap water I’ve ever tasted.
Have you ever toured their water treatment plant museum?
That was in operational until the 1980's
quote:
it exhibits in situ a century's worth of water pumping equipment, and was the nation's last steam-powered waterworks facility when it was shut down in 1980.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:54 pm to Tarps99
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I have seen some Walmart brand gallon size bottles of water list Shreveport and the Caddo Aquifer as the source.
Shreveport gets it water from Cross Lake. I don't believe there is a Caddo Aquafer. What brand of water?
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:54 pm to grizzlylongcut
Manchac
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:55 pm to La Place Mike
The Walmart store brand.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:56 pm to Tarps99
No such thing as the Caddo Auqafer. Walmart be fibbin.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:02 pm to La Place Mike
They might be.
I should have done my research from LA DNR:
I should have done my research from LA DNR:
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Although the City of Shreveport and other parts of Caddo Parish rely almost exclusively on surface water sources such as Cross Lake or Caddo Lake, residents in south Caddo traditionally have relied more upon groundwater sources, primarily the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer, and to a much lesser extent the Upland Terrace aquifer and Red River Alluvial aquifer.
The Carrizo-Wilcox is by far the most important aquifer locally, both for general use and as a source of drinking water. According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Use in Louisiana, 2010 report, the Carrizo-Wilcox supplied Caddo Parish with about 6.8 million gallons of water a day, compared to the less than 600,000 gallons a day drawn from the Upland Terrace aquifer. The Red River Alluvial aquifer along Caddo Parish’s eastern boundary supplied about 3 million gallons of water a day, but was primarily used for agricultural purposes, not as a main source of drinking water.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:12 pm to ReedRothchild
Long Beach MS water did once give me painful Shigella dysentery. The tap water smelled like rotten eggs.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:13 pm to La Place Mike
Caddo Aquifer is in Arkansas, near the towns of Glenwood and Norman
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:31 pm to tarzana
So it could have been trucked in and bottled in Shreveport, plus it was a few years ago when I saw it.
But anyway, get a load this. I just looked at a gallon of distilled water I bought today from Wally World. Is from S’port?
Nope, it is from Jacksidisouh, Mississippi Municipal Water:
But anyway, get a load this. I just looked at a gallon of distilled water I bought today from Wally World. Is from S’port?
Nope, it is from Jacksidisouh, Mississippi Municipal Water:
This post was edited on 1/19/25 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 1/20/25 at 12:03 am to jeffsdad
quote:Our good is an awesome good.
Never got a drink I could drink but the good was great.
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