First, pour a glass of your tap water and hold it up to the light. If it looks crystal clear, you’re already winning, but don’t pop the champagne yet. If you see floaties that look like tiny, sad bits of snow, that’s usually just calcium, which is harmless but feels like drinking crushed-up chalk. However, if your water has a greenish tint, you might have copper pipes dissolving into your morning coffee—which sounds fancy but is actually a plumbing nightmare.
A friend once showed me water that looked like weak iced tea. I told her she had a “shady” water supply. Turns out, it was tannins from decomposing leaves in the groundwater. The good news? It’s safe. The bad news? Your water is basically leaf tea without the caffeine.
