Where does the water we use in our homes come from?

Question

Where does the water we use in our homes come from?

Answer 1

From various source like rain ,underground,river,lake ,through pipe line .But the water cycle is achieved by rain only.

Answer 2

Originally the sky.

Mostly from reservoirs which keep the water that fell from the sky but sometimes from water which fell from the sky, seeped through rocks for millions of years and ended up in lakes.

They then put some of it in bottles and put a "sell by" date on the bottles :-)

Answer 3

Depends where you are from. In rural areas it may come from rain water collected off you house's roof, from a bore or from a stream. If you live in a town or city it will be piped in from the a reservoir of water from a lake or river or may be from desalinated sea water.

Answer 4

In England and Wales, two thirds of drinking water comes from surface water, including reservoirs, lakes and rivers, and the rest from ground waters. The latter come from aquifers, which are underground geological formations that store rainwater. The rainwater seeps through porous strata such as sandstone and chalk. Water companies drill wells or bore holes into aquifers and draw water from them.

Major cities are usually supplied from the larger volume surface waters, whereas ground waters supply smaller populations, although this is not always the case. There are also areas that receive water from a mixture of sources.

Water is treated at water treatment works before flowing through water mains, sometimes over considerable distances, to arrive at your home. Samples are taken at each stage of treatment and distribution along the way, and tested by the water company to make sure that you receive high quality water.

Answer 5

Some places get water from local lakes and/or rivers, others though tap into water tables.  Water tables are underground water sources that tend to be pretty pure.  All the levels of soil and sand above it provide decent filtering.  Recently though run off from sewage systems and other sources such as MTBE have been found to penetrate these systems.  Limits to these sources as well as deeper drilling to more pure water tables are ideas being floated to prevent these tables from heavy contamination.

Answer 6

the big ditch at the bottom of the road

Answer 7

Water evaporates from the seas and rivers and then falls back to earth as rain. This is collected in reservoirs, cleaned, and delivered to your homes via underground pipes.

Answer 8

Mine comes from the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. I live near Boston.

Answer 9

It first fell from the sky free, was filtered and treated by a French owned water company then several other people made use of it before it was recycled and I used it too. Not before it had run through the compulsory water meter that was fitted when I moved into this house, so I can be charged more for keeping clean even though the previous consumers had already also paid for it. People do know we use 'recycled' water in the UK don't they?