[UncleWede]

There's well water, and then there's well water.

My water comes out of a well, but about 150 properties share in the well contents. Cali forced us to start putting that hazardous waste into the system.

I have a whole-house filtration system as the first stop for any water from the lateral. It's pretty good, but I grew up drinking Oxnard water out of the hose, so get off my lawn.

We had septic until Cali also mandated we get off that. Was something like $30k/connection but county supervisors found a way for our neighborhood to pay via tax assessment for the next 100 years or something. Other underprivileged areas got slammed with that 30K bill, some got foreclosed.

Our cabin is septic, and also shared well water. That one we keep a Brita for any drinking water needs. Rid-X goes down the toilet when I pump the water out of the pipes to close it up in the winter.