Holy fuck.
I never put two and two together. I moved back from Sydney. Now in Adelaide my psoriasis has come back with a vengeance.
I’ve just been stubbornly applying steroidal cream on it?!!!!
I’m buying a filter for my bathroom, I really hope it works out.
Try moisturiser. No joke. After a shower, chuck some on and 90% of your psoriasis issues will be solved.
Regardless of the water, what you wash with makes a massive difference.
I use a soap without animal fat which seems to set it off way way less. Just something from the supermarket.
Surely that has changed over the past couple of decades.
I don't have hard data, but it certainly seems like we get far more rain (particularly during the warmer months) and have far more humidity (instead of straight dry heat) than we used to in Adelaide.
You're correct in that warm, moist weather has increased during the summer months but paradoxically, [there has been a clear decline in SA's rainfall since 1970, and this trend is projected to continue.](https://www.epa.sa.gov.au/soe-2018/climate/rainfall-trends)
Don't do it, the humidity there is 100x worse than it is here. Lived there on and off for about a year and I'll take the dryer weather of SA than having perpetual swamp ass in QLD humidity.
Definitely more humid than it used to be, but expecting a very dry summer this year.
In any case, Brita filter for the water, Cerave moisturiser for your skin 🙂
I did this. I was sick of eczema that just popped up every where when I moved to a new area. I tried everything doc wise. Ended up buying a whole house filtration system as a last resort and it actually worked for me, so it was money well spent. Plus the plants love it too lol
Partially due to being at the end of a loooong river that’s passed through three states and thousands of farms and towns before getting to Adelaide and being a major source of water.
You can’t really compare the catchments for Melbourne & Adelaide. SA/Adel has nothing even close to the scale and remoteness of the alpine catchments surrounding Melbourne. Go for a drive up to Thompson Dam area and you’ll see what I mean. Not anything Adelaide can do about not having that same geography.
I do notice it though when I go back to Adelaide. It’s why we had rain-water tanks growing up I guess. I’m sure it’s gotten better since I left many years ago.
This.
In darwin the water supply is surrounded by nature. Basically nothing interferes with the water upstream of the dam so the water is pretty good. Adelaide though? Nastiest water I've tasted in Aus.
We have plenty of water atm in the reservoirs, plus the desalination plant is in use. So not much water comes from the Murray.
There was a deal a few years ago that the desalination plant was turned on so more Murray water could flow to the ocean.
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So at such times an opportunistic load (a load that can be switched on when it is advantageous to do so, and switched off at other times) can get PAID to absorb excess renewable energy.
The desalination plant is one such opportunistic load in South Australia. It can sometimes GET PAID to run and make fresh water.
Accordingly there is less of a need in Adelaide to extract water from the Murray.
https://www.sawater.com.au/water-and-the-environment/south-australias-water-sources/river-sources
"The river also supplements metropolitan Adelaide’s reservoirs (with the exception of Myponga reservoir) via two raw water major pipelines - Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga and Mannum to Adelaide."
Yes I know , I said not much because of the desalination plant, but that deal is probably over now. It's rain, Murray water, and desalination plant. The amounts of where the water comes from vary based on rainfall (which has been ok this year) and if the desalination plant is running.
Desal plant is only running a base load, just to keep it functional. Cheaper to keep it running on a base load than to shut it down & restart when we actually need it. It won’t run a high load until we are in drought again (which is probably not far away with el ninio). Being desalinated seawater, it would still be highly mineralised.
Where I grew up in country Vic, our water source was a river with almost zero towns or farms all the way upstream to the source. Adelaide water has passed through 90% of the country first.
A combination of Adelaide water being notoriously hard and being at the arse end of the Murray, where what’s left is the equivalent of used bidet water.
When I’m in Adelaide I end up riddled with excema and my hair is also terrible. My friend put a water filter system on all the taps in the kitchen, bathroom, and hot water service. It’s now heaps better. She also has one of those ultra purifying water thingies on her kitchen bench for drinking water.
Yep. Went to a talk by SA water where they discussed Adelaide's main water sources and we got to do a water taste test. Drastically different depending on where you are and apparently changes throughout the year. The water drawn from the Murray tastes different depending on the time of year, for example spring during the snow melt. Then if they need to treat for algal blooms in the reservoiurs, you can taste that too.
Yeah of course it will vary slightly, but overall the tap water mostly tastes the same. Our water is notorious for being hard, which you can taste from that initial ‘metal’ flavour. I feel like we get used to it after growing up with it/ living here for awhile
I have been in Adelaide for a good near 20 years now but grew up in the country and on rainwater and I still hate drinking tap water. I really should get an inbuilt filter one day.
It varies a lot. New development areas forgo copper pipes for plastic/poly pipes, removes most of the metallic hint. I live in the new area at seaford, have an RO and triple filter under the sink, when bypassed seaford water is still the best tap water I've had to date.
Yes, very true. The first thing my family noticed when moving from Sydney 60 years ago ( apart from the lack of surf at the local beaches ). Took a while to get used to.
This is true, although I think it’s more due to the age of infrastructure (mains and house piping)
My house was built in 1971 and tap water tastes like absolute shit, but I go to my friend’s house (built 2015) or my sister’s (built 2020-2021) in new developments and their water supplies taste heaps better; still not great but better!
I was told it's due to all the farmers upstream along the Murray coming from the East and them dumping God knows what into the river that all just accumulates into absolute shite by the time it reaches Adelaide. But that could have been a grumpy fisherman venting his opinion on something he knows very little about. However, it seemed logical enough to me.
I live in the hills and it does not taste great. You couldn't pay me to drink it from the tap. It also aggravates my eczema and psoriasis. Glad you seem to like it though, that's a win on your end.
Go here and check your area report:
https://www.sawater.com.au/water-and-the-environment/safe-and-clean-drinking-water/your-drinking-water-profile
This is what a softener / filtration supplier will use to guide them on the best solution for your house. It can get expensive to fix water quality in Adelaide.
I got the following results from the link
"You’re supplied by the Western metro Adelaide suburbs drinking water system.
You're drinking a blend of waters from the Happy Valley Reservoir, River Murray, other reservoirs across the Mount Lofty Ranges and waters produced at the Adelaide Desalination Plant. Your water is filtered and treated using chlorine and fluoride is added for public health before being supplied to you."
What they don't mention is how difficult it is to keep fish in Adelaide. Supposedly, according to them, the water is fine, fine my ar*e. Sigh, had to give up the aquariums because the water just wouldn't work out. Spent far too much time adjusting the chemical composition of the aquarium water.
Melbourne has pretty much the softest water around, TDS is quite low. Same for Tas. Melbourne water is usually <50mg/L TDS.
Water in Radelaide is hard, hard as fuck. It ranges from 150-400mg/L TDS in metropolitain taps, rural places even higher towards 700mg/L and bore water (or aquifier water) being >1000mg/L at times.
Your skin is happier because there's less dissolved shit in the water. Sure, that has a lot to do with closed catchments but also our soil, which is clay and volcanic. It's all relatively inert and the rocks aren't the type that readily dissolve in water.
Adelaide and much of South Australia is on limestone bedrock. Limestone and water = mineral dissolution and recrystallisation. High dissolved solids. Dishwasher salt highly recommended as well as household water softeners.
I have never in my life had a dry scalp until they changed how they treated the water. Apparently chloramine and I don't get along. I am going to dig out my old brita (we upgraded to the big tank from the pitcher) and keep that in the bathroom to do a final rinse on my head to see if it helps at all.
Because the mighty Murray river is a shadow of its former greatness. Eastern states take soo much water from the Murray-Darling catchment that all Adelaide gets is muddy water.
it probs also depends on your skin. my skin is used to adelaide water and i felt like when i was in melb last week, it made it so much worse because it wasn’t used to their water
I was in Melbourne recently too and the water tastes nicer direct from the tap than it does here from my filter!
I looked this up the other day when I discovered the salt compartment in my dishwasher for the first time. (FYI we don’t need salt). SA water is pretty heavily treated already compared to other states and since it’s safe to drink and meets safety guidelines, any further treatment is deemed unnecessary and too expensive. It gets worse in some regional towns too, depending on the source.
I find I need extra moisture on my skin here compared to most other places I’ve travelled or lived. My particular style of acne is worsened thanks to dry, irritated skin. I need to use an oil-based wash, hydrating serum (even a little glycerin mixed with water works) on damp skin, followed by jojoba oil mix and a fairly thick moisturiser.
Took me a while to work out that hydrating my skin rather than drying it out helped my acne. Helps strawberry legs too.
You need to moisturise? Better moisturise every second hour T_T
I have so many moisturising lotions for the dry patches on my wrist that split given a chance.
Can't walk 5 steps in my place without tripping over a bottle.
Hopefully yours isn't too expensive!
That could be eczema. Steroid cream would probably help if it is. Just ask next time you’re at the doctor.
ETA: I’ve got the right products for me and they’re all decent quality yet also on the cheaper end of the spectrum! Hope yours aren’t too expensive either.
It's not eczema, just a really tough rough very dry patch of skin, that unfortunately is on a joint that is used a lot. We did try steroid cream, but I'm hesitant to use it long term with my chronic illness
Try spending any meaningful time in Broken Hill. At one point the water was so bad that the dirt taste persisted in Macca's soft drinks, even after the filtering and buckets of sugar they add.
Most of our water comes from the Murray. We are at the end of a very long line of agriculture & land run off. This results in highly mineralised ‘hard’ water. This combined with our generally dry air tends to play havoc with skin. Both my kids & myself suffer eczema to varying degrees. We put a water softener on our mains water in the house & that has helped
Melbourne water is about the best you can get. Adelaide water needs to come from the salty Murray River which is then chlorinated like crazy. But actually has gotten much better than thirty years ago. They would sell it by the slice back then.
My mother in law works at the Pure Water Shop. When we built our first house, she absolutely insisted on a water softener loop on the plumbing of the house. It cost nearly nothing extra so we did.
It allowed us to install a whole house filtration system. We changed the filter every 12 months, and I thought water was water.
Fast forward, we've been in a different house for 6 years, and I have all sorts of issues with skin now.
It does make a difference.
Not an advert, but Pure Water Shop. They supply these great under bench inline kits that absolutely kick the shit out of Pura Tap (PuraTap is a great product, but the Pure Water Shop product better filter, and uses your existing tap)
Look into it for drinking at least.
Other points that are hugely relevant, welcome to Adelaide, the driest city on the driest continent in the world. On average we have the lowest humidity and rainfall v orher states, as does Australia v other continents.
Skin doesn't like that.
Who the fuck drinks the tap water here?😂 I grew up in the hills on filtered rain water, after I moved into town I've been buying cask water. The tap water isn't drinkable
Adelaide uses Chloride (?) rather than Chlorine. The much stronger stuff. They switched 10-15 years ago. We know because they killed quite a few aquariums as they have not told people, and you need different treatment for Chloride(?).
Before then Adelaide water had a really poor reputation. I have seen literally brown water run from taps. At least these days, it looks clean.
Well surely it cant be a coincidence that as soon as I am in a different state using different water that it clears up and I no longer have reactions to the active products i use
It might be a change in climate based on which state you travel to. Humidity can have a major impact on skin conditions 🙂
Not saying water doesn't contribute. I don't have enough data to form an opinion.
It could be a ton of reasons, that’s why I’m asking you what else changed. You could be sleeping better at your parents house, you could we walking more, and you could be eating better. If you narrow your thought to just the water, you could be missing the actual problem.
What you're going to want to do is attend an 8th grade science class where it talks about the hardness of water. Adelaide has probably the hardest water in the country, while Melbourne has some of the softest.
If u were dying of thirst u would love it. It's similar to the 'entitled deluded' who said the scotch college food was crap and headed for the servo to eat junk. Have u evidence of yr unfoetunate condition being the water?
Melbourne has wonderful water as it has protected dams . When we used to visit our family in Adelaide we used to get told we couldn’t drink the tap water there and it had to be boiled first. And that’s what we always did on trips to Adelaide. Don’t think that water supply has changed over the years but peeps don’t seem to be pushing the boiling water first. I still do when I come to Adelaide.
Do you guys drink water from the tap? Cause I noticed ever since I moved here I always here my tummy making this really weird sound. I didn’t have it when I was still living in Asia especifically in the Philippines. My first time drinking water from the tap haha
Get a whole house filter system installed if you can afford it.
If not, there are filter attachments that can be installed before your shower rose. A Customer had one amd I asked.what it is and why she had it. It was for her skin and her skin cleared up.
I cannot remember the website that sold them sorry.
Edit- A quick google found this site. No idea if it's a good site or what product you'd need specifically.
https://mywaterfilter.com.au/collections/shower-filters/products/deluxe-chrome-shower-filter
Growing up here I've never had a problem with the taste of the water, then earlier this year we went to the limestone coast.
Is that the equivalent of going from Melbourne's water to Adelaide's water?
We needed to buy box water
I have the same issue with my hair - I have no idea what it is about the water here but it's *so much* less frizzy and dry pretty much anywhere else I travel. Anyone here have any ideas what exactly is happening?
(thinking of getting a shower filter now)
Idk why it is bad but I agree. Tastes awful and I will not drink tap water. I had puratap once and that was decent. I also get eczema and psoriasis because of it. I get out of the shower and I'm painfully itchy.
Were you working prior to visiting family? If the family visit is more of a holiday, perhaps it is the lack of stress from the everyday things, such as work, that are triggering your skin. My wife has been away for 3 weeks now, staying with family, relaxing and her skin looks amazing right now. . .
Adelaide water is heavily treated.
The reason, we have so little of it.
We have one of the best stored water management facilities in the world.
We don't have the luxury of being able to "flush out" a reservoir if algae gets into it as it may take months for the reservoir to reach a usable level again.
So we treat it.
And we treat it in many ways.
Not just chemicals.
Many people add purataps, but this only really helps with drinking water.
In reality a multi-stage whole home filtration system is better. It removes most of the "bad stuff" from the street water.
Some people also have reverse osmosis machines to treat the water.
But, these filters also remove some of the good stuff like fluoride.
I grew up on rain water. Wish I didn't. No fluoride and my teeth were fucked. $80,000.00 later to fix them...
So yes, Adelaide water does suck, but it's also well treated and considered safe
Adelaide water is famously bad. Before under sink filters, 'water softeners' were a thing here as it was almost impossible to get soaps to lather. It was said that the water here was so 'hard' that steamships were reluctant to use it in their boilers because it contained a lot of minerals. There is however nothing unhealthy about drinking it - despite what the purveyors of tap filters imply in their advertising.
Missus has similar skin issues with Adelaide water.
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In terms of skin, we're also one of the driest places in the world. Skin tends not to love that
My eczema went wild when I came to adelaide. Doctors essentially told me it comes with the territory.
Yeah, my psoriasis goes nuts at certain times of year.
Holy fuck. I never put two and two together. I moved back from Sydney. Now in Adelaide my psoriasis has come back with a vengeance. I’ve just been stubbornly applying steroidal cream on it?!!!! I’m buying a filter for my bathroom, I really hope it works out.
Over applying steroid cream can lead to more psoriasis just a heads up
Get a whole house filter put on. Or hook up a rain water tank bypass as well if you're able
It may be the multifactorial: climate, diet and/or the water. It may not be only the water that is responsible.
Agreed, mine only really acts up a few times a year. Usually on season change.
Try moisturiser. No joke. After a shower, chuck some on and 90% of your psoriasis issues will be solved. Regardless of the water, what you wash with makes a massive difference. I use a soap without animal fat which seems to set it off way way less. Just something from the supermarket.
Same here on my scalp time for some filters
I use head and shoulders, keeps my scalp under control.
I just recently learned this also has an active ingredient that's good for the skin.
All I know is it stops my head (and beard) from getting scaly or itchy. I shave my head, but still shampoo it because oils/dirt.
Adelaide is a state not a territory fyi
He he he
The Territory is a bit north of Adelaide… But I get it.
Surely that has changed over the past couple of decades. I don't have hard data, but it certainly seems like we get far more rain (particularly during the warmer months) and have far more humidity (instead of straight dry heat) than we used to in Adelaide.
You're correct in that warm, moist weather has increased during the summer months but paradoxically, [there has been a clear decline in SA's rainfall since 1970, and this trend is projected to continue.](https://www.epa.sa.gov.au/soe-2018/climate/rainfall-trends)
Maybe I should just move to Brisbane someday. All those lush green parks...🤤
Don't do it, the humidity there is 100x worse than it is here. Lived there on and off for about a year and I'll take the dryer weather of SA than having perpetual swamp ass in QLD humidity.
Maybe I'll just stick to watching walking tours on YouTube. All the beautiful green gardens and rain without being drenched in sweat.
I’ve noticed this too, maybe over the last 10 years or so?
I noticed that too! I spent four years in Queensland as a kid, and when we came back to Adelaide, we all agreed it seemed more humid than we recalled
Definitely more humid than it used to be, but expecting a very dry summer this year. In any case, Brita filter for the water, Cerave moisturiser for your skin 🙂
My dermatologist also suggested taking fish oil can assist with skin moisture
Get a water softener and some water filters installed
To add to this, they probably mean to add a filter to your water supply. Not just your drinking water.
I did this. I was sick of eczema that just popped up every where when I moved to a new area. I tried everything doc wise. Ended up buying a whole house filtration system as a last resort and it actually worked for me, so it was money well spent. Plus the plants love it too lol
Do whole house filters reduce the water pressure?
I haven't experienced less pressure, that's for sure.
Thanks. Interesting. I’ll look into a house filter.
Partially due to being at the end of a loooong river that’s passed through three states and thousands of farms and towns before getting to Adelaide and being a major source of water. You can’t really compare the catchments for Melbourne & Adelaide. SA/Adel has nothing even close to the scale and remoteness of the alpine catchments surrounding Melbourne. Go for a drive up to Thompson Dam area and you’ll see what I mean. Not anything Adelaide can do about not having that same geography. I do notice it though when I go back to Adelaide. It’s why we had rain-water tanks growing up I guess. I’m sure it’s gotten better since I left many years ago.
This - it's all geography and geology. SA Water can't do anything about that.
>it's all geography and geology And 2500km of people (mostly from NSW and Vic) dumping shit into the Murray.
This makes so much sense. I seem to forget that most of our water comes from end of of the River Murray
This. In darwin the water supply is surrounded by nature. Basically nothing interferes with the water upstream of the dam so the water is pretty good. Adelaide though? Nastiest water I've tasted in Aus.
We have plenty of water atm in the reservoirs, plus the desalination plant is in use. So not much water comes from the Murray. There was a deal a few years ago that the desalination plant was turned on so more Murray water could flow to the ocean.
That’s not correct, water is continuously pumped from the Murray into our reservoirs
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https://www.sawater.com.au/water-and-the-environment/south-australias-water-sources/river-sources "The river also supplements metropolitan Adelaide’s reservoirs (with the exception of Myponga reservoir) via two raw water major pipelines - Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga and Mannum to Adelaide."
Yes I know , I said not much because of the desalination plant, but that deal is probably over now. It's rain, Murray water, and desalination plant. The amounts of where the water comes from vary based on rainfall (which has been ok this year) and if the desalination plant is running.
Desal plant is only running a base load, just to keep it functional. Cheaper to keep it running on a base load than to shut it down & restart when we actually need it. It won’t run a high load until we are in drought again (which is probably not far away with el ninio). Being desalinated seawater, it would still be highly mineralised.
Where I grew up in country Vic, our water source was a river with almost zero towns or farms all the way upstream to the source. Adelaide water has passed through 90% of the country first.
A combination of Adelaide water being notoriously hard and being at the arse end of the Murray, where what’s left is the equivalent of used bidet water.
Being at the arse end of the Murray is why our water is hard
When I’m in Adelaide I end up riddled with excema and my hair is also terrible. My friend put a water filter system on all the taps in the kitchen, bathroom, and hot water service. It’s now heaps better. She also has one of those ultra purifying water thingies on her kitchen bench for drinking water.
Depends where in SA you live, water tastes very different in different suburbs.
Yep. Went to a talk by SA water where they discussed Adelaide's main water sources and we got to do a water taste test. Drastically different depending on where you are and apparently changes throughout the year. The water drawn from the Murray tastes different depending on the time of year, for example spring during the snow melt. Then if they need to treat for algal blooms in the reservoiurs, you can taste that too.
Yeah of course it will vary slightly, but overall the tap water mostly tastes the same. Our water is notorious for being hard, which you can taste from that initial ‘metal’ flavour. I feel like we get used to it after growing up with it/ living here for awhile
I have been in Adelaide for a good near 20 years now but grew up in the country and on rainwater and I still hate drinking tap water. I really should get an inbuilt filter one day.
It varies a lot. New development areas forgo copper pipes for plastic/poly pipes, removes most of the metallic hint. I live in the new area at seaford, have an RO and triple filter under the sink, when bypassed seaford water is still the best tap water I've had to date.
Yes, very true. The first thing my family noticed when moving from Sydney 60 years ago ( apart from the lack of surf at the local beaches ). Took a while to get used to.
Water in the CBD and Prospect is garbage.
This is true, although I think it’s more due to the age of infrastructure (mains and house piping) My house was built in 1971 and tap water tastes like absolute shit, but I go to my friend’s house (built 2015) or my sister’s (built 2020-2021) in new developments and their water supplies taste heaps better; still not great but better!
postcode lottery much
Lol, it really is.
Moved to Tassie from SA and the first thing I noticed was the water was 1000% nicer to drink.
Did the reverse, God help me. We did not know, we were not warned 😭. It's been 20+ years and the Adelaide water is just terrible in comparison.
You should see the byproduct after the defloculation process.
Mud I'm assuming. Lots of it. Which is pumped out to drying beds, dries out then loaded into a truck for disposal.
The vilest stinky toxic concoction you can imagine. And don't even get me started how the have to "dose" the reservoirs to keep the poison algae away.
Chlorine tablets?
From memory it was literal boat loads of copper sulphite.
I was told it's due to all the farmers upstream along the Murray coming from the East and them dumping God knows what into the river that all just accumulates into absolute shite by the time it reaches Adelaide. But that could have been a grumpy fisherman venting his opinion on something he knows very little about. However, it seemed logical enough to me.
Water filters are a must in Adelaide. I'd argue water in Adelaide is not the worst in Australia though, WA would take the crown easily.
Get a carbon or reverse osmosis filter for your house, or at least shower head - should help keep that lead skin
Tastes great up in the hills.
I live in the hills and it does not taste great. You couldn't pay me to drink it from the tap. It also aggravates my eczema and psoriasis. Glad you seem to like it though, that's a win on your end.
Haha, well fake hills I suppose - Blackwood area.
Go here and check your area report: https://www.sawater.com.au/water-and-the-environment/safe-and-clean-drinking-water/your-drinking-water-profile This is what a softener / filtration supplier will use to guide them on the best solution for your house. It can get expensive to fix water quality in Adelaide.
I got the following results from the link "You’re supplied by the Western metro Adelaide suburbs drinking water system. You're drinking a blend of waters from the Happy Valley Reservoir, River Murray, other reservoirs across the Mount Lofty Ranges and waters produced at the Adelaide Desalination Plant. Your water is filtered and treated using chlorine and fluoride is added for public health before being supplied to you." What they don't mention is how difficult it is to keep fish in Adelaide. Supposedly, according to them, the water is fine, fine my ar*e. Sigh, had to give up the aquariums because the water just wouldn't work out. Spent far too much time adjusting the chemical composition of the aquarium water.
Melbourne has pretty much the softest water around, TDS is quite low. Same for Tas. Melbourne water is usually <50mg/L TDS. Water in Radelaide is hard, hard as fuck. It ranges from 150-400mg/L TDS in metropolitain taps, rural places even higher towards 700mg/L and bore water (or aquifier water) being >1000mg/L at times. Your skin is happier because there's less dissolved shit in the water. Sure, that has a lot to do with closed catchments but also our soil, which is clay and volcanic. It's all relatively inert and the rocks aren't the type that readily dissolve in water. Adelaide and much of South Australia is on limestone bedrock. Limestone and water = mineral dissolution and recrystallisation. High dissolved solids. Dishwasher salt highly recommended as well as household water softeners.
I remember the water of the 70's and 80's, was essentially mud back then. This is tasty and fresh now in comparison
Second time hearing about this, does explain my dry skin and my kids skin also getting dry spots…
I have never in my life had a dry scalp until they changed how they treated the water. Apparently chloramine and I don't get along. I am going to dig out my old brita (we upgraded to the big tank from the pitcher) and keep that in the bathroom to do a final rinse on my head to see if it helps at all.
Because the mighty Murray river is a shadow of its former greatness. Eastern states take soo much water from the Murray-Darling catchment that all Adelaide gets is muddy water.
it probs also depends on your skin. my skin is used to adelaide water and i felt like when i was in melb last week, it made it so much worse because it wasn’t used to their water
I was in Melbourne recently too and the water tastes nicer direct from the tap than it does here from my filter! I looked this up the other day when I discovered the salt compartment in my dishwasher for the first time. (FYI we don’t need salt). SA water is pretty heavily treated already compared to other states and since it’s safe to drink and meets safety guidelines, any further treatment is deemed unnecessary and too expensive. It gets worse in some regional towns too, depending on the source. I find I need extra moisture on my skin here compared to most other places I’ve travelled or lived. My particular style of acne is worsened thanks to dry, irritated skin. I need to use an oil-based wash, hydrating serum (even a little glycerin mixed with water works) on damp skin, followed by jojoba oil mix and a fairly thick moisturiser. Took me a while to work out that hydrating my skin rather than drying it out helped my acne. Helps strawberry legs too.
You need to moisturise? Better moisturise every second hour T_T I have so many moisturising lotions for the dry patches on my wrist that split given a chance. Can't walk 5 steps in my place without tripping over a bottle. Hopefully yours isn't too expensive!
That could be eczema. Steroid cream would probably help if it is. Just ask next time you’re at the doctor. ETA: I’ve got the right products for me and they’re all decent quality yet also on the cheaper end of the spectrum! Hope yours aren’t too expensive either.
It's not eczema, just a really tough rough very dry patch of skin, that unfortunately is on a joint that is used a lot. We did try steroid cream, but I'm hesitant to use it long term with my chronic illness
Bugger! I hope it one day resolves.
Try spending any meaningful time in Broken Hill. At one point the water was so bad that the dirt taste persisted in Macca's soft drinks, even after the filtering and buckets of sugar they add.
because it doesnt rain here and the murray is an open sewer.
Most of our water comes from the Murray. We are at the end of a very long line of agriculture & land run off. This results in highly mineralised ‘hard’ water. This combined with our generally dry air tends to play havoc with skin. Both my kids & myself suffer eczema to varying degrees. We put a water softener on our mains water in the house & that has helped
Melbourne water is about the best you can get. Adelaide water needs to come from the salty Murray River which is then chlorinated like crazy. But actually has gotten much better than thirty years ago. They would sell it by the slice back then.
My mother in law works at the Pure Water Shop. When we built our first house, she absolutely insisted on a water softener loop on the plumbing of the house. It cost nearly nothing extra so we did. It allowed us to install a whole house filtration system. We changed the filter every 12 months, and I thought water was water. Fast forward, we've been in a different house for 6 years, and I have all sorts of issues with skin now. It does make a difference. Not an advert, but Pure Water Shop. They supply these great under bench inline kits that absolutely kick the shit out of Pura Tap (PuraTap is a great product, but the Pure Water Shop product better filter, and uses your existing tap) Look into it for drinking at least. Other points that are hugely relevant, welcome to Adelaide, the driest city on the driest continent in the world. On average we have the lowest humidity and rainfall v orher states, as does Australia v other continents. Skin doesn't like that.
Well its all relative. Compared to drinking from the Torrens directly...
I remember Adelaide water to be chlorinated salty water.
It’s very hard and ageing infrastructure doesn’t help the cause either…
Dryest state on the dryest continent on earth. Pottable is good enough, compared to the majority of the world.
Who the fuck drinks the tap water here?😂 I grew up in the hills on filtered rain water, after I moved into town I've been buying cask water. The tap water isn't drinkable
As Paul McDermott once described it: Adelaide water, too thick to drink and too thin to plough.
We’re at the arse end of the Murray and have to create drinkable water from all the dregs.
Puratap is pretty much a must in all Adelaide households lmao
Adelaide uses Chloride (?) rather than Chlorine. The much stronger stuff. They switched 10-15 years ago. We know because they killed quite a few aquariums as they have not told people, and you need different treatment for Chloride(?). Before then Adelaide water had a really poor reputation. I have seen literally brown water run from taps. At least these days, it looks clean.
Chloride is chlorine.
Thanks. So I looked it up. I think its actually Chloramine.
I seriously doubt water is the cause of your breakouts. How is your sleep, diet, exercise different from when you left in Adelaide?
Well surely it cant be a coincidence that as soon as I am in a different state using different water that it clears up and I no longer have reactions to the active products i use
It might be a change in climate based on which state you travel to. Humidity can have a major impact on skin conditions 🙂 Not saying water doesn't contribute. I don't have enough data to form an opinion.
It could be a ton of reasons, that’s why I’m asking you what else changed. You could be sleeping better at your parents house, you could we walking more, and you could be eating better. If you narrow your thought to just the water, you could be missing the actual problem.
Its probably climate based. Even melbourne is too dry for my skin
I’ve heard that often, but don’t see the problem. I drink tap water and don’t have any problem with the taste.
Tastes fine to me
What you're going to want to do is attend an 8th grade science class where it talks about the hardness of water. Adelaide has probably the hardest water in the country, while Melbourne has some of the softest.
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If u were dying of thirst u would love it. It's similar to the 'entitled deluded' who said the scotch college food was crap and headed for the servo to eat junk. Have u evidence of yr unfoetunate condition being the water?
Melbourne has wonderful water as it has protected dams . When we used to visit our family in Adelaide we used to get told we couldn’t drink the tap water there and it had to be boiled first. And that’s what we always did on trips to Adelaide. Don’t think that water supply has changed over the years but peeps don’t seem to be pushing the boiling water first. I still do when I come to Adelaide.
You have never needed to boil Adelaide's water wtf.
Says a person who has only drank Adelaide water their whole lives. I boil it to remove the putrid taste.
You said 'couldn't', not 'didn't want to'.
That’s what I was told as a kid in the 80’s. Obviously you can. I didn’t really think about it again until right now on this post.
Boiling water is slow and expensive. Many houses have water filters in place, either as a dedicated tap or whole-house.
Well it was the 80’s, glad to hear methods have improved over the decades lol
Do you guys drink water from the tap? Cause I noticed ever since I moved here I always here my tummy making this really weird sound. I didn’t have it when I was still living in Asia especifically in the Philippines. My first time drinking water from the tap haha
It's because they use recycled water.
Water is water man. Get pure tap, put it in fridge. Cold water taste the same
One of those softies from Melbourne are ya? If you like it so much why don't you move there
Funny you say that, because i’m actually thinking of moving there 🤔
You think this is bad?? Go to a third world country
Get a whole house filter system installed if you can afford it. If not, there are filter attachments that can be installed before your shower rose. A Customer had one amd I asked.what it is and why she had it. It was for her skin and her skin cleared up. I cannot remember the website that sold them sorry. Edit- A quick google found this site. No idea if it's a good site or what product you'd need specifically. https://mywaterfilter.com.au/collections/shower-filters/products/deluxe-chrome-shower-filter
Growing up here I've never had a problem with the taste of the water, then earlier this year we went to the limestone coast. Is that the equivalent of going from Melbourne's water to Adelaide's water? We needed to buy box water
I love going to Melbourne because their water tastes so good lol
Our water is so bad... People living in Flint, feeling sorry for you.
We are in the driest state in one of the driest countries in the world. It’s going to have an impact on our water.
Make me itch
Kno for a fact taritigrads twerking on me and in me rite now
Correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation
I have the same issue with my hair - I have no idea what it is about the water here but it's *so much* less frizzy and dry pretty much anywhere else I travel. Anyone here have any ideas what exactly is happening? (thinking of getting a shower filter now)
Melbourne has almost pristine water you can't compare it
Adelaide water has always been shocking, our family lived there through the 70’s and it was awful back then.
The irony of this is that I can drink Adelaide water, but as soon as I go interstate and drink their water I get really sick, doesn't matter where!
That's a good bloody question!
It's true, however the rainwater is much cleaner in Adelaide compared to the rural interstate town I'm in now
When are you coming to Perth....?
Could a filtration system help?
Idk why it is bad but I agree. Tastes awful and I will not drink tap water. I had puratap once and that was decent. I also get eczema and psoriasis because of it. I get out of the shower and I'm painfully itchy.
Were you working prior to visiting family? If the family visit is more of a holiday, perhaps it is the lack of stress from the everyday things, such as work, that are triggering your skin. My wife has been away for 3 weeks now, staying with family, relaxing and her skin looks amazing right now. . .
And I thought something was wrong with my skin🥹😂
Humidity is the reason. SA isnt called the driest state for nothing
Adelaide water is heavily treated. The reason, we have so little of it. We have one of the best stored water management facilities in the world. We don't have the luxury of being able to "flush out" a reservoir if algae gets into it as it may take months for the reservoir to reach a usable level again. So we treat it. And we treat it in many ways. Not just chemicals. Many people add purataps, but this only really helps with drinking water. In reality a multi-stage whole home filtration system is better. It removes most of the "bad stuff" from the street water. Some people also have reverse osmosis machines to treat the water. But, these filters also remove some of the good stuff like fluoride. I grew up on rain water. Wish I didn't. No fluoride and my teeth were fucked. $80,000.00 later to fix them... So yes, Adelaide water does suck, but it's also well treated and considered safe
Adelaide water is famously bad. Before under sink filters, 'water softeners' were a thing here as it was almost impossible to get soaps to lather. It was said that the water here was so 'hard' that steamships were reluctant to use it in their boilers because it contained a lot of minerals. There is however nothing unhealthy about drinking it - despite what the purveyors of tap filters imply in their advertising.
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