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With respect to drinking water quality, explain why it might be advantageous to live in the city where you have city drinking water.

Conversely, explain why it might be advantageous to live outside of the city where you rely on your own well water.

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A comparison of benefits of city water versus well water is discussed. The advantageous to live outside of the city where you rely on your own well water is given.

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PROBLEM:
Drinking Water
With respect to drinking water quality, explain why it might be advantageous to live in the city where you have city drinking water.
SOLUTION:
Well, there could be two answers for this. Firstly, city drinking water are most often subject to quality testing. This is very important as businesses like food chains and restaurant just fill the cities and the government needs to monitor all the time that he quality of water is good. For example, "The Department of Environmental Protection performs more than 900 tests daily, 27,000 monthly, and 330,000 on an ...

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